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Work information
Autograph
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| Instrumental genre | Music for small orchestra |
| Place of composition | Mexico City |
| Date of composition | May 26, 1932 |
| Dedication | For Mauricio Magdaleno and Juan Bustillo |
| Premiere | August 30, 1932, Orientation Theater, Conservatory Orchestra, Cond. Silvestre Revueltas. |
| Duration | 9’ |
| Instrumentation | Picc, ob, cl[E♭], cl[B♭], bn / cor, tpt, tbn / perc / vn I, vn II, cb |
| Documentary archive | A photographic copy and a photostat of the autograph have been preserved. |
| Notes by compiler | Premiere in the U.S.A., November 4, 1932, Cond. Nicholas Slonimsky. The copy on photographic paper preserved in the archive is bound and shows signs of having been used for performance purposes (page numbering done in a hand other than the composer’s). |
| Texts by Revueltas about the works | Music of chirps, dislocated, according to respectable opinions. With a little imagination, or maybe a lot, others call it romantic. In any case, it has a clearly Mexican character. Ironic music, rough, gentle, perhaps even a little painful (to the ears?). |
| Periodical references | The archive contains a letter from Wallingford Riegger (Pan American Association of Composers), dated New York on February 12, 1934, written on behalf of Edgar Varèse. Anonymous. “Silvestre Revueltas elogiado en New York por una obra musical.” Excélsior (November 27, 1932). Kahan, Salomón. “Musica: Un aplauso y una aclaración.” El Universal Gráfico (December 12, 1933). _______. “Música: Carta abierta a Silvestre Revueltas.” El Universal Gráfico (November 3, 1933). |
| Publications | Southern Music Publishing Co. |