Mexico City

December 1931

For Ángela

November 4, 1932, Hidalgo Theater, Symphony Orchestra of Mexico, Cond. Silvestre Revueltas.

8’

Picc, 2fl, 2ob, eh, cl[E♭], 2cl[B♭], bcl, 2bn / 4cor, 4tpt, 3tbn, tba / timp, percs / strings

The autograph has been preserved.

Windows is music without a program. Perhaps in writing this work I thought to express some clear idea or other. Now, writing it several months later, I can’t remember what that was. The name means nothing; it could be called “stars” or anything else. (It all depends on the listener’s good or bad wishes.) A window never offers a fertile literary theme to satisfy the tastes of people who can’t understand or listen to music without a program, without inventing something more or less disagreeable. Fortunately, I’m not a man of letters. I am a musician with technique and without inspiration. (Quoted in Manuel Reyes Meave, “Psicobiología de Silvestre Revueltas,” in Nuestra música 1952, 173–187.

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Kahan, Salomón. “Impresiones musicales: La carcajada simbólica.” El Universal Gráfico (November 8, 1932).
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