Posted by Michael Eastep on July 02, 2002 at 03:46:27:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Sensamaya' posted by BP on July 01, 2002 at 23:31:09:
I agree entirely with the other poster, who thought it would be valuable for tubists to hear the approach taken by a superb musician who happens to play the cello. When we have options, we should not limit ourselves to other tubists as our musical models. The music of Revueltas is important to tubists, as he created a number of exceptional parts in his orchestral and chamber music writing. He is something of a national hero in Mexico, as he was admired for his (communist) political ideas as well as his music. Although he did some study in Chicago in the 1920s, I think his model for his tuba writing was the sort of things he heard players doing in brass bands in Mexican villages. Sensamaya' is a late piece, based on a poem by an Afro-Cuban poet named Guillen depicting the ritual killing of a snake. The regular accent on the last eigth-note of the 7/8 bars comes directly from the accents of the poem.