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2 results
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A Conga-Line in Hell
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Composer:
Miguel del Aguila
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Duration: 11:00
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Instrumentation: 1-1-1-1; 1-1-1-1; hp-pf-perc; solo str
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Duration: 11:00
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Instrumentation: fl, cl, pf, hp, perc, 8 vc
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"Conga-Line in Hell" began in my imagination as the visual image of an endless line of dead people dancing through the fire of hell. I gradually started hearing the music, and Dante's Paolo and Francesca da Rimini story soon became part of the scene. This inferno is humorous, sarcastic, grotesque and at times also terrifying. I rely mainly on the dramatic and expressive qualities of rhythm to convey the evil forces that govern my imaginary hell. As thematic material I primarily use rhythmic claves (Spanish for clef or key) as they are used in Latin American music: a sort of 'rhythmic tonality' to which harmony and melody must conform. The rhythmic pattern of the conga dance beats throughout the piece and is at times distorted into a 13/16 pattern. It employs unusual percussion, unusual rhythmic structures and instruments are often playing at their most extreme registers. The piano is used 'obbligato' as a sort of metronome, very much like the harpsichord of the old Baroque times. -- Miguel del Aguila |
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1 result
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Ave Maria
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Composer:
Miguel del Aguila
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Duration: 3:30
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Instrumentation: treble chorus (SA), pf (or hp)
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Contents: adapted from a section of del Aguila’s Choral Suite from the Opera “Time and Again Barelas,” for mixed chorus and orchestra
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1 result
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Back in Time
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Composer:
Miguel del Aguila
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Instrumentation: orch
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1 result
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Caribbean Bacchanal
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Composer:
Miguel del Aguila
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Duration: 15:00
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Instrumentation: 3(pic)-1-2-A sax,T sax,Bar sax-2(cbn); 4-3-3-1; 5-7 perc-banjo-ped; str min 8-6-6-6-6 (2 db are 5-stringed)
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Percussion: claves,cabaza,cowb,hihat,3 bongo,3 conga,sus cym,chimes,3 wdblk,splash cym,police whistle,2 timb,4 timp,xyl,tamb,glock,reco-reco,4 tom,cr cym,tamt,thun sheet, tri,b dr,sn dr,gong,siren
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1 result
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Clocks
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Composer:
Miguel del Aguila
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Date: 1998
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Duration: 20:00
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Instrumentation: piano quartet (pf, 2vn, va, vc)
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Contents: 1. Shelves Full of Clocks
2. Midnight Strikes
3. The Old Clock's Story
4. Sundial 2000 BC
5. Romance of the Swiss Clock
6. The Joy of Keeping Time
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1 result
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Concerto for Clarinet and 15 Instruments
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Composer:
Miguel del Aguila
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Duration: 20:00
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Instrumentation: Cl solo; 1-1-1-1; 1-1-1-1; piano, 2 perc; str (1 ea. of vn, va, vc, db)
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Percussion: 1:tamb,mil dr,timp,b dr,tri,sus cym,crash cym,tamt 2: glock,xyl,2 tomt,pea whistle,2 mcas,tub bells,4 temple blk
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1 result
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Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra
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Composer:
Miguel del Aguila
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Duration: 20:00
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Instrumentation: Cl solo; 1-1-1-1; 1-1-1-1;pf-2 perc; str
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Percussion: tamb,mil dr,tim,b dr,tri,sus cym,cym,tamt,glock,xyl,tomt,pea whistle,mar,tub bells,temp blks
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1 result
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Conga for Orchestra
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Composer:
Miguel del Aguila
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Date: 1994
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Duration: 11:00
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Instrumentation: 2(pic)-2-2-2; 3-2-2-1; hp-pf-5 perc; str
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Contents: Orchestral arrangement by the composer of "A Conga-Line in Hell".
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"Conga-Line in Hell" began in my imagination as the visual image of an endless line of dead people dancing through the fire of hell. I gradually started hearing the music, and Dante's Paolo and Francesca da Rimini story soon became part of the scene. This inferno is humorous, sarcastic, grotesque and at times also terrifying. I rely mainly on the dramatic and expressive qualities of rhythm to convey the evil forces that govern my imaginary hell. As thematic material I primarily use rhythmic claves (Spanish for clef or key) as they are used in Latin American music: a sort of 'rhythmic tonality' to which harmony and melody must conform. The rhythmic pattern of the conga dance beats throughout the piece and is at times distorted into a 13/16 pattern. It employs unusual percussion, unusual rhythmic structures and instruments are often playing at their most extreme registers. The piano is used 'obbligato' as a sort of metronome, very much like the harpsichord of the old Baroque times. -- Miguel del Aguila
REVIEWS: A "delicious send-up of Minimalism. Here, sequences in stepwise motion career out of control, a comic device Haydn also used to wonderful effect." -- Bernard Holland, The New York Times
"[It] sounds, at first, like idiosyncratic pop, and it touches on jazz and salsa before morphing briefly into a slow, lush Viennese dance, then back to speedy jazz." -- Allan Kozinn, he New York Times.. |
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1 result
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Conga for piano
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Composer:
Miguel del Aguila
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Duration: 11;00
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Instrumentation: pf
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1 result
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Herbsttag
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Composer:
Miguel del Aguila
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Instrumentation: fl,bn,hp
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Theme:
The Seasons
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"Herbsttag" (Autumn Day), a trio for flute, bassoon and harp, has the quality of an impressionistic intermezzo.
This impressionistic intermezzo, written in 1986 and premiered in Vienna in 1987, was inspired by the poem of the same name by Rainer Maria Rilke that begins:
Lord: it is time.
The summer was very big.
Lay your shadow on the sundials,
and let loose the winds on the meadows.
The composer writes: "It is the atmosphere and the mood of loneliness and existential drama of the poem that I tried to recreate in my music." |
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2 results
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Hexen
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Composer:
Miguel del Aguila
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Duration: 12:00
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Instrumentation: Solo bn, str orch
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Theme:
Heroes and Villains
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Duration: 12:00
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Instrumentation: Bn, pf
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Theme:
Heroes and Villains
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1 result
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Life is a Dream
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Composer:
Miguel del Aguila
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Date: 2002
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Duration: 11:00
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Instrumentation: 2 vn, va, vc
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1 result
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Pacific Serenade
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Composer:
Miguel del Aguila
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Duration: 10:00
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Instrumentation: cl, str qrt
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Written in 1998, Pacific Serenade is a “peaceful serenade:” serenade as in: romantic, quasi improvised music which should be sung at night under the stars. The main “singer” here is the clarinet. In general the music is extremely quiet, delicate, sensuous and sentimental. The sensuousness is created by Latin song elements especially the nostalgic Brazilian folk song, which is at times combined with Blues style melody and harmony. The string quartet has a technically expressively challenging part which is not merely the accompaniment to the clarinet, but rather it is responsible for setting the mood in which the clarinet sings.
This is Aguila’s opus 59 and it was commissioned by Pacific Serenades Ensemble of California who premiered the work in 1998. Of course the ensemble's name inspired the name of this work as well as its mood.
In an age of boom boxes, media bombardment of information and pop culture becoming increasingly aggressive, boisterous and violent, I felt the need to write just the opposite… to show once more that less is more.
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1 result
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Piano Concerto
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Composer:
Miguel del Aguila
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Date: 1997
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Duration: 26:00
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Instrumentation: pf solo; 2(pic)/2(ehn)/2(b cl)/2(c bsn); 2/2/2/1; 2 perc; str
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Commission: New West Symphony Orchestra, and Newton Friedman and Vonise Friedman
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Premiere: November 21, and 22 1997 in Oxnard and Thousand Oaks, CA
Boris Brott, Conductor; Miguel del Aguila, soloist
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1 result
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Presto II
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Composer:
Miguel del Aguila
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Duration: 4:45
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Instrumentation: 2 vn, va, vc
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1 result
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Requiem
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Composer:
Miguel del Aguila
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Duration: 50:00
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Instrumentation: S, A, T soli; SATB cho; org, perc; timp
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Percussion: tri,sus cym,tamt,tamb,2 ch,sn dr,b dr
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1 result
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Rondo Roto
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Composer:
Miguel del Aguila
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Date: 2010
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Instrumentation: Ehn solo; pic,0-0-1-1; 2-0-0-0; timp-perc-hp; str
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Percussion: crot,susp cym,trgl,tamb,maracas,b dr
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2 results
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Salon Buenos Aires
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Composer:
Miguel del Aguila
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Instrumentation: 2-2-2-2; 2-2-1-0; timp-2 perc-hp-pf(cel); str
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Percussion: glck, vib, xyl, susp cym(2), mar, b dr, trgl, tamt, cwbl, timb, reco, agog, samba whstl, wnd mchn
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Instrumentation: fl, cl, pf, vn, va, vc
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1 result
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Sonata No. 2
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Composer:
Miguel del Aguila
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Duration: 15:00
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Instrumentation: pf
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1 result
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The Fall of Cuzco
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Composer:
Miguel del Aguila
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Date: 2009
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Duration: 20:00
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Instrumentation: pic,2-3-3-3; 4-3-3-1; timp-4 perc-hp-cel(pf)-str
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Percussion: crot,chi,trgl,sleighbells,cwbl(sm),whp,susp cym,hi-hat,cr cym,cast,claves,tamb,b dr,ratch,tblk,wdblk,s dr
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1 result
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The Giant Guitar
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Composer:
Miguel del Aguila
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Duration: 6:00
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Instrumentation: 3-3-3-3; 4-3-3-1; timp-3 perc; str
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Commission: WNED Radio, Buffalo and the 2nd JoAnn Falletta International Guitar Festival.
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Premiere: June 2006, Buffalo Philharmonic conducted by JoAnn Falletta.
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Theme:
Latin Americana
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Having lived the first twenty years of my life in South America I can't think of a guitar without associating its music to my early memories. I often view South America as a "giant guitar" ... friendly, sentimental, nostalgic, and yet concealing a great powerful secret, only suggested by occasional "rasqueado" chords or historical revolutions. Unfortunately, I can't think of this "giant guitar" without remembering conflict and the dramatic political events of the 1970's. Thus this work starts in a somewhat nostalgic mood, beginning with a theme based on the six open strings of the guitar (E A D G B E). After these few introductory bars the flutes re-introduce the guitar theme now in a very rhythmic pattern resembling an Inca-Andean flute chant. The strings accompany the melody through rhythmically complex pizzicati, imitating a giant guitar or South American charango. The drama begins almost unnoticed as the originally delicately strummed chords turn into violent bass drum and timpani hits. A final chord, a third higher then the rest of the piece, offers a last note of defiance as it confronts a police siren, only to be quickly crushed by the overwhelming percussion.
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2 results
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Toccata
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Composer:
Miguel del Aguila
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Duration: 7:00
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Instrumentation: 1(pic)-1-1-1; 2-1-1-1; pf-6 perc; str
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Percussion: 1: 3 timp,reco-reco 2:bongo,conga, sus cym 3: agogo bells,bs dr,2 tomt,temple blk 4: ch,2 bottles,high-hat,tri, sn dr 5: xyl,marac,syms,tamt,siren 6:glk,wdblk,tamb,cyms
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Theme:
Concert Openers, Latin Americana
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Duration: 7:00
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Instrumentation: pf
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Theme:
Concert Openers, Latin Americana
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1 result
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Violin Concerto
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Composer:
Miguel del Aguila
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Date: 2007
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Instrumentation: Vn solo; 2-2-2-2; 4-2-3-0; timp-3perc-hp-cel; str
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Percussion: glck,chi,xyl,tam,crot,trgl,wdblk,claves,wndchimes,susp cym,cast,s dr,maracas,tamb,b dr
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1 result
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Wind Quintet No. 2
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Composer:
Miguel del Aguila
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Duration: 26:00
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Instrumentation: ww qnt
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Commission: The Bach Camerata
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Premiere: 25 Jan 1995; The Bach Camerata; Music Academy of the West, Santa Barbara, CA
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