Name: Leo Brouwer Rito de Los Orishas i. Exordium-Conjuro by Raymond Currie in Classical guitar diversity
Duration: 4 min 16 s
Description: From my Senior Recital 2006. Played from memory.

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From my Senior Recital 2006. Played from memory.

Leo Brouwer Rito de Los Orishas i. Exordium-Conjuro

The Juilliard Orchestra
Robert Fleitz - Piano
Jeffrey Milarsky - Conductor

This piece is written in the memory of the French composer Henri Dutilleux who would have celebrated his 100th birthday at the time this piece was completed in January 2016. 

I started writing this piece in Paris in May 2013 when Dutilleux died aged 96. Dutilleux helped to shape and form my sound, taste and sense of aesthetics and for me was a symbol of French music. In deep morning I sketched the first few pages of this piece.  

In my first sketch there was no piano, and it was titled “Ascend”. Not long after I stopped working on this piece, I was too overtaken with grief, and I left Paris.  

About three years later, as his 100th birthday was nearing I decided to return to this piece and to add a piano.  

The piano for me represented the individual, a protagonist dealing with deep sorrow. A lonely voice in a world filled with voices.  

The strings start off the piece in a procession. The string writing of the first few pages is borrowing heavily from the baroque lamento, with a repeated pattern of notes that creates dissonances and resolutions and an ever descending bass.  

The piano has three main elements through-out this piece: 
*A three note motive (A-Bb-Db) which was taken from Dutilleux’s piece “The Shadows of Time”, a piece based on Anne Frank’s diary. In his piece, those three notes are sang by a child with the words “Pourquoi Nous?” – “Why us?”. 

The second element presented by the piano is a series of very quick disjunct patterns. Those patterns are supposed to represent murmuring, or crying in an onomatopoeia. 

The third and final major element is represented by thick chords played by the pianist who depict the church bells.  

As this piece is written about my grief, I thought that the Kübler-Ross model (better known as “The five stages of grief”) would be a suitable platform to shape the arc of the piece. The piece starts in Denial, goes through anger, bargaining, depression and finally concludes with acceptance.  


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Tedesco Concerto Op. 99 (live June 2006)
III. Ritmico e Cavalleresco 
W/Buffalo Philharmonic
Jo Ann Falletta, Conductor. 

Concerto for Guitar in D Major, Op. 99 III. Ritmico e Cavalleresco (LIVE)

Tarde uma nuvem rósea lenta e transparente.
Soir, un nuage rose, lent et transparent.
Sobre o espaço, sonhadora e bela!
En l'espace de rêve et de beauté!
Surge no infinito a lua docemente,
Surgit dans la lune infinie douceur,
Enfeitando a tarde, qual meiga donzela
Décoration de l'après-midi comme une jeune fille belle
Que se apresta e a linda sonhadoramente,
Qui se précipite et rêveur
Em anseios d'alma para ficar bela
Dans désirs de l'âme pour devenir belle
Grita ao céu e a terra toda a Natureza!
Cris vers le ciel et la terre toute la nature!
Cala a passarada aos seus tristes queixumes
Les oiseaux se taisent à son triste gémissements
E reflete o mar toda a Sua riqueza...
Et la mer reflète sa richesse ...
Suave a luz da lua desperta agora
Douce lumière de la lune se réveille
A cruel saudade que ri e chora!
Les personnes portées disparues cruel qui rit et pleure!
Tarde uma nuvem rósea lenta e transparente
Soir, un nuage rose, lent et transparent
Sobre o espaço, sonhadora e bela!
En l'espace de rêve et de beauté!

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Classical guitarist, classical music ambassador-
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Leo Brouwer Rito de Los Orishas i. Exordium-Conjuro

Raymond Currie

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