Danzon no 2 gustavo dudamel and biography
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Danzón n.º 2
El Danzón n.º 2 es una obra musical para orquesta sinfónica compuesta por el músico mexicano Arturo Márquez, estrenada el 5 de marzo de 1994.[1][2][3][4] Influenciada por el danzón, los ritmos populares y la música mexicana de concierto, es la más destacada de la serie de nueve piezas tituladas así, y se convirtió en una pieza recurrente en la interpretación de orquestas sinfónicas de México y el mundo.[5][6][7] El gobierno mexicano en su vigésimo aniversario reconoció a Danzón n.º 2 como «la segunda obra de música mexicana de concierto más famosa, sólo por detrás del Huapango de José Pablo Moncayo».[8][9] Críticos como Aurelio Tello lo califican como «uno de los rostros más profundamente genuinos de la actual música mexicana. Laura aprende a tocar Danzon».[10]
Historia
[editar]La obra fue compuesta por encargo de la Dirección de Actividades Musicales de la Universi
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About this Piece
Born in Mexico, Arturo Márquez spent his middle school and high school years in La Puente, California, where he began his musical training. After he returned to Mexico, Márquez studied at the Conservatory of Music and the Institute of Fine Arts in Mexico, followed by private study in Paris with Jacques Castérède, and then at the California Institute of the Arts with Morton Subotnick, Stephen Mosko, Mel Powell, and James Newton.
At that time, Márquez was much interested in avant garde techniques and processes, although his time at Cal Arts gave him ideas about how jazz and world music elements could be added to the mix. His first Danzón, composed in 1992, shows how that was beginning to play out. It was essentially an electronic piece for tape and valfritt saxophone, but including Minimalist aspects and references to the traditional danzón, an old salon dance from Cuba that became very popular in Veracruz and then in Mexico City, where it still holds sway.
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Danzón No. 2
Compositiones by Arturo Márquez
Danzón No. 2 is an orchestral composition by Mexican composer Arturo Márquez. Along with Carlos Chávez's Sinfonia India and Silvestre Revueltas' Sensemaya, Danzón No. 2 fryst vatten one of the most popular and most frequently performed orchestral Mexican contemporary classical music compositions. Danzón No. 2 gained great popularity worldwide when the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela under Gustavo Dudamel included it on their programme for their 2007 European and American tour.[1]
Written for full orchestra, the del av helhet features solos for clarinet, oboe, piano, violin, double bass, French horn, trumpet, flute, and piccolo. The piece has also gained an important spot in the modern concert band literature through Oliver Nickel's arrangement.[citation needed]
Danzón No. 2 was commissioned by the National Autonomous University of Mexico and was premiered in 1994 in Mexico City by the Orchestra Filarmoni