El Stabat Mater (2005) de Mario Lavista (1943) es una de las muestras más refinadas de su producción. Leonardo Coral Facultad de Música, UNAM, 2019. Investigación analítica sobre un tema vinculado a los lenguajes actuales de la Composición. Impresionismo, música medieval y técnicas extendidas en el Stabat Mater para coro y octeto de violonchelos de Mario Lavista. Premier: June 27 in Vienna, Austria (The Vienna Summer Music Festival), PHACE Ensemble It crescendos and decrescendos until a final culmination to juxtapose moments of narrow escape with the inevitable and terrible finale of a young life cut too short. It pulls musical quotations from modern and historical pieces as well and plays those themes against each other to represent the discourse of history with the present and how our resultant collective actions and inactions have led to these events around the world. This piece was intended to be disconcerting and even harsh- to use unusual rhythmic structures to evoke anxiety and hysteria. As a consequence of this attempt at musical protest in a time of tragic loss, this music intertwines the emotion of mournfulness with those of fear, anger, horror, and dread, creating a work that bears the ugliness of our nation's current gun-financed state. In part, this piece also attempts to express the anger and contempt the composer and many others feel towards those in our society who continue to be apathetic towards gun regulation as well as those - like many of our politicians and the NRA - who happily profiteer from gun deregulation and manufacturing, murderously promoting violence in our homes, schools, nation, and world. Octet is intended to be a meditation on life from the perspective of the children living through these situations at the moment of this horrific culmination. While I cannot pretend to be able to truly empathize with the children and families directly impacted by gun violence, I feel a responsibility to speak out against these injustices with whatever means I possess. Consequently, this work is inspired by recent and ongoing tragedies such as school shootings in the United States of America and the use of child soldiers in conflicts around the world as a by-product of global violence. Link to performance recording: - "Threnody on the Death of Children" was written shortly after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school shooting in Florida this past February.
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