EL ABASTO

for Symphony Orchestra

Duration: 4 minutes

This piece expresses my need to reconnect with the music of not only of my country and my city, but of my own personal history as well. The music that has surrounded me as an Argentine and as a Buenos Aires native since my childhood. The music that played on the kitchen radio where my father spent every Sunday morning cooking for the family until noon.

The intention is to address one of the distinctive styles of typical Argentine tango, without presuming stylistic purity, but allowing the mixture of this style with symphonic music, using tonal harmonies that are developed from a more contemporary perspective. A fusion among many other possible ones.

Dedicated to my dad, who surely would have enjoyed it very much.

Instrumentation: 2 – 2 – 2 – 2 ; 4 – 3 – 2 – 1 ; timp + 4, hp, strings

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