Río Bravo 2
DATOS
- Compositor: Gabriela Ortiz
- País: México
- Formato/s:
Trío
- Instrumentos:
Voz (mezzo),
Flauta,
6 Copas de cristal
- Año: 2010
- Descripción: Rio Bravo was born in the frontier of two cultures, two nations; Mexico and the United States of America; and also two disciplines that interact with each other; poetry and music. The poem brings alive the open wound of a city in the borderlands where women live with the constant fear of violence, where the river is the limit, the liquid wall divides the desert between two worlds. On one side, they call it Bravo, on the other Grande. Its waters reduced and quiet wash out both of its names, they run slowly, they wet backs of people who cross it trying to find a way out of abandonment. Gabriela Ortiz recreates with her music this atmosphere where feelings of desolation and hope converge. She evokes the constant coming and going of the air, those steps of fearless women, the sound of bones buried in the sand, but also the wind when it enters and cleans the dust away, the clarity of the sun. Ortiz's music, inspired in the poem, flows as an endless prayer, like a wave of melismatic singing that carries the rhythm and the gaze the eyes of the women of Ciudad Juárez. Their thoughts flowes between terror and smiles. One violin, a mezzosoprano and six cups of glass, sing the whispers of these women, the fear in their prayers, their dreams and their nightmares that lie at the foot of the borderlands . Contemporary music and ancient such as the dessert, mistic like the song of the water, Rio Bravo is the echo of voices of that arid land, that a river cuts in half like a great wall of water.
Mónica Sánchez Escuer
MÁS INFORMACIÓN
- Localización: Para solicitar la partitura, contactar directamente a la compositora a través de su e-mail: info@gabrielaortiz.com