Listening for Latin America in Álta
Voz:
by Marc Gidal - Ethnomusicologist (Ph.D. Harvard University)
"A Latin American Composers Consortium in the U.S.Álta
voz (“loud speaker, loud voice”) is a consortium
of five art-music composers – Jorge Villavicencio Grossman, Pedro Malpica,
Mauricio Pauly, José Luis Hurtado, and Felipe Lara – from Brazil,
Peru, Costa Rica, and Mexico. Having become friends in Boston while earning
graduate degrees in composition, they decided to co-produce concerts of their
music and thereafter formed the organization with an advisory board consisting
of their composition teachers and a few more established Latin American composers
in the U.S.: Mario Davidovsky, John McDonald, Theodore Antoniou, Lukas Foss,
Tania León, and Carlos Sánchez Gutiérrez..."
