Klarinet Archive - Posting 001520.txt from 1999/01

From: "Jorge Montilla" <jomonja@-----.ve>
Subj: [kl] Triangulo Ensemble!!
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 07:24:34 -0500

Dear Friends:
for you information, edification and use, here go Triángulo's latest
reviews
from our recent tour of Kansas and Washington DC (Kennedy Center Terrace
Theater), in text form.

===============================LAWRENCE JOURNAL-WORLD
Lawrence, Kansas 1/25/99

Triangulo gives tremendous performance

BY JAN BILES Journal-World Arts Editor
Triangulo is billed as a chamber ensemble that imbues its music with Latin
rhythms. Well, that's like saying George Clinton knows how to play funk.
In both cases, the musicians create and pump blood through their art form.
The music takes on a life of its ownl and then interacts with the audience
from the first note to the last.
Triángulo – the Grammy Award-winning clarinetist Paquito D'Rivera, cellist
Gustavo Tavares and pianist Pablo Zinger– added zing to the Lied Center's
chamber music series Sunday afternoon when they delivered a two-hour
concert
that left the audience entertained and awestruck.
Opening with Ignacio Cervantes "Suite de Danzas Cubanas," the trio set
the
tone for what was to follow: impeccable precision in playing, brisk
interplay
among instruments and powerful rhythms laid over classical structures.
"Trio de las Serranias," by Angel Lasala, allowed the trio to use their
instruments to paint a lyrical picture of the Argentine countryside waking
up
at dawn. Its second movement took a somber, syncopated tone, with a
sustained
note from D'Rivera's clarinet signaling the end of the day. The work's
final
movernent, "Fiesta," was just that, a party melody accented with piercing
sounds from the clarinet.
"Homenagem a Pixinguinha," by Alfredo Da Rocha Vianna Junior, gave the
trio
the opportunity to showcase its virtuosity with the composition's
continuous
string of 16th-notes. The work, saturated in Latin blues-jazz, ended with a
jubilant, near frenetic flurry of notes, written by the composer to mark
Brazil's victory over Uruguay in a soccer game.
Zinger said during the concert that Triángulo refuses to be pigeonholed
into playing only one type of music. Instead, they embrace all forms of
music.
And in return, their audiences embrace them.

– Jan Biles' phone message number is 832-7146. Her e-mail address is
jbiles@-----.
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The Washington Post
Thursday, January 28, 1999
Delightful D'Rivera

Celebrated for smoldering Latin jazz (he won a Grammy Award in 1997),
Paquito
D'Rivera was a child prodigy nurtured on classical music in Havana. Tuesday
at
the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater, he appeared as clarinetist with pianist
Pablo Zinger and cellist Gustavo Tavares in a program aptly titled "Chamber
Music From the South"–music geographically way south of powdered wig
country
and its European tradition, but a kissing cousin of our own American jazz
tradition.
Ignacio Cervantes Kawanagh's "Suite de Danzas Cubanas" comprises
beautifully melodic piano pieces arranged for trio by Zinger; their
rhythmic
underpinnings were startlingly reminiscent of ragtime. If the added
lyricism
of clarinet and cello seemed more engrafted than necessary, the syncopated
fragrance of the music wafted gently and charmingly. Angel Lasala's "Trío
de
las Serranias"was brighter and better than lounge music, but had that feel
until the rollicking third-movement "Fiesta."
Yeasty "Chorinhos" by Pixinguinha (a Brazilian composer) and dance
derived,
astringent works by D'Rivera himself were followed by Astor Piazzolla's
"Milonga y Tangos." Piazzolla was born in Argentina but grew up in New
York,
and used tango rhythms to forge wildly disparate sources (Klezmer, jazz,
classical, Latin, pop) into uniquely personal statements. If played
idiomatically, the music is affecting in mysterious ways that elude prose
approximations, and D'Rivera, Zinger and Tavares delivered every jolt and
shudder of its abundant energy. --Ronald Broun

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Lic. Jorge Montilla
Artistical Conductor and
Representative of the
CARACAS CLARINET QUARTET
http://www.caracasclarinetquartet.com
Tel & Fax: 58-(0)2-3725509
Cellular: 58-(0)14-9295256
E-mail: jomonja@-----.ve

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