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Huapango!

29 June 2012

If you did a Google search today, you might have caught the homage to Mexican composer José Pablo Moncayo, who was born 29 June 1912 in Guadalajara.  One of the essential Mexican composers of the past century, Moncayo’s compositions are considered ” the most important legacies of the Mexican nationalism in art music.”  A student of Carlos Chavez’s experimental National Conservatory composition program (to whom Salvador Novo taught literature and the unlikely figure of Augusín Lara lectured on world history), when the experiment was canceled by Lazaro Cardenas, young Moncayo was sometimes criticized in the press as a “Chavista”.

So who better to play the music of a Carlos Chavista than a presumed Hugo Chavista…  Maestro Gustavo Dudamel and the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar of Venezeula with Moncayo’s Huapango.

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