rss feedLeonard Bernstein: Mambo (Venezuelan Youth Orch)
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You won’t need your coffee today after listening to this one. Simon Rattle commented in a BBC.co article that Venezuelan youth orchestras were doing the most important work in classical music anywhere in the world. After watching this, you’ll agree. Wow!
[Thanks to Frank Heuser]
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* interspersed with the 2,4,6 afterbeats at that.
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That is terrific. As Thelonious is heard to say iirc at the end of Crepuscule with Nellie, on the Criss-Cross album:
“That’s wild, man”.
And that excerpt is, I think, also the most rhythmically challenging part of West Side Story. And this from someone who had to play the 6/8 signature 2,3 and 5,6 afterbeats in a junior high school arrangement of “America”.
I hope Chavez doesn’t get away with taking undue credit for this