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Salvador Torre
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The Gregg Smith Singers
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Recorded, New York 1995
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Salvador Torré
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Salvador Torré
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General Information
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Testimonial for mixed choir
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| Alternative. Title
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Testimonial for 12 voices
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| Composer
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Torre, Salvador
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| I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.
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IST 75
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| Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.
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1990
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| First Performance.
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1995 The Gregg Smith Singers
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| Librettist
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Oliverio Girondo
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| Language
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Spanish
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| Average DurationAvg. Duration
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10 min.
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| Composer Time PeriodComp. Period
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Modern
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| Piece Style
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Modern
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| Instrumentation
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mixed choir
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TESTIMONIAL
For a long time I was looking for a text who describe the city, any city, in its raw appearance, stressful, overwhelming human agglomerations, the explosion in the modern world, in a word the contradictions of a city. Until I found the wonderful text that the argentinian poet Oliverio Girondo was turning 50 years ago (1942) he had written TESTIMONIAL as current as today, a poem full of images that are perfectly suited to the text I was looking for.
More than one set to music, this piece is a set in sounds, start in which the sprechgesang is used to give color to speech. This piece is closer to the coral poetry about the recitation of the text, it does it in the sense that the talk is slightly colored by the sound. Rhythmically, the play of voices unfold the text and its meaning through and overlapping echoes in different degrees.
TESTIMONIAL
Desde hacía mucho tiempo estaba buscando un texto que describiera a la ciudad, cualquier ciudad, en su aspecto crudo, estresante, lo desbordante de las aglomeraciones humanas, lo vertiginoso del mundo moderno, en una palabra lo contradictorio de una ciudad. Hasta que encontré el magnífico texto de Oliverio Girando que hacía 50 años (1942) había escrito Testimonial, tan actual como hoy, un poema lleno de imágenes que se adaptaba perfectamente al texto que estaba buscando. Mas que una puesta en música, esta pieza es una puesta en sonido en la que el sprechgesang es utilizado para dar color al habla. Esta pieza se encuentra mas cerca de la poesia coral en cuanto a la recitación del texto, pero se aleja de ésta en el sentido de que lo hablado es ligeramente coloreado por el canto. Rítmicamente, el juego de las voces desdobla el texto y su significado por medio de ecos y superposiciones en diferentes grados.
