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Manly Romero
Manly Romero
Born in San Francisco in 1966, Romero began his musical career as a bassoonist and pianist, later moving on to composition studies at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and the University of Michigan.
Manly Romero's works are predominantly concerned with spirituality, spiritual transformation,
self-knowledge, and with finding one's place in society.
Pieces which begin illustratively, such as his string
quartet Cityscape or his saxophone sonata Snowfall on Long Island Sound, (both soon to be added to this site) expand to examine the
emotional and spiritual states and transformations which occur in specific places, or as a result of specific
relationships between the individual and society.
Other works, such as his piano concerto Spirals and his song cycle In Search of Eldorado, are about inner growth through reflection on tradition, or through contemplation of the divine. (Click on hyperlinks below to hear these works.)
With funding from the New York Foundation of the Arts, Romero will present recitals of his work in San Francisco, Manhattan, and New Rochelle in early 2001. Please send an e-mail (click on the "Contact" tab above) if you'd like to receive an announcement for any of these events!
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| Performed by soloist Robert Schwartz, and conducted by Jose Luis Moscovich. The title is reflected in this composition on several levels. Most easily heard, the opening motif and the overall form of the work are both based on spirals. The work also moves in an ever-expanding spiral shape, temporally, through citation and reference to works by masters of the pianistic tradition--including a direct quotation from a well-known prelude by Chopin. |
CD: San Francisco Camerata Americana
Label: Klavier Gold Edition
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| Description: Jennifer Goltz, soprano; David Schober, piano. In this, the first setting of four Edgar Allan Poe poems in the cycle "In Search of Eldorado," Poe examines 'The End of Everything.' He portrays a timeless city, which possesses characteristics of, but actually is neither heaven nor hell, as it sinks beneath a rising sea. The vague sense of ever-increasing anxiety, and the ceaseless succession of nightmarish images, highlights our fears of death, mortality, and the question of the afterlife. | |
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| Jennifer Goltz, soprano; David Schober, piano.The third song of four in a cycle of songs using poems by Edgar Allan Poe as texts. In "A Dream within a Dream," the vague fears and apprehensions of the previous two songs ("The City in the Sea" and "Eldorado") are focused into a questioning, then an angry confrontation of the necessity of mortality. | |
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