Artist description Ocho por Radio is a collection pieces by the innovative Mexican musician Silvestre Revueltas in a special way to be performed over live AM radio when FM radio didn't exist at all

Music Style Classical

Musical Influences European classical music from the beginning os the century

Similar Artists None

Artist History Discoveries don't come much better than this. With these and other recent releases of the music of Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas (1899-1940), a long-neglected composer is finally getting the recognition due him. And why shouldn't he? His music is extraordinarily inventive. It is modernistic, yet steeped in folklore. Within the same piece, there can be irony and tenderness, lyricism and drama, calm shores and blustery volcanoes. A bolt of furious rhythm can strike anywhere, anytime. Plagued by alcoholism in the last ten years of his life, Revueltas wasn't a prolific composer. with the energy of Mexican folk melodies. It is startling music, partly because Revueltas loves to thwart expectation. (Revueltas means "mischievous" in Spanish.) They add more layers to our impressions of this complex composer. Like his contemporary, the painter Diego Rivera, Revueltas splashes color onto a mural-sized canvas. And like Rivera, his later work embodies something larger than himself, soaring beyond the influences of his own country. Profoundly influenced by its time, Revueltas' work will endure well beyond it.

Location Chula Vista, Ca - USA

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