MP3 Sergio Cervetti - Visual Diary/The Mouth of Boredom

Alternative, Electronic, Contemporary classical

14 MP3 Songs in this album (66:02) !
Related styles: NEW AGE: Neo-Classical, CLASSICAL: Minimalism



Details:
Sergio Cervetti, born in Uruguay and a U.S. citizen since 1979, is a composer whose works include electronic, instrumental and vocal music. He graduated from Peabody Institute after studying with Ernst Krenek, Lazlo Halasz, and Stefan Grové. He went on to win the Caracas Festival prize and was subsequently invited by the DAAD to be composer-in-residence in Berlin. After moving to New York City he taught at Brooklyn College, worked for Virgil Thomson, and studied electronic music with Vladimir Ussachevsky at Columbia University. Cervetti joined the faculty of New York Universityâs Tisch School of the Arts in 1972 where he taught history of music, composition and choreography until 1997 and returned in 2007-08.

Cervettiâs vocabulary draws from an early brush with twelve-tone and minimalism while his current approach is free and flexible. Each work is treated in an individual manner and may often reflect his South American, French and Italian heritage. A review of Concerto for Harpsichord aptly describes his style which ââ¦does not make a distinction between folk elements, European tradition and minimalist aesthetics; they are all fearlessly and deftly blended together in a music that defies any classification.â âRitmo Magazine, Spain

Noted works include:
Guitar Music: Bottom of the Iceberg, a minimalist solo guitar piece â⦠is one of the most effective works in this style.â âLos Angeles Times

The Hay Wain, an electronic work inspired by the Hieronymus Bosch triptych. Sections are used in the soundtrack of Oliver Stoneâs film, Natural Born Killers. âThe Hay Wain is a substantial recording, noteworthy in the sea of fluff that passes for electronic music these days.â âOption Magazine

â¦from the earth⦠is a controlled improvisation for a variable number of sustaining instruments which borrows five notes from Mahlerâs Das Lied Von Der Erde.

Elegy For A Prince, opera in two acts based on Oscar Wildeâs The Happy Prince, libretto by Elizabeth Esris. Premiered in excerpt by New York City Opera at VOX 2007: Showcasing American Composers. Funded
in part by American Music Center's Composer Assistance Program.

Madrigal III, for two sopranos and chamber ensemble with a text by 15th century Aztec poet, Nexahualcoyotl, ruminating on lifeâs transient brevity.

Candombe II, for orchestra; the orchestrated version of Candombe for harpsichord with rhythms based on a national dance of Uruguay with African origins.

3 Estudios Australes, for piano ââ¦is a contemporary distillation of the piano works of Liszt and Ravel without any of the acidities of contemporary piano music and without sounding like a dry exerciseâ¦a language that is direct and full of virtuosity.â âEl Pais, Montevideo, Uruguay

YUM!, chamber opera in one act for three voices and chamber ensemble with an original libretto by Elizabeth Esris described as a culinary comedy.

Plexus, for orchestra is ââ¦the eveningâs great findâ¦gives further evidence of Cervettiâs unusually discerning ear, his strong sense of both fantasy and orderâ¦a range of sonorities that are truly novel and genuinely intriguing.â âWashington Post