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Mexican Dance
Silvestre Revueltas (arr. Erich Kleiber; trans. José Serebrier)
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General Info
Year: 1935 / 1946 / 2003
Duration: c. 3:45
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Orchestra
Publisher: Peer Music Classical
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - Rental | Score Only (print) - $19.95;
Instrumentation
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Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Conductor, composer, and transcriber José Serebrier writes:
Silvestre Revueltas composed the music to ten Mexican films, the first of which was a documentary called Redes (Nets). The film was a moving social commentary on the economic victimization of poor Mexican fisherman in the 1930s. It was co-directed by Emilio Gomez Muriel and by the Austrian Fred Zinnemann, who later rose to fame in Hollywood as the director of the classic films High Noon and From Here to Eternity. In 1946, the great conductor Erich Kleiber made a symphonic suite based on the music from Redes.
I became intimately familiar with this music through Kleiber’s compilation, and performed it throughout the world. There is a brief but striking passage toward the end of the first part of the suite that in the film accompanies a scene in which the desperate fishermen make a large catch after an extended period of netting very few fish. I extracted this colorful music from the suite and expanded it to create an independent piece for wind band, my first foray into the medium, and titled it Mexican Dance.
- Program Note from Kent Wind Ensemble concert program, 22 February 2018
Commercial Discography
- Audio CD: U.S. Marine Band (Michael J. Colburn, conductor) - 2008
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Kent State (Ohio) Wind Ensemble (Jesse Leyva, conductor) – 18 February 2018
- Kent State University (Kent, Ohio) Wind Ensemble (Jesse Leyva, conductor) – 22 February 2018 (CBDNA 2018 North Central Conference, Kalamazoo, Mich.)
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Caminos (tr. Nefs) (1934/2018)
- Falla J. Pau
- Homenaje a Federico García Lorca (1936/1958)
- Homenaje a Federico García Lorca (arr. Toussaint) (1936/)
- La Noche des Mayas
- Mexican Dance (arr. Kleiber/trans. Serebrier) (1935/1946/2003)
- Redes (arr. Osmon)
- Second Little Serious Piece
- Sensemayá (tr. Bencriscutto) (1938/1980)
- Tres Sonetos (1938/1974)
- Toccata
Resources
- Revueltas, S.; Serebrier, J. (2003). Mexican Dance: For Concert Band [score]. Peermusic Classical: Hamburg.