Blog 2 - My last concert was my last premiere

 

in january of this year I went to my last concert. It was the “contemporary music festival of the university of chile”. There was the premiere of my work for piano and voice: 7 temples (seven moods). Other composers also presented, some with a lot of experience, other students. My work was the first to present and lasted 25 minutes. It was a very long time! But the twenty minutes almost hardly felt. Each musical peace of this work evoked different moods. For example, the first peace evoked expectation, the second piece fear and tension, the third piece homesickness, the fourth piece irony, the fifth piece temperance, the sixth piece anxiety and the last piece rage. Afterwards some commented their appreciations. They told me that my work made a great impression on them and they felt identified with “the moods” that were suggested. It was really an existential experience to all of them. I remember the last compass where Carolina (soprano singer) screamed euphorically with all her soul. That last moment was very shocking.