Dwayne Milbourn – Elegy 🎻 | Guerra String Orchestra 🎶, Yalil Guerra 👨‍🎼

Описание: Dwayne Milbourn: Elegy, performed by the Guerra String Orchestra, Yalil Guerra, conductor.

About the Composition:
"Elegy" for String Orchestra, was commissioned in 2021 by the Arnold O. Beckman High School String Orchestra, Irvine, CA. Jim Kollias, director of the ensemble wanted a piece to reflect our gradual emergence from the pandemic. The piece unfolds as a series of duets, symbolizing the desire of people to come together during the pandemic, even as keeping one’s distance was important to their health. Each duet begins a major or minor second apart. The stacking of these seconds builds harmonies that are alternately consonant and dissonant, major and minor, as a reflection of the turmoil the pandemic brought to so ma-ny people. The resolution into octaves represents the continued hope that society can come together to forge a more unified approach to all all the issues that confront humanity.

A heartfelt thank you to all the talented GSO musicians: Angela Amirian, Inna Karsheva-Tillman, Amy Tang, Wendy Waggener, Lily Fang, Marlene Gentile, Alejandro Junco Romero, Xochitl Martinez, Frank Fang, I-Ting Huang, Alejandra Moreno, Natalie Brejcha, Masiel Medina, Anne Tribble Sherrill, Rebecca Yeh, and Julian Lampert.

I also want to express my gratitude to the generous sponsors and private donors who made this concert possible, they are: Cafe La Llave, Paul Diaz Insurance Agency, Inc., Monteverde Pens USA, Porto's Bakery, El Sabor de Yamila Cuban Food, Yamila Guerra and Yalil Guerra Orchestra Latin Band, and Mojave Audio. Grateful to Yadelia Leyva, Bertica Fernandez, Aida Gaona, Veronika Krausas, Emily An, and Maria Isabel Nemer for their contributions. A big thank to recording engineer John Nuss.

Many thanks to Father Marcos González, Steven Ottományi, Justin Senneff, and all the St. Andrew Catholic Church staff for their support!

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