Chamamé para orquestra de cordas (Catarina Domenici) XXV Bienal de Música Brasileira Contemporânea

Chamamé para orquestra de cordas de Catarina Domenici. Orquestra de Cordas de Volta Redonda Regência: Sarah Higino Gravação ao vivo do concerto de abertura da XXV Bienal de Música Brasileira Contemporânea Sala Cecília Meireles, Rio de Janeiro, 11 de dezembro de 2023. Remasterização do áudio original: James Correa I composed Chamamé in 2021 as part of a commission from a string orchestra project which was halted due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The inspiration for the piece came, in part, from the initial project's request for a Brazilian dance piece. The other inspirational element was political. Researching about the body in classical music performance, I came across a review of the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra concert at the BBC PROMS in 2007, in which the body suddenly became visible to the music critic in the two non-canonical works written by two Latin-American composers. By linking the visibility of the body to a perceived lack of musical quality, the British music critic not only