🎶 Latin American Music Challenge | Week 4

Steve PriceNicely played Steve!  Great mood created!

Dale Needles Thanks, Dale. I think haunting is the right word. I couldn't make sense of Brouwer's take on the poem until I learned about the context of the tragedy of Hernández's life. The main phrase gradually shortens throughout the piece, until it's only a single measure ending on the "wrong" note, all of which really brings that haunting feeling out I think. This has been a really enjoyable challenge.

Lars Kjøller-Hansen Thanks a lot, Lars. Glad to send you happily down memory lane, lol. I know you meant Steve Howe, but Steve Morse had the solo piece Modoc, so he fits right in with the others (I've always thought Morse was tremendously underappreciated and should be up there among the greats). 

Palmer beautifully played. It sounded very sweet, the melody and your phrasing were great. Thanks for sharing.

Steve Price That's a sparse sounding yet dramatic piece and you've brought them out beautifully. Providing a background or story to pieces is so helpful in appreciating and understanding them even more. 

It sounds like even through despair and sadness, Hernandez is somehow telling his wife to be strong or carry on.

joosje Thanks so much, Joosje. I love reading too, so I especially like guitar music inspired by poems, books, and writers, which people like Brouwer, Kruisbrink, Lovelady, and others do quite a bit. It's interesting to try to connect the two.  

Blaise Laflamme Thanks, Blaise. I really like the whole set, and I think I should be able to get the entire thing down at some point. The roughest spot will be number 4, which is a rondo, and one of the couplets is a nightmare, lol. Thanks again. 

Blaise Laflamme Agreed! But those 16th notes at tempo is the most difficult passage in the entire set. It will take some time, but I think it will happen.