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Brent Heisinger

Nubes Aztecas (Invocación y Canto)  Play

Kathleen Kasdoff Soprano
Chris Fernandez Tenor
The Coral Project Chorale
Daniel Hughes Conductor

Recorded on 01/01/2006, uploaded on 05/01/2010

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Nubes Aztecas (Invocación y Canto)       Brent Heisinger

Commissioned by Daniel Hughes, director of the Choral Project, Nubes is an a capella work based on ideas from Aztec poetry and musical practices sung in Spanish and English. Two texts are used:  an anonymous Aztec poem Ode to King Totoquihautzin, and Snake Wheel by contemporary poet Francisco X. Alarcon. Unique qualities of Aztec Clouds include the interplay of the two languages, the exchanges of the divided choir (three smaller groups) clapping and singing Aztec drumming syllables, and the otherwise musical effort to forge the marriage of the two disparate poems of Aztec lineage. 
Brent Heisinger