Review of Pain has an element of blank
Benavides had the courage to take on two of the poems that Copland had already set, “Heart, we will forget him!” and “I felt a funeral in my brain.” Fortunately, he had no trouble finding his own voice to express his own interpretation of these texts... the performance emerged as a highly individual approach to poems that tapped into the soul of a highly individual woman.
Review on Prelude and Fugue on Old Friends
This was followed by music by the oldest composer, Nick Benavides... For me this was a rather engaging bit of nostalgia, leaving me thinking about how the source material predated the composer’s birth by about two decades.
Review of dum spiro...
This made for a unique approach to get the listener involved in the embellishment process, situating the soloist in the middle of a cloud of seemingly unrelated pitches.
Review of "and the horse you rode in on"
Benavides' funky and the horse you rode in on inspired some rump-shaking and, I believe, the Harlem Shake.
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