El tres de abril/April 3rd
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"Yo siempre he pensado que la poesía y la música son las grandes depositarias de la memoria del hombre."
Mario Lavista, who was born and raised in Mexico City, is "one of the most important Latin American composers of his generation" (read more HERE). He grew up surrounded by music in his family and enrolled in the Taller de Composición at the National Conservatory in 1963. In 1967, he receieved a scholarship from the French government to study at the Schola Cantorum in Paris. He founded the collective improvisational music group Quanta in 1970. In 1982, he founded Pauta, one of the most important music journals in Latin America. He is still the chief editor. His first and only opera, Aura, based on a short story by Carlos Fuentes, won him a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1987, The premiere was at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. Lavista has been a guest professor at universities around the world, including many in the United States. He has won multiple awards, and his work is performed internationally on a regular basis. For a complete biography, visit the Living Composers Project, HERE. Listen to Lavista talk about his life and work in this interview, from 2013, or this one, from 2014.
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