El tres de abril/April 3rd
Photo from the Mexican Culture Institute of New York. Click HERE . ¡Feliz cumpleaños a ... Mario Lavista! (1943- ) "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 Cit...