El por siempre de un genio

El POR SIEMPRE DE UN GENIO (2021), for Wind Orchestra, by Eva Lopszyc.
Strasbourg Conservatory of Music Wind Orchestra
Miguel Etchegoncelay, conductor
Premiere performance, December 11, 2021
Cité de la Musique et de la Danse, Strasbourg, France
"El por siempre de un genio" (A genius’ forever) gives an important place to random playing and free expression. It uses indistinctly the conventional notation and the graphism of contemporary aesthetics. The work has a clear metrical organization, except in the "modo libero" sections, however this organization is not based on the notion of a pulse, but on a distribution of time determined by the gesture of sound, left to the discretion of the interpreter.
In the aleatoric sections, Lopszyc uses smooth, oscillating sonorities, tremoli, glissandi, clusters and irregular and fluctuating trills, as well as loops, which are melodic and rhythmic patterns that are repeated ad libitum, whether treated by sections or in the tutti.
A very brief quotation from “Fuga y Misterio”, recurring in the form of a loop, as well as the use of a three-note motif, with tone-semitone intervals, fourths, fifths or sevenths, reminiscent of Piazzolla’s music, articulate the form. The work reaches its twilight with the use of "parlato" (spoken text) and tubular bells, on the same three-note motif, this time in fourths and fifths. Creating a poetic and mysterious texture, almost like a call to the eternal and transcendental.
"El por siempre de un genio" has a duration of approximately 14 minutes and it is written for the following instrumentation:
Piccolo
Flute 1, 2
Oboe 1, 2
Clarinet Eb
Clarinet Bb, 1, 2, 3
Bass Clarinet
Bassoon 1, 2
Alto Saxophone 1, 2
Tenor Saxophone
Baritone Saxophone
Bb Trumpets 1, 2, 3
Horns in F, 1, 2, 3, 4
Trombones 1, 2, 3
Euphonium
Tuba
Harp
Piano
Timpani (3)
Percussion I (Xylophone, Triangle 1-2, Wood Block 1)
Percussion II (Drumroll, Tam Tam, 3 Tom Tom - Bass - Middle - Treble)
Percussion III (Suspended Cymbal, Gran Cassa, Tambourine 1-2)
Percussion IV (Vibraphone, Wind Chimes, Tubular Bells, Wood Block 2)
Double Bass
Eva Irene Lopszyc (Buenos Aires, 1956) graduated from the Conservatorio Superior de Música "Manuel de Falla" Buenos Aires (CSMMF) in piano, composition and orchestra conducting.
She began her piano studies with her mother, Tatiana Vaistij Lopszyc and later with Elsa Piaggio de Tarelli, Charles Dobler; Ángel Lasala, forming a piano duo with her sister Diana. She studied composition with her great-uncle Jacobo Ficher, Alicia Terzián, Roberto García Morillo and Augusto Rattenbach, and orchestra conducting with Alfonso Stagno; Miguel Ángel Gilardi, Adela Marshall, Mario Benzecry and Pedro Ignacio Calderón.
As a composer, her production covers various genres, premiered by outstanding performers in Argentina as well as in Uruguay, Brazil, Peru, Mexico, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Italy, Cittá Dell Vaticano, Italy, Germany, Ukraine, Poland, Israel, United Kingdom, China and Belgium.
Her work "Brigantia de los vientos" has recently been a compulsory work in the Second Section of the "133 Certamen Internacional de Bandas de Música de Valencia", Spain, in 2019.
She has participated in Contemporary Music Festivals and Symphonic Band Music Congresses in Europe, performing world premieres of her works.