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Miguel del Aguila
Ballet Scenes from CLOCKS
(excerpts)

V. Romance of the Swiss Clock and the Old Clock

Omnium Ballet Project
choreography:
Minou Lallemand
dancers:
Malia Yamamoto - Raven Matsushita - Dwayne Sakaguchi
Lorenzo Acosta - Aya Duong

Chamber Music Hawaii
Ensemble

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Clocks published by:
Peermusic Classical


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No commercial distribution allowed
recorded:
2/24/2013 at Paliku Theater in Honolulu, Hawaii

About CLOCKS Op. 58 for string quartet and piano

1. Shelves full of Clocks
2. Midnight Strikes
3. The Old Clock's Story
4. Sun Dial 2000 B.C.
5. Romance of the Swiss Clock and the Old Clock
6. The Joy of Keeping Time
Written in 1998, Clocks was commissioned by the Ventura Chamber Music Festival. It was premiered on May 9, 1998 by Cuarteto Latinoamericano and Miguel del Aguila in Ventura, California during the Festival. In 2011, Clocks was honored with a Latin Grammy Nomination for Best Contemporary Classical Composition. This suite of six movements portrays an imaginary visit to a clock museum, exploring the vast sound world of clocks from the deep resonance of clock towers to the finely calibrated workings of clock mechanics. The final movement, “The Joy of Keeping Time,” takes place after the museum closes and the clocks come to life in an exuberant jam session. The composer writes: “I tried to avoid the piano quintet sound, which is so much associated with the quintets of Brahms and Mozart. The theme of Clocks allowed me to explore different kinds of sound and different ways to produce it by using plucked strings notes for the piano, extreme high registers, and pizzicatos as well as rhythmic ostinatos in the strings. The piano is used as one more instrument of the ensemble and not as the dominating instrument as in the usual quintets. Only in the last movement does the piano take a more dominant role.” Clocks is recorded by Camerata San Antonio on the Bridge CD “Salón Buenos Aires", by Cuarteto Latinoamericano on Hoot/Wisdom FAU Recordings CD "Clocks", and by Onix Ensemble on Global Entertainment Recordings CD "El Tiempo". Clocks is published by Peermusic Classical.

About Miguel del Aguila:
Two-time Grammy nominated American composer, Miguel del Aguila's prolific music output and distinctive musical style has placed him among the most highly regarded composers of his generation.
Performances or broadcasts of his works take place virtually every day of the year somewhere in the world. His catalogue of over a hundred works has been performed by over 60 orchestras, and thousands of first rate ensembles and soloists. His works, available in 27 CD recordings are published by Peermusic.

He came to the attention of European audiences in 1983 when his Messages premiered at Musikvereinssaal, the home of the Vienna Philharmonic. Soon performances at Konzerthaus and Bösendorfer Hall followed, and in 1987 Peermusic published his first works. 1988 KKM-Austria and Albany Records released his first CDs. During the 90's Aguila's list of works grew as did the number of his recordings, performances and honors which by 1995 included the prestigious Kennedy Center Friedheim Award among many others. After ten years in Vienna, Aguila returned to California in 1992, where soon Los Angeles Times critics welcomed him as "One of the West Coast's most promising and enterprising young composers." He was Resident Composer at Chautauqua Institution until 2004 and Composer in Residence with New Mexico Symphony 2005- 2006. Currently Aguila's catalogue reaches 107 works for all genres, most published by Peermusic Classical and available on twenty-seven CDs released by Naxos, Bridge, Dorian, Telarc, New Albion, Albany, Eroica, and others. Recently Aguila received two Grammy nominations for CD Salon Buenos Aires and for his work Clocks.
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