clarinet violin cello piano DISAGREE Miguel del Aguila Juventas Chamber Ensemble contemporary music

DISAGREE - quartet for clarinet, violin, cello and piano music: Miguel del Aguila publisher: Miguel del Aguila - ©Copyright 2013 by Miguel del Aguila. All Rights Reserved for All Countries Juventas New Music Ensemble Oliver Caplan Art. Dir. Wolcott Humphrey, clarinet - Ryan Shannon, violin Minjin Chung, cello Julia Scott Carey, piano - juventasmusic.org DISAGREE Overloaded with apparently incompatible thematic material, Disagree is a work about integrating disparity. By doing this, it celebrates and makes a statement for pluralism in music and in our society. This “disagreement” of thematic material carries over to the performers who as the work progresses, seem to increasingly disagree about the piece and its direction as they keep interrupt and at times, mocking each other. After much discrepancy, friendly dialogue and playfulness, a confrontation and a wild chase rushes the piece to its uplifting conclusion as all realize that they have made music together in spite of their differences. The varied thematic material is evocative of South American dances like Malambo, Vals Criollo, Tango and Milonga with occasional neo-romantic outbursts from the pianist, minimalist passages from clarinetist and violinist, pastoral moods and dissonant, polytonal percussive clashes. Boston’s JUVENTAS New Music Ensemble is a contemporary chamber group presenting music from a diverse array of composers that live in today’s world and respond to our time. Since its founding in 2005,it has...