La Otra (SATB, Piano, Cello) Live Recording

This is a setting of the Gabriela Mistral poem "La Otra." The piece is the middle movement of my set "Three Spanish Landscapes" for choir, piano, and cello. The violent Mistral poem is written from the perspective of a woman who confronts and kills a part of herself which she hates. Though the text is about a personal struggle, Mistral uses imagery of dry, fiery desert landscapes to portray the subject.

La Otra (SATB, Piano, Cello) Live Recording

Any score we can see?

Wow. I loved it. If you're jealous about uploading it, i understand why. For my taste it's a great job. Magnificent vocal arrangement.

I'm going to be submitting this to publishers soon, so I'm reluctant to post a full score. However, I can definitely upload some sample pages.

Thanks for your comments!

Jason,

Congratulations. This is music like I like music to be: good without any doubt, excellent for sure. You adequately use the text, you have a great building up, use the piano in a exciting way, sometimes even as percussion, in short ... excellent. It reminds me to a style of a composer which I have already heared somewhere, though I cannot put my finger in it. Love the contrast of the choir, of the solo voices in the piece. In short: it is a great composition, congratulations.

The only thing I am sorry for, is that you have limited us from a score, I would be the first of having a deeper look at it.

Wolfgang Sachs

This gorgeous. Such an unusual decision on the instrumentation, yet it works and I love it!

The harmonies are beautiful and so is the choice of words.

Wow. What a piece, what a recording. Love the instrumentation and the choral writing is superb. This is awesome, I'd pay good money for it

Wow, great recording. One thing tho. You may wanna find a friend who's fluent in spanish (or maybe you are, lol. idk.) who can show you how the diphthongs work in Spanish. E.g., it's pie-dra not pi-e-dra. One wouldnt say con-gra-tu-la-ti-ons, you'd say con-gra-tu-la-tions. For a native speaker, these kinds of things can be disconcerting. also watch for the which syllables of words you set to long notes. It can end up sounding like you put the emphasis on a wrong syllable. Eric Whitacre made both these mistakes in his wonderful piece Cloudburst. Dont make the same ones. (I recently saw a recording of Cloudburst on youtube that Whitacre himself conducted, and he fixed most of the mistakes. guess someone told him, lol. but still, in his score, the mistakes are there.)

If this has already been published tho, then dont worry about it. its no big deal.

I love the piece though. Lots of energy. you can feel the struggle! And I LOVE the way it ends! Great job!!!

Eric Whitacre made both these mistakes in his wonderful piece Cloudburst. Dont make the same ones. (I recently saw a recording of Cloudburst on youtube that Whitacre himself conducted, and he fixed most of the mistakes. guess someone told him, lol. but still, in his score, the mistakes are there.)

Yeah, we're having to correct those too; we're doing it in U of U Singers.

The choir that performed this is wonderful! I'm pretty jealous! The piece itself it beautiful, too, and definitely conveys the imagery you were trying to portray. I really want to hear the other movements, now!