DINARRA (2)

DINARRA CONCERTS

The �First Dinarra Concert� took place in November 1998 at the Cabildo
(Antique Municipal Building) of Montevideo. Dinarra Players were
Alejandro S�nchez and Johannes Stenger. The program of this Concert
included Modern and Jazz music, and was executed using the two types of
dinarras described further back, i.e. the acoustic and the electric.

The �Second Dinarra Concert� was held on Friday, October 1, 1999,
(International Day of Music) the venue being on this occasion the
Ministerio de Educaci�n y Cultura (M.E.C.). At this Concert electric
dinarras and other musical instruments were used. A more ambitious
program this time included:

- A dinarra composition by Diego Legrand called �Tres Ep�stolas�
- (�Three Epistles�) which was executed by Johannes Stenger and
- Alejandro S�nchez.
- A music composition by Carlos Weiske termed �Peculiar�
- (�Peculiar�) which was played by Alejandro Camb�n (Double-
- bass), Ulises Ferretti (Recorder) and Johannes Stenger (Electric
Dinarra).

The above melodies were followed by a variety of popular jazz
compositions executed in electric dinarra duet (Johannes Stenger and
Alejandro S�nchez).

With regard to the above described �Second Dinarra Concert� there
appeared an article by Nelson Giguens Risso (well known music critic) in
the magazine �Revista Sinf�nica� pertaining to December 1999, reviewing
the Concert, which translated into English, is quoted below:

�Notoriously experimental, the �Three Epistles� by Diego Legrand, though
repetitious, had passages of fine lyrical music; �Peculiar�, composed
by Carlos Weiske, followed. In the latter intonations having excellent
color were heard - and an Americanist spirit was discernable -
finally various jazz popular melodies interpreted by Alejandro Sanchez
and Johannes Stenger in electric dinarra were played. Throughout the
whole Concert, in which Alejandro Camb�n (Double-bass) and Ulises
Ferretti (Recorder) also intervened, the dinarra �s good qualities
were noteworthy, being a 6 string microtonal instrument, with
intonations both strictly related with harmonics 3 an 5 and free. It
was noted that the dinarra is an instrument which must be used basically
for duets of jazzistic style, which have great charm, and are
simultaneously very defined and profound. It was a Concert of much
promise, stimulating and full of novelty, which took place in the the
International Day of Music at the M.E.C.�
--
Eduardo Sabat-Garibaldi
Simon Bolivar 1260
11300 Montevideo
Uruguay
Phone: (598)(2) 7080952
Webpage (Spanish): http://www.geocities.com/dinarra2000/dinarra.html

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