Search Results: Mario Lavista from Veery Books

Serie E (Ediciones Mexicanas de Musica), no. 31. 44 pp. Folio, full score. Warmly inscribed by the composer on the title page, Oct. 1990. For winds, brass, percussion, and string quintet. Limited to 100 copies printed May 18, 1990. Lavista was born in 1948 in Mexico City. In 1987, Lavista received a Guggenheim to compose the opera "Aura," based on Carlos Fuentes's short story. The opera was premiered in 1988 in Mexico City. This orchestral work is a "paraphrase" of the opera. . . . polvo seran, mas polvo enamorado.

Serie E (Ediciones Mexicanas de Musica), no. 31. 44 pp. Folio, full score. For winds, brass, percussion, and string quintet. Limited to 100 copies printed May 18, 1990. Lavista was born in 1948 in Mexico City. In 1987, Lavista received a Guggenheim to compose the opera "Aura," based on Carlos Fuentes's short story. The opera was premiered in 1988 in Mexico City. This orchestral work is a "paraphrase" of the opera. . . . polvo seran, mas polvo enamorado.

Score, 9 pp. and part, 5 pp. This is the secunda edicion. First edition was published 1977. Composed in 1974. Se terminó de imprimaturesra partitura el día 19 de febrero de 1988 en el taller de Offset Arturo Sandoval Hernández. . . . Su tiro consta de 300 ejemplares. Le edición estuvo al cuidado de la profesora Isolda cevedoJiménez."

Score 9 pp. and part 5 pp. Piano part in stapled yellow wraps with the violin part laid in. This is the first edition., published 1977. Composed in 1974, this is one of an edition 300 copies. Lavista studied with Carlos Chavez in Mexico and at the Schola Cantorum in Paris. He is probably best-known for his opera Aura, based on a short story by Carlos Fuentes.

Poor. Folio. Wraps for Lamento para flauto baja and Nocturno para flauto en sol, but contains two copies of Nocturno, thus poor, else very good. Each copy is one large leaf folded with the piece and instructions. 3 leaves. Nocturno is a lyric piece using alternate fingerings and multiphonics. Flute and clarinet catalog from the publisher included featuring compositions by Lavista, Rodolfo Halffter, Gutierrez Heras, Jimenez Mabarak, Blas Galindo, Luis Sandi, Mario Kuri-Aldana, Jesus Bal Y Gay, and Leonardo Valazquez.

Mexico: Ediciones Mexicanas de Musica, 1993. Wraps. Very Good. Quarto. 4 parts consisting of one leaf, folded twice [2 vln, vla, vc]. Title page on verso of each leaf. All laid in a folded stiff leaf. "La noche juega con los ruidos copiandolos en su espejos de sonidas." ["The night plays with noises, copying them in its mirrors of sounds." Reflejos de la noche was the first of several quartets Lavista wrote for the Cuarteto Latinoamericano (Saul Bitrán, Arón Bitrán, Javier Montiel, and Álvaro Bitrán), with which he had a close collaboration.

Mexico: Ediciones Mexicanas de Musica, 1991. 1st Edition. Wraps. Light wear to extremities, interior fine. Very Good. Quarto. Serie D (Ediciones Mexicanas de Musica), no. 64. Wraps with pocket. [i-iv stapled in: TP, instructions, placement of instruments, catalog]. 11 leaves, 1-11 loose in pocket of wraps. Folio, full score. For bassoon and percussion. One of 150 copies. Printed January 19, 1991. Wraps with instructions and catalog stapled within. 11 leaves in pocket of wrap. Lavista was born in 1948 in Mexico City. Responsorio in memoriam Rodolfo Halffter: para fagot, 2 Bombas, y 4 campanas tubular. For bassoon, 2 bass drums and 4 chimes. Rodolfo Halffter was a Spanish composer who taught at the National Conservatory and was director of Ediciones Mexicanas de Música. Lavista studied with Halffter and Carlos Chavez at the National Conservatory.

9 pp. Quarto, very good. Colección Arión, no. 144. One of 300 printed in July of 1983. For solo piano. Dedicated to Gerhart Meunch. Composed in 1980. ". . . . no de un pájaro, sino de muchas." —Ezra Pound. "9 pp. Quarto, very good. Colección Arión, no. 144. One of 300 printed in July of 1983. For solo piano. Dedicated to Gerhart Meunch. Composed in 1980. ". . . . no de un pájaro, sino de muchas." —Ezra Pound. "The remote king of birds, the Simurg, drops a splendid feather in the center of China; The birds decide to look for him, fed up with his former anarchy. They know that their king's name means 'thirty birds'; They know that his citadel is in the Kaf, the circular mountain that surrounds the earth. They undertake the almost infinite adventure; They overcome seven valleys, or seas; the name of the penultimate one is 'Vertigo'; the last one is called 'Annihilation.' Many pilgrims desert; others perish. Thirty, purified by labor, set foot on the Simurg mountain. They contemplate it at last:… Read More