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Roberto Sierra has taken a lot of guff for his exploitation of Puerto Rican and Latino popular music idioms in “classical” concert music. After all,
Roberto Sierra’s music is fun. However self-conscious his Spanishisms may be (he hails from Puerto Rico), he has forged a personal style at once original,
The flute is an exceptionally tough instrument to play well–it must be, given the distressingly intonation-challenged performances you commonly hear in the concert hall and
Roberto Sierra’s Third Symphony sounds remarkably like one of Morton Gould’s Latin American Symphonettes. Lest this sound like a criticism, bear in mind that I
Conga-Line in Hell is one of those rare discs that not only makes thematic sense but also happens to be hugely enjoyable from beginning to
Roberto Sierra’s Sinfonia No. 3 is for listeners who like the tougher tonal music of Ginastera, or the symphonies of Guarnieri and Villa-Lobos. Puerto Rican-born
