Daniela Fugellie, principal researcher at CMUS, published an academic article in the Revista Musical Chilena. It is about “Serialism and the scope of music as language in Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt’s Taller 44. La ausencia (1962) by Enrique Rivera and América insurrecta (1962) by Fernando García”.

The academic from the Universidad Alberto Hurtado writes: “The article analyzes two works by Becerra-Schmidt’s students that were successfully premiered in 1962: Enrique Rivera’s La Ausencia and Fernando García’s América Insurrecta. Both have in common the use of poetry in Spanish and the use of procedures directly or indirectly linked to serialism, ranging from complex dodecaphonic procedures to the apparently free use of the chromatic total. We study the way in which musical, expressive and semantic elements are combined by their creators in these works in pursuit of a music that, as their teacher expected, is capable of communicating a message, without renouncing certain procedures linked to serialism”.

Read the full article at this link.