The latest issue of Anuario Musical, from Argentina, is now available. In it, Daniela Fugellie published the article “From Maximum Rigor to Maximum Freedom: Serialism in the Teaching and Creation of the Latin American Center for Advanced Musical Studies (CLAEM) in Buenos Aires.”

The CMUS main researcher writes in the abstract: “Between 1963 and 1971, the Latin American Center for Advanced Musical Studies (CLAEM) of the Instituto Di Tella in Buenos Aires was an important meeting place for Latin American composers. The curriculum designed by its director, Alberto Ginastera, sought to offer a wide range of contemporary approaches and techniques, as reflected in the international invited teachers. This article approaches the presence of serialism in the teaching and creation at the CLAEM from different perspectives: the scholarship holders’ previous experience with serialism, Ginastera’s position, the encounters with some foreign teachers and especially the visits of Riccardo Malipiero (in 1963), Luigi Dallapiccola (in 1964), and Umberto Eco (in 1970), and a panoramic view of the scholarship holders’ creative works. From these different perspectives, serialism is presented as a shifting object of study that embodies multiple possible meanings. As we will see, serialism played a relevant role in the first generations of fellows, to be displaced later by more experimental proposals, improvisation, and electronics”

You can read the article at this link.