Victor Agudelo (b. 1979)

Algo va a suceder…[Something is going to happen…]

(2019) 12 minutes

Piccolo, 3 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, glockenspiel, vibraphone, xylophone, chimes, vibraslap, crotales, triangle, guiro, flexatone, tenor drum, tom-tom drums, cajón, gong, wooden rattle, jingle stick, cymbals (pair), bass drum, anvil, slapstick, high hat, suspended cymbals, sizzle cymbal, wood blocks, bongo drums, conga drums, harp, and strings.

Victor Agudelo’s orchestral work Algo va a suceder was commissioned by Miguel Harth-Bedoya “for his last concert as titular conductor of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra.”   The composer dedicates the piece to Maestro Harth-Bedoya.

Our planet speaks to us, and day by day its voice is replicated by the voices of some of its inhabitants, who try to make us see the damage that generation after generation we have been doing.  Global warming is one of the consequences of this human behavior and the thread of Algo va a suceder...

Influenced by the tale “Something very serious is going to happen in this town” by Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, the sound narrative and the structure of this work is based on the rumor.  There are eight characters whose melodic-rhythmic lines have been extracted from different Colombian accents, these enter one by one, creating a confusion of accents and a chaos of forebodings.

—Victor Agudelo

https://www.victoragudelo.co/post/algo-va-a-suceder-world-premiere-may-15-16-and-17-2020

© Ken Meltzer, 2020