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El Garrasí

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Released
  
1959

Label
  
Cymbal

Release date
  
1959

Genre
  
Classical music

Recorded
  
1958

Artist
  
Aldemaro Romero

Producer
  
Aldemaro Romero

Aldemaro Romero albums
  
Criollísima, Dinner in Caracas, Venezuelan Fiesta, Sketches in Rhythm

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El Garrasí is the name of a 33-RPM LP album by Venezuelan composer/arranger/conductor Aldemaro Romero, released in 1959 (see 1959 in music), with the record label Cymbal.

Contents

This album features popular Venezuelan pieces, continuing with the modernization of Venezuelan folk music, upgrading it from folk instrumentations to full modern orchestral versions, and making it palatable to international audiences, and the presentation of two compositions by Aldemaro Romero, El Garrasí and Dos Golondrinas.

Aldemaro Romero explains at the back cover of the album, the process of recording, the origin of his new compositions and his travel to New York City.

Miscellanea

  • The album was recorded on October, 1958, at the Columbia Recording Company studios in New York City.
  • The Garrasí is part of the Venezuelan plains popular clothing.
  • Some of the musicians at the recording, were part of the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera House, and the New York Philharmonic.

    • Songs

    1El Garrasí
    2Esta es Venezuela
    3Andino

    References

    El Garrasí Wikipedia
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