VIRTUAL EVENT – Premieres Across History: From 1607 to 2021

Premieres Across History: From 1607 to 2021
The Livestream world premiere of Edwin Guevara Gutiérrez’s Ibero- American Landscapes
Thursday, April 29, 2021
music.arizona.edu/live
11:00 a.m. AZ/Pacific

This livestream event brings together composition, performance, and scholarship at the University of Arizona
to feature the world premiere of Ibero-American Landscapes, a new work by graduate guitarist
Edwin Guevara Gutiérrez.

This premiere takes place as the final meeting of the course MUS130B (Introduction to Music Literature). Throughout the semester, students in the course have explored five world premieres across music history; L’Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi (1607), Messiah by George Frideric Handel (1742), Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 (1824), Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique (1830) and The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky (1913). Ibero-American Landscapes, commissioned specifically for MUS130B, is the course’s sixth and final
world premiere.

This event will begin with brief introductory remarks at 11:00 a.m., followed by a live dress rehearsal.
The world premiere of Ibero-American Landscapes will take place at 11:30 a.m., performed by the Tucson
Ibero-American Quartet (Diana Schaible (flute), Cecilia Palma (cello), Misael Barraza-Díaz (guitar),
and Edwin Guevara Gutiérrez (guitar).

This project has been made possible with the generous support of the UArizona Center for University Education Scholarship (CUES)

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One thing that needs to be considered in this time of major climate change concern is the carbon emissions of flying in artists from overseas. The carbon emissions of flying Stockholm-Tucson roundtrip come to about 3 tons per economy class passenger. That is comparable to the carbon emissions produced by the average American in 1 year of driving. Could a US-based organist have played this recital (shorter travel distance and lower emissions)? Or, is Hammarstrom already on tour in the US (thus consolidating multiple recitals into 1 overseas trip)? There is also the option of offsetting flight emissions. Saying this as a DMA grad of the UA organ program and as an astronomy educator who’s following the astronomy field’s efforts to mitigate climate impact.

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