Rosa María Nolly Bustos and Agustina Crespo, teachers at the University School of Arts (EUdA) of the National University of Quilmes, obtained first and second place in the first Provincial Competition of Works for the “Marta Lambertini” Symphony Orchestra. Organized by the Cultural Institute of the Province of Buenos Aires, the pieces “Humedal” and “Juegos de infancia” (Childhood games) were performed at the Bahía Blanca Municipal Theater. The reference to nature in “Humedal” by Nolly Bustos and to nostalgia for childhood in “Juegos de Infancia” by Crespo were the compositional keys chosen by the artists in this contest.
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For her part, Crespo highlights that her piece “was a version of a commission that was made to me by the Orchestra Students program of Buenos Aires for its 25th anniversary. However, I decided to make the writing more complex as it would be played by a professional orchestra. The creative process was more of an orchestration than a new composition.”
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For her part, Agustina Crespo is a composer, singer and professor at the EUdA. Graduated in Composition at the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina, her works were recorded and performed in concerts held in Argentina and abroad.
Space and memory: poetic construct and composition
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On Crespo’s side, the piece for symphony orchestra – which will also be performed by the orchestra of the Artistic Organizations of the South (OAS) – is inspired by the children’s games La Mancha, Las Estatuas, Las Escondidas and El Huevo Podrido. In this aspect, the artist highlights: “I take the temporal structures, their narrative curves and the moments of tension/rest of the games and I replicate them in music.”
With Childhood Games the composer seeks to “establish a dialogue between individual and collective memory, evoking nostalgia and memory through those ways of playing and thinking from childhood. I write with the constructive elements that emerge from these ways of playing: the round, the cyclical format, the loop, the slogan, the collage, among others”
The role of women and dissidents in current music
The Provincial Competition of Works for the “Marta Lambertini” Symphony Orchestra was a proposal that brought together women and members of the LGTBIQ+ collective from the Buenos Aires territory. In this sense, Crespo and Nolly Bustos agree that the role of the State is important.
“We must continue the fight and construction in pursuit of equality. However, a competition like the Lambertini, which operates as a platform for new minority works to be programmed and premiered, is to celebrate and support in their continuity and growth,” Crespo emphasizes.
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*Composer, musician, teacher and academic coordinator of the EUDA. It belongs to the research project Technological Developments Applied to the Arts (DTAA). dcampos@unq.edu.ar