Danielle Pastin
Cantata para America Magica
Danielle Pastin - soprano
Rowan University Percussion Ensemble
One of the first works of his 12-tone period was the Cantata para América Mágica. This large work for soprano and percussion orchestra mixes folkloric elements (indigenous instruments and pre-Columbian-inspired poems by Mercedes de Toro, Ginastera’s first wife) with thematic and structural devices common to the Second Viennese school (particularly retrograde formations, in both individual rows and in large palindrome forms).