(Solo piano with prerecorded digital audio).
Total duration 5:40 (2010)
Published by Activist Music (ASCAP).
Commissioned in 2010 by pianist Teresa McCollough.
One movement work. 5 pages, 8.5" x 11".

Premiered in November 2010 in Santa Clara, CA by Teresa McCollough, piano.

Audio excerpt demo recorded by Alex Shapiro.

Audio of the voice of Juan Rulfo reading from his short story, Luvina, gratefully used with permission of Fundacion Juan Rulfo.

Luvina

(Solo piano).
Total duration ca. 5 minutes (2007)
Published by Activist Music (ASCAP).
Commissioned in 2007 by pianist Ana Cervantes.
One movement work. 5 pages, 8.5" x 11".

Premiered in November 2007 in Mexico City, Mexico by Ana Cervantes, piano.

Recorded by Ana Cervantes, piano.

"Wherever you look in Luvina, it's a very sad place. You're going there, so you'll find out. I would say it's the place where sadness nests... the breeze that blows there moves it around but never takes it away." Such is the bleak world described in the late Mexican author Juan Rulfo's short story, "Luvina," about villagers living in a grim desert of dire poverty and hopelessness. Absorb the haunting lilt of Rulfo's own voice, reading passages from "Luvina" as the music transports us to a place where slow and insistent burdens are met with simple, unquestioning acceptance.