{"id":425,"date":"2020-09-22T11:15:13","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T14:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portavozediciones.com\/?p=425"},"modified":"2020-10-07T14:56:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T17:56:18","slug":"presentacion-del-album-de-luz-y-sombra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/portavozediciones.com\/en\/presentacion-del-album-de-luz-y-sombra\/","title":{"rendered":"Presenting CD De Luz y Sombra"},"content":{"rendered":"

 Presenting De Luz y Sombra, Andr\u00e9s Barrios' new music album<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interview with Andr\u00e9s Barrios by Gorgias S\u00e1nchez in La Vitrina Virtual on August 7, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 2018 I was invited by my dear friend Andr\u00e9s Barrios to be the clarinetist \"protagonist\" of his album De Luz y Sombra<\/strong>. Towards the end of last year the project was completed and the album was released in digital media in June of this year 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But first I would like to share a little story with you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was the year 1985 when I decided that I wanted to be a clarinet player. In those days there was no internet, therefore Google, Wikipedia, YouTube and all that vast collection of information, images, recordings and videos that we have access to today was simply unthinkable. While my parents were buying me the clarinet, I made myself a folder full of clippings, articles, photographs, a couple of cassettes (one by Benny Goodman and one by Richard Stoltzman) and everything related to the clarinet that I could put together at the time, so that it was the only way I had to nurture and imbue myself with what would be one of the great loves of my life. It was around those times when I happened to pass through one of the corridors of the Jos\u00e9 Angel Lamas Higher School of Music and saw a woodwind quartet rehearsing in one of the old rooms in the south wing. As if I was looking at a candy cabinet, I stayed glued to the living room window, studying in detail the clarinet player, his movements, his sound, gestures, even laughter and jokes, and naturally the clarinet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It was nothing more and nothing less than Andr\u00e9s Barrios, who then traced his route to the shelves of the urban legends of the Caracas clarinet and who was surely tattooed in my memory as the first clarinetist I met in my life. At the end of the rehearsal, when the musicians were putting away their instruments, I went into the room and went over to Andr\u00e9s to ask him about the clarinet, if he would let me see it closely and explain its different parts to me, which he did with great pleasure. Curiously, they had been rehearsing a piece of their own creation, one of their quartets for flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon. I had no idea then that I would find myself in front of this music some three decades later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Next I welcome our hero of today, Andr\u00e9s Barrios, who as our mutual friend Bartolom\u00e9 D\u00edaz describes as a \u201cReborn Renaissance Artist\u201d given his multifaceted artistic activity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Interview is in Spanish and you can listen to it by clicking on the following link. )<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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