Pasaje Seaver

Pasaje Seaver is a composition for piano solo by Juan Maria Solare. Duration: about 7 minutes. The piece has been written in Worpswede (Germany), in December 2001, within the frame of a "artist in residence" programme at the foundation "Künstlerhäuser Worpswede".

Known performances

• Premiere by the composer at the piano on 15 March 2002, recital "Hommage à Gardel" at the Café Central in Worpswede (Germany).
• Juan María Solare, 3 de mayo de 2002, en el Music Hall de Worpswede (el recital fue filmado por el cineasta Reinhard Hölker, co-becario de las Künstlerhäuser Worpswede).
• Natalia Cabello, Conservatorio de Música de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires", 17/DIC/2003.
• Juan María Solare, Conservatorio de Tandil. 19/DIC/2003.
• Juan María Solare, Universidad de Bremen, 19/FEB/2004.
• Juan María Solare, Teatro moks am Theater Bremen, 20/FEB/2004.
• Juan María Solare, Bremen (Ichon Park) 8/MAR/2004.
• Juan María Solare, Lilienthal, Niels-Stensen-Haus; 2/OCT/2004.
• Juan María Solare, Bremen, casa de Ingeborg & Alfred Schmidt-Ehrenberg. 29/ENE/2005.
• Juan María Solare, Buenos Aires, Scala de San Telmo, 1/ABR/2005.
• Juan María Solare, Mendoza, Auditorio de la Escuela de Música de la Facultad de Artes y Diseño de la Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina; el 8/ABR/2005.
• Juan María Solare, Bremen, Kulturwerkstatt Westend, 14/ENE/2006.
• Juan María Solare, Teatro de la Universidad de Bremen, 2/FEB/2006.
• Juan María Solare, Hochschule für Künste (Escuela Superior de las Artes) de Bremen, el 8/JUL/2006 (gran celebración con motivo de la inauguración de las mejoras al edificio).
• Juan María Solare, Worpswede (Alemania), Salón Comunitario (Gemeindesaal) de la iglesia Zionskirche, 2/SEP/2007, ciclo "Worpsweder Orgelmusik", Nr 121.
• Alfredo Corral, París (Francia), Centre Martenot-Kleber, 30/SEP/2007 (Estreno francés).
• Alfredo Corral, Londres, Regent Hall, 5/OCT/2007 (estreno británico)
• Alfredo Corral, Londres, St James at Piccadilly, OCT 2007
• Scarlett Brebion Kelemen, San José, Costa Rica, 17/NOV/2007, ciclo "Música en la montaña" (casa de Sylvia Montero y Marco Tristán), décimo concierto de la temporada 2007, (estreno costarricense).
• Alfredo Corral, Buenos Aires (La Scala de San Telmo), 1/DIC/2007 y 8/DIC/2007.
• Juan María Solare, Bremen (Auditorium de la Hochschule für Künste), 14/FEB/2009, evento "Brutstätte" (Estados de incubación).
• Juan María Solare, 15/MAY/2009, recital "A short history of tango" en el marco del festival "Tango Rojo" en la Latvian House, London.
• Scarlett Brebion Kelemen, 2/JUL/2009, église Saint-Pierre, Brie-sous-Mortagne, Francia (ciclo Jeudis musicaux des églises romanes, organizado por la Communauté d'Agglomération Royan Atlantique).
• Juan María Solare, 3/SEP/2009, Bolívar Hall (embassy of Venezuela), London.
• Juan María Solare, 28/JAN/2010, Theatersaal of the Universität Bremen (Monographic concert "Tango Nuevo & Neue Musik").

Other appearances of the piece

Pasaje Seaver was used in the Spanish shortfilm "Mesa para dos" by Medardo Amor and Angel Almazán, August 2003. The piece is included in the CD Tango Monologues (Juan Maria Solare, piano) as track 4.

Biographic aspects

The composer wrote in the booklet of his CD Tango Monologues:

"I was about eight years old when my father took me to see a street that was being demolished in order to build a highway. Later I learned that the Pasaje Seaver was a street steeped in the more Bohemian traditions of Buenos Aires. My piece Pasaje Seaver symbolizes the systematic destruction of memory in the name of progress - a destruction that may or may not be justified, which is just a question of definition. Musically speaking, tango fragments are brought together with greater or lesser continuity. Pasaje Seaver does not follow a narrative, but paints a static picture of total desolation and ruin. This work is dedicated to my father in memoriam."^[1]

Marginalia

• Pasaje Seaver has been recorded in the sessions for Solare's previous CD, "Tango Nomade" (with Eduardo Kohan) but must be discarded due to lack of place on the cd.
• Pasaje Seaver has been conceived in order to be "deconstructed" and using its fragments in an electroacoustic piece by Solare, "Tango Oublié" (that ended up been composed several years later, in 2007).

Bibliography

• Cabello, Natalia. August 2006. "Sobre 'Pasaje Seaver' de Juan María Solare". Conservatorio Municipal Manuel de Falla, Buenos Aires (tutor: prof. Silvia Ziblat).

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