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Tiempo Libre comes to Severance Hall
Miami’s premier timba band, Tiempo Libre, will perform with the CIM Orchestra, led by Carl Topilow on October 24 at 8:30 p.m. The seven classically- trained, Cuban-born musicians will excite Severance Hall audiences with hot tempos, pulsating beats, and the culturally rich timba sounds of high voltage Latin Jazz, fused with classical rhythms in this benefit for the Cleveland Institute of Music, presented by CIM’s Women’s Committee.
In Spanish, Tiempo Libre means “free time,” but the group has very little free time as it salsas its way across the country, practically hypnotizing audience members out of their seats and onto dance floors and aisles. Their boldest statement is Rumba Sinfónica, a new symphonic work written by revered Venezuelan composer Ricardo Lorenz in collaboration with Cuban pianist Jorge Gomez, the group’s musical director. The name of the piece translates into Symphonic Party. “Rumba Sinfónica seeks to be a 21st Century Afro-Cuban response to Ravel’s Bolero,” explains Lorenz. “Instead of relying upon a snare drum to provide the hypnotic rhythmic collarbone of the work, an entire Afro-Cuban rhythm section is called upon to take this role.”
Rumba Sinfónica fuses the urban rhythms of past and present Cuban music with the sophisticated sounds of the symphony orchestra and explores the full possibilities of a Cuban band and orchestra playing together. The piece seeks to make an assertive statement by allowing Cuban rumba to not only infuse a symphonic work but to also guide its musical content from beginning to end. Rumba Sinfónica was co-commissioned by the Minnesota Orchestra, the
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