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Article: FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY MUSIC PROFESSOR NOMINATED FOR LATIN GRAMMY
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- November 4, 2009
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MIAMI, Nov. 3 -- Florida International University, a component of the state university system, issued the following news release:
Orlando Jacinto Garcia wants you to lose track of time.
Through his cuatro asimetrias, the Cuban-born composer attempts to draw listeners in so intensely that they lose the concept of time.
"When the work is over you aren't sure if it was two minutes long or 20 minutes long," said Garcia, a professor of music theory and composition at FIU's School of Music.
The work, written for and recorded by the Asturias, Spain-based entrequatre guitar quartet, has been nominated for a 2009 Latin Grammy Award in the Best Classical Contemporary Composition category.
"I am ...