“Explosión” by Alex Guerrero

Alex Guerrero’s background as a singer greatly informs his compositions: as an operatic lyric tenor who performs with The Metropolitan Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago Choruses; as a concert soloist; and as a chamber, concert, and liturgical choral artist who’s performed with the Grammy Award-winning True Concord, the Sephardi Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue (the oldest North American Jewish congregation) and the Choir at St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue (both in New York City), and the symphonic choruses alongside the world-renown Philadelphia Orchestra and The New York Philharmonic. His setting of “Tenebrae factae sunt” was a prize winner in The New York Virtuoso Singers’ composition competition.

TEXT/LETRAS

Seleccionada del poema de Delmira Agustini (1886-1914)

iSi la vida es amor,

iQuiero mas vida para amar,

iMi vida toda canta, besa, riel

iMi vida toda es una boca en flor!

Written for the Bahué Latinx Composer Miniature Challenge. Performed and recorded by Ariel Campos and Aliana de la Guardia at Mt San Antonio College in Walnut, CA, and the Community Music School of Springfield in Springfield, MA. Audio and video editing by Jeffrey Means, Suonovivo Audio.  

This program is supported in part by a grant from the Springfield Cultural Council, a local agency that is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.