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FIU music professor nominated for Latin Grammy award
November 5, 10:26 PM Miami and Fort Lauderdale Performing Arts Examiner Melanie Heywood
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Orlando Jacinto García, a music professor at Florida International University, has been nominated for a 2009 Latin Grammy Award in the Best Classical Contemporary Composition category for a work entitled cuatro asimetrias. The 10th Annual Latin Grammy Awards were held eariler today at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Popular Articles
Professor Garcia wrote the piece for Spain-based entrequatre guitar Will Oprah Winfrey leave syndication for her own quartet The Asturias, who also recorded the song. network?
Precious movie theaters opening release date Orlando Jacinto García Professor García is quite renowned in the music industry. According to November 6, 2009 for some cities, later date for www.fiu.edu an article from FIU, several distinguished soloists, ensembles and others orchestras have presented his music at various festivals in many of the major capitals of the world. His music has also recently premiered in Holland, France, Spain, "Yogi Bear" movie with Timberlake, Faris and Italy, England and throughout Latin America, the United States and Canada. Garcia has also Aykroyd received numerous honors and awards from a variety of organizations and cultural institutions, 'Access Hollywood' interviews Robert Pattinson including two Fulbright artist/lectureships and two Cintas Foundation Fellowship awards. and Kristen Stewart
Also according to the article, García hopes to draw listeners in to the music "so intensely that they Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart's lose the concept of time." You can listen to an excerpt of the piece here. Personally...with all due relationship 'devastated' Nikki Reed? respect to Professor García, from what I listened to in the excerpt, the strumming sounded like one note being played over and over. I didn't find it haunting, compelling, or ingenius. I'm quite surprised it was nominated, because I just found it repetitive and nerve-grating to listen to. Recent Articles
However, without hearing the entire song, it is difficult to fully judge it. So I'll suffice to say that I'm Miami's B-Boy 'Legacy' Perez and Victor proud that a local professor achieved such an honorable nomination. It has not been announced yet Smalley still in the running on So You Think whether García won, as at the time of this writing I believe the ceremony is still in progress. You Can Dance
To listen to cuatros asimetras and hear for yourself, click here.
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