KING MANGOBERRY (Music of Ricardo Lorenz)
KING MANGOBERRY Music of Ricardo Lorenz
Michigan State University Wind Symphony
Kevin L. Sedatole, Director
Manuel Alejandro Rangel, Maracas
KING MANGOBERRY Music of Ricardo Lorenz
Michigan State University Wind Symphony
Kevin L. Sedatole, Director
Manuel Alejandro Rangel, Maracas
KING MANGOBERRY Music of Ricardo Lorenz
Michigan State University Wind Symphony
Kevin L. Sedatole, Director
Manuel Alejandro Rangel, Maracas
How does one define musical language? How does one describe, compartmentalize, or build walls around a music that knows no borders and yields to no conventions? To experience the music of Ricardo Lorenz is to enter an inimitable sound world governed by confounding rhythm, inhabited by rich color, with a brilliant and at time foreboding formal landscape. His musical message emerges from the fog of the mind’s ear with a clarity that rings loudly in the very depths of the musician’s soul. By allowing Ricardo’s music into our minds and hearts, we discover musical lessons essential for a well-lived life.
At once sincere, cryptic, poignant, and raw, this collection of works celebrates the artistic symbiosis between composer and performer. King Mangoberry challenges us to celebrate an identity different from our own while questioning the very notion of identify itself. Pataruco teaches us to reimagine the possibilities of an instrument we think we know. El Muro builds, and subsequently tears down, walls.
KING MANGOBERRY: Five Allegories for Wind Symphony (2017)
King Mangoberry’s Triumphant Entrance
Princess Cherrygus Reveals Her Dream
Sir Lempple Contemplates His Reflection in the Mirror
Court Jester Rumffee’s Juggling Fixation
Wizard Walconut’s Unwelcome Spell & Exit of King Mangoberry’s Entourage
PATARUCO: Concerto for Venezuelan Maracas And Winds Symphony (1999/2019)
EL MURO (2008)