Ficciones

Short film, 2023

Online

Description

Ficciones is an immersive concert film experience featuring Roberto Sierra’s newly commissioned Concerto for Electric Violin, which presents a mixture of Sierra’s Latin-influenced ideas and modern compositional techniques through the voice of the electric violin, performed by the renowned soloist Tracy Silverman. Captured in high definition with expert sound engineering.

Jimi Hendrix would have been proud —New York Classical Review

The Puerto Rican composer based his four-movement concerto on short stories by the late, great Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges. The piece received its world premiere on June 5, 2022 in New York, NY at the Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall by the American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein with soloist Tracy Silverman.

Support for the production of Ficciones can be made through online donations here.

Details

Short film, 2023
29 minutes
Online
Free

Program

ROBERTO SIERRA (b. 1953)
Ficciones, Concerto for Electric Violin and Orchestra (2022)

I. Aleph
II. Tlön
III. Asterión
IV. Flaminio

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Artists

Silverman

Tracy Silverman, Electric Violin

Leon Botstein, music director
Tracy Silverman, electric violin

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