Abstract:Silvestre Revueltas’s Second String Quartet premiered in Mexico City 1931, and was played a year later at Aaron Copland’s Yaddo Festival in Saratoga Springs. When Copland heard the work, he described it as “very amusing... a little Mexican drama, and I could easily imagine it being danced.” Copland’s description treats the quartet as a unified whole that all functions seamlessly under a US gaze. But he missed many elements of the music—most glaringly, the canción that forms the primary theme (and also subtitle… Show more
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