Interpreted by OSUG, the piece of the Mexican musician Adalberto Tovar premeired in the Teatro Grande de Brescia

Guanajuato, Gto., June 11, 2017.- "For me the inspiration relies on sound itself, on writing music that for their own timbral and sound means say something to the public", that is how "Acoustic Meditations" was born, with a relation towards sound, towards the structure of sound.

"I have little music that refers to something external such as a landscape, a painting, a relation towards the sound, the structure of sound, the structure of music itself, towards the forms; in that sense, this piece has its fundament, all its base, in a series of meditations and reflections about the own nature of the sound phenomenon", assures his author, Adalberto Tovar.

Graduate from the University of Guanajuato, where he studies Music and the specialty in Composition, Adalberto Tovar says he isn't trying to send a specific message with his music: "I try to vert and make patent certain aspects of the sound phenomenon, of the acoustic phenomenon, which for me are important and let the listener interpret it in a programmatic form everyone has, that everyone interprets what it touches their internal fibers."

In an interview, before the premiere of the work "Acoustic Meditations" in the emblematic Grand Theatre of Brescia, Italy, the young Mexican composer adds that he is not trying to say nothing concrete to the listeners "but simply expose the vibrations in the air".

Adalberto Tovar considers that taking the music of young Mexican authors to other continents is a "very important work" of the Symphony Orchestra of the University of Guanajuato (OSUG) and the work of Beltrán Zavala "because it is true that we have a great tradition of composing inside the country which comes from Chávez to Mario Lavista, Quintanar and all the great composers, it is also true that the generation I belong to (...), is a generation that requires exposing."

For the young author, "we aren't in the strictly academic panorama yet, but I think that we also have a lot to contribute in the musical panorama of today's Mexico, so I think in another Mexico, I feel this is the Mexico of today that refers and tributes the past but, without a doubt, it also proposes something different to the world of music."

However, Adalberto Tovar thinks is not right to be considered as a contemporary musician "it would be a mistake because it takes you to a definition that assumes many things, that you have a specific aesthetic. So, I believe that the most important is that we are live musicians, that we are here to defend the aesthetic, to make it patent; there is no musicological interpretation, but we are here to say how our music should sound."

In this sense, the musician expresses his thanks to OSUG "which dared to do this because, independently of the Director's programming which is the first step, the willingness he has shown to the orchestra to make today's music, makes us very lucky musicians."

Adalberto Tovar, who has written music for several years and currently collaborates in the administration of the Orchestra as Personnel Coordinator, reflects that the premiere of his work in Europe is due to a "series of fortunate factors that have to conjugate for this to happen, an orchestral work is extremely complex, from its creation until its production and for it to premiere and produced in Europe –not for the fact that is Europe but the fact that travels to a different continent—,makes very lucky in the first place and I'm very thankful with all the people I have been involved with, from the University of Guanajuato and its authorities to the forum technicians."

"The fact that is here and in this theatre, (...) I think it covers the objective: present the music or my music for a large audience, an audience with a lot people not only for a half full hall, just to say it premiered elsewhere, but really works in the terms of the fundamental teleology for the composer, since composing brings many people to your music".

About OSUG's tour in Europe because of its 65th anniversary, Adalberto Tovar says that "it has done an excellent work, the response of the audiences has been exceptional, the answer of the soloists who have been with us has been surprising, because they are having very positive experience with the orchestra and this is only and exclusively because of the willingness of each of the musicians who is in the lecterns.

It is about, he explains, "a very disciplined orchestra, aware and with attitude to do things with pleasure and commitment (...) which has always reigned OSUG: a commitment and a passion that transcend beyond the technique and takes them places, aesthetically speaking, which are quite complex to reach and that distinguishes them and has made the difference in this tour.