Peter Child: Reviews: The Jaguar and the Moon -- Four Poems of Pablo Antonio Cuadra Composed 1992, for soprano and guitar. Excerpt from by Richard Buell Peter Child's song cycle "Jaguar and the Moon," to texts by the
Nicaraguan poet Pablo Antonio Cuadra conjured up an atmosphere and
sustained it. From song to song, or within individual ones, you felt
the tension between luxuriance and economy, expression and its denial,
the contrasting personalities of voice and guitar. Maria Tegzes
(soprano) and William Curtis (guitar) did well by the variety and
eloquence of this well-crafted music.
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