''Redes'' is a film score by
Silvestre Revueltas
Silvestre Revueltas Sánchez (December 31, 1899 – October 5, 1940) was a Mexican classical music composer, a violinist, and conductor.
Life
Revueltas was born in Santiago Papasquiaro in Durango, and studied at the National Conservatory of Mu ...
for the 1936
eponymous film directed by
Fred Zinnemann
Alfred Zinnemann (April 29, 1907 – March 14, 1997) was an American film director and producer. He won four Academy Awards for directing and producing films in various genres, including thriller film, thrillers, western (genre), westerns, film ...
and
Emilio Gómez Muriel
Emilio Gómez Muriel was a prolific Mexican film director, active between the 1930s and the 1970s.
He is known for melodramas, but one of his first films was ''Redes'' (release: 1936), an attempt at social cinema with a mostly non-professional ...
. ''Redes'' means "nets" in Spanish. It was the composer's first film score, begun in 1934, when he visited the film crew on location in
Alvarado, Veracruz
''Alvarado'' (officially: ''Ilustre, Heroica y Generosa Ciudad y Puerto de Alvarado'') is a city in the Mexican state of Veracruz. The city also serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of the same name. It is located from ...
. The film concerns the efforts of exploited fishermen to unite. In the US it was issued as ''The Wave''.
[Notes to Naxos CD 8.574350 (2022)]
by Joseph Horowitz
Joseph Horowitz (born 1948 in New York City) is an American cultural historian who writes mainly about the institutional history of classical music in the United States. As a concert producer, he promotes thematic programming and new concert f ...
Concert versions
Revueltas
arranged
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a concert version which he premiered in 1936, the same year as the film was released. However, in concert performance the music is usually heard in an arrangement by
Erich Kleiber
Erich Kleiber (5 August 1890 – 27 January 1956) was an Austrian, later Argentine, conductor, known for his interpretations of the classics and as an advocate of Neue Musik.
Kleiber was born in Vienna, and after studying at the Prague Conser ...
, made in the 1940s after the composer's death. Kleiber's version is in two parts and lasts about 16 minutes.
*Part I
**The Fisherman
**The Child’s Funeral
**Setting Out to Fish
*Part II
**The Fight
**The Return of the Fishermen with Their Dead Friend
Critical reception
In his ''
New York Times
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'' review,
Aaron Copland
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commented that the music of Revueltas is "above all vibrant and colorful". He regarded this score to possess "many of the qualities characteristic of Revueltas's art". He added:
Recordings
The complete score has been recorded by the
PostClassical Ensemble conducted by
Angel Gil-Ordoñez for a version of the film released on DVD by
Naxos
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in 2016. A CD of music from the score by the same performers without narration or dialogue (duration 34.17 minutes, twice the length of the usual concert versions) was issued in 2022, paired with Copland's ''The City'' (1939).
''Two Classic Political Film Scores'', Naxos 8.574350
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References
Further reading
* Bowles, Paul. ''Paul Bowles on Music'', edited by Timothy Mangan and Irene Hermann. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press; London: University of California Press, 2003. .
* Contreras Soto, Eduardo. ''Silvestre Revueltas: baile, duelo y son''. Teoría y práctica del arte. México, D. F.: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, Dirección General de Publicaciones, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, 2000.
* Estrada, Julio. ''Canto roto: Silvestre Revueltas''. Vida y Pensamiente de México. México, D. F.: Fondo de Cultura Económica, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2012. .
* Garland, Peter. ''In Search of Silvestre Revueltas: Essays 1978–1990''. Santa Fe: Soundings Press, 1991.
* Giro, Radamés. ''Imágen de Silvestre Revueltas''. México, D. F.: Presencia Latinoamericana, 1983.
* Kolb Neuhaus, Roberto. "''Redes'': La versión de concierto de Silvestre Revueltas". ''Pauta'', nos. 87–88 (July–December 2003): 38–53.
* Kolb Neuhaus, Roberto.
Silvestre Revueltas's ''Redes'': Composing for Film or Filming for Music?
''The Journal of Film Music'' 2, nos. 2–4 (Winter 2009): 127–144.
* Mayer-Serra, Otto. "Silvestre Revueltas and Musical Nationalism in Mexico". ''The Musical Quarterly
''The Musical Quarterly'' is the oldest academic journal on music in America. Originally established in 1915 by Oscar Sonneck, the journal was edited by Sonneck until his death in 1928. Sonneck was succeeded by a number of editors, including C ...
'' 27, no. 2 (April 1941): 123–145.
* Nugent, Frank. S.br>"The Screen: At the Filmarte: ''The Wave''"
''The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of ...
'' (21 April 1937): 18.
* Slonimsky, Nicolas
Nicolas Slonimsky ( – December 25, 1995), born Nikolai Leonidovich Slonimskiy (), was a Russian-born American musicologist, conductor, pianist, and composer. Best known for his writing and musical reference work, he wrote the ''Thesaurus ...
. ''Music in Latin America''. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1945.
* Teibler-Vondrak, Antonia. ''Silvestre Revueltas: Musik für Bühne und Film''. Wiener Schriften zur Stilkunde und Aufführungspraxis: Sonderband 6. Vienna, Cologne, and Weimar: Böhlau Verlag, 2011. .
External links
* , Sydney Conservatorium of Music
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Symphony Orchestra, Eduardo Diazmuñoz conducting
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Films scored by Silvestre Revueltas
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