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Premiere: The original version
of this piece was premiered in the mid 90’s in the Greater Boston Area. The
orchestra version was created especially for Turkish flutist Sefika Kutluer and was performed for the first time in her album
“Latin Romance” by Sefika, accompanied by the Bratislava Strings Orchestra,
conducted by Marian Lejava. The recording took place on 2013 in Slovakia.
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Program Notes by José Elizondo:
“Princesa
de Hadas” was commissioned in 1996 by one of Elizondo’s close friends,
Argentine poet Patricio Méndez. Elizondo and Méndez met as students while
both were pursuing their Engineering studies at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. The title of this piece refers to a verse from one of Méndez’s
poems, where he describes his beloved as a “fairy tale princess.” The musical
material is deliberately simple, tonal, and lyrical, aiming to evoke the
innocence and romanticism of the world the poet created for his fairy tale
princess.
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