Waltz on Request - Mañanita Caraqueña

It's the time! Finally, it's time to start to fulfill the promises, requests for compositions, collaborations, and challenges as I am doing terribly with these things. I am not making it up, it is true! There are some agreements that I am postponing for several months already, and one of the first ones I owe a collaboration to is @andrewmusic, the god-level electric guitar player! I saw one of his posts yesterday, playing awesomely, so mi, what are you waiting for?? What? Also, EdPrivat had to step away from a joint project, as...yeah, I have not done my part of the song Jealous. There is also one Tchaikovsky piece that was requested and I also want to respond to a Spead the vibes post as soon as possible. Mañana, the perfect phenomenon where I would not think about anything and what I have to do or not, is always escaping me, I never reach it and I don't know where to find it. However, at least one Mañanita I was able to reach. Mañanita Caraqueña, a composition I was requested to play some time ago by a hive user @osomeltrozo from Venezuela.

This talented and funny hiver shared the scores in the comment where he nicely suggested to me that he would like to hear me playing this piano piece. I printed out the music sheets and practiced for about 10 days this waltz. It seems light, bright, calm in the beginning and end, and cheerful in the middle section. As I have never ever played anything by any Venezuelan composer, I had to look at who the composer was and what about the style, but there was not so much information on English about this composer. I found in Spanish, that Evencio Castellano was a pianist, organist, and composer, born in 1916. He graduated in 1944 as a teacher and composer and he was studying in New York from 1947 to 1949 piano improvement. He acted as a Chapel teacher at Caracas Cathedral, was teaching at the Higher School of Music, and founded the Collegium Musicum in Caracas. But, instead of his biography, let us see how do I feel about this piece. Never heard any other piece from this composer, but I loved it. It was a bit challenging, in the beginning, to figure out the rhythm and harmony, as I wanted to learn it just from the written text before any hearing experience. Just me reading it and interpreting it in my way. Now, when I learned and recorded, I listened to another recording. I play it slower, at my pace, but cheering up in the middle section. The visualization: morning sun playing on the roofs of a city, where I have never been before.

Maybe because of that, I have chosen to add some short videos in addition to my playing, catching some details from a painting I saw in a small exhibition. The painting represents Madrid, not Caracas, but still, I found it perfect with its vibrant colours! The painter is Pepa Vázquez, and the title of the painting is funny: Madriz, Madriz... I like especially the vibrant purple, blue and yellow details, and some contrasting green details - trees- in the concrete jungle of the capital of Spain.

Estimado @osomeltrozo, aquí viene tu solicitud. Espero que te guste, practiqué este vals con mucho gusto y no sé si he captado la vibra de la obra. Tendrás que escucharlo y decirmelo, pero honestamente. Espero tu respuesta y con la esperanza que ha merecido la pena esperar esta interpretación. Un gran saludo ;)

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