About the show
One of ENCIM's most celebrated performances.
Comissoned originally by the Arte Careyes Film & Art Festival in 2014, 3 episodes from ¡Qué viva México! is an original cue sheet by José Serralde later arranged and developed by Ensamble Cine Mudo (Álvarez and Zerquera) for the screening of Alexandrov's 1976 montage proposal of Einsenstein's unfinished work.
The Ensemble was proposed by Filmoteca UNAM to Festival's film curator Marina Stavenhagen, whose idea was to setup a show exposing the power of restored films and live music, in the most appealing format. She selected three episodes by the Russian master giving birth to this work.
The musical rendering is an imaginary meeting of the aeshtetics left by the Soviet and Mexican Revolutions, after Ensemble Cine Mudo understanding of the music of Silvestre Revueltas, Carlos Chávez, Dmitri Shostakovich and other authors. The Ensemble performs musical citations, written passages, traditional mexican music, educated speculation of a possible musical meetup between Revueltas and Dmitri Shostakovich amidst silent film music improvisation.
Performers
- José María Serralde Ruiz, piano and artistic direction
- Omar Álvarez, violin
- Roberto Zerquera, percussion and drum set
Excerpt
Press
- Musica sul grande schermo - ilmanifesto.it (italian)
Musica sul grande schermo ... Oppure con il capolavoro Que viva Mexico! di Sergei Eisenstein musicato dal vivo al Teatro Nazionale dai musicisti messicani dell Ensamble Cine Mudo... - 17.08.2016: "¡QUE VIVA MÉXICO! Muzika za Eisensteina večeras u Narodnom pozorištu"
En el sitio del Festival (english) y en la prensa local klix.ba (bosnian)
Publika će večeras u Narodnom pozorištu u 22:30 sati imati priliku da pogleda segmente filma ¡QUE VIVA MÉXICO! koje je montirala Filmoteka UNAM uz muzičku pratnju ansambla Ensamble de Cine Mudo koja će biti zasnovana na izvornom muzičkom skoru, ali uz improvizacije izvođača.
