Ensueño y Danza for solo guitar (2019)
Ensueño y Danza was commissioned by the Florida-based Puerto Rican guitarist Samuel Ortiz in 2019. It was premiered by Samuel as a YouTube music video released in the fall of 2020, when the continuing COVID pandemic made a public concert premiere impossible.
After a dream-like, free-association opening section with a hint of Romanticism, the composition settles into a rhythmic groove that channels a variety of Latin dance styles, in particular son montuno and cha-cha-cha, occasionally flavored by American blues and jazz as well as echoes of the third movement of Barrios’ La Catedral.
Olga would like to thank Rene Izquierdo for his fingering suggestions in the final stage of editing this piece for publication.