FULL VOLVER (Andrew Raffo Dewar) New York City 2018 Roland Burks

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Volver  
• Composer: Raffo Dewar Andrew   
• Libretto:  Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: The Flea Theater, New York City  
• Recorded: November 2, 2018
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Roland Burks
• Conductor:   
• Orchestra: Andrew Raffo Dewar, SYTHESIZER  
• Stage Director:   
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Format: DVD
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs, gensubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  During the 1930s, in part due to the economic difficulties of the time, Mexican-Americans were made the target of attacks based on the rhetoric of taking jobs from “real Americans” and were “repatriated” to Mexico under questionable legal and moral grounds. Volver (2018) sets to music excerpts from three rich oral histories collected by historian Christine Valenciana in the early 1970s — Emilia Castañeda de Valenciana and Carlos Munatones, who were both repatriated to Mexico in the ‘30s, and John Anson Ford, a mid-level bureaucratic functionary for Los Angeles County and a reticent participant in the “repatriation.”

  Andrew Raffo is a composer, soprano saxophonist, electronic musician, ethnomusicologist, and arts organizer whose work has been performed or installed throughout North America, Southeast Asia, and Europe. He appears on nearly two dozen recordings, including study/work with experimental music innovators Anthony Braxton, Bill Dixon, Steve Lacy and Alvin Lucier. He has received support for his work from the National Endowment for the Arts, Chamber Music America, The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, NewMusicUSA, ASCAP, the Getty Foundation, Arts International, Meet The Composer, The San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Dewar is an Associate Professor in New College and the School of Music at the University of Alabama.

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