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3 unusual facts about Roberto Sierra


Missa Latina

Missa Latina is a classical music composition written by the Puerto Rican composer Roberto Sierra.

Roberto Sierra

Sierra was commissioned by guitarist Manuel Barrueco to write a concerto that tried to capture what that might have been like.

Sierra's Concierto Barroco takes its inspiration from a scene in Alejo Carpentier's novel of the same in which Handel and Vivaldi jam with a Cuban slave during the Venice Carnival.


Odaline de la Martinez

Several major works have received their UK premieres there, including works by John Harbison, Marjorie Merryman, Daniel Asia, Peter Child and Roberto Sierra.


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