A student recital presented at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.

Recording of José Halac's India vieja que pretebde volverse joven Tomando sangre de condor. The India vieja (old Indian woman) sings the Baguala, (traditional folk song from the West North of Argentina) expressing her wish to become young by means of drinking the blood of the Condor (immense and majestic bird from that area), in order to be able to enjoy sex and life once again. This beautiful and magical idea inspired me to create this piece. Originally she says the text first beating her "Caja" (Indian snare drum) and then she sings the same text also using her caja. Before I decided that my input would be "in between" the spoken and the sung sections, imposing the idea of getting old all along the piece, using the speed of the words and the stretching of the voices to reflect the idea. The result is at the same time mystical and depicting age, so that there is still a chance of going back in time, of becoming young again even with the strong and irrevocable reality imposed by myself. Both the beginning spoken section of the Indian and the last sung section, have been stretch to give a sensation of …