Cristina Spinei: Bio from Metropolis Ensemble on Vimeo.
Monday, November 9, 2009
Friday, November 6, 2009
JOLT
Last week I did a video interview for my upcoming premiere JOLT with the Metropolis Ensemble. This is the most excited I've ever been about a composition, in addition to the chamber orchestra I had three percussionists to work with!!! I'm posting the music that inspired me to write JOLT. This is from the Festa de Yemanja in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Monday, July 6, 2009
BLIND EAR MUSIC VIDEO
The Blind Ear video is finished! Now we're putting together our next concert at the Gershwin Hotel, July 21st.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhESejIckYU&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhESejIckYU&feature=channel
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Monday, February 9, 2009
Homecoming
I'm back in the freezing cold East Coast. I miss Brazil but I have a lot of planning to do for the debut of Blind Ear at the Gershwin Hotel on February 26th. Luckily Jakub and I have found 12 fabulous musicians who are willing to perform for us for free. I just need a few more violinists and we're done with the programming. (Why is it always so hard to find violinists? There are so many of them!)
Sunday, February 1, 2009
I'm Eating...What?!
One of the things I love most about Salvador besides the music is the food here. For a month I've been living on feijoada, muceca de peixe, acaraje, acai, and an abundant about of pimenta (hot sauce). I've noticed waiters giving me funny looks when I drench my plate with pimenta or when I eat things that have no english translation for them. The waiters inevitably ask my Brazilian friends if I know what I'm doing and still look at me like I'm a crazy gringa.
Last night I went to a 24 hour cafe geared for tourists that unfortunately had english translations under all of the items on the menu. I found out that "combi," one of the best post-concert snacks, isn't hamburger meat at all but "the insides of the cow." Or in other words cow intestines (and who knows what else). Ugh, I don't think I would be able to eat that at 3am again knowing what it is. Another one of my favorites carne de sol isn't the salted, dried beef that I thought I was eating. It's translation on the informative menu was "salted ass" which was then clarified as donkey. With as much carne de sol as I've been eating here I probably consumed an entire donkey by now!
Maybe I'm a little too squeamish but knowing what I'm eating ruins it for me. I think I would rather remain happily clueless rather than knowing that I ate horse and donkey and intestines, and skunk, although all of it is delicious. Tonight I'm going to a restaurant that is actually a stone masonry by day and a "ghetto comfort food" restaurant by night. I'm told that they have no menus and the waiters just bring out food. I'm sure I'll enjoy my mystery meat!
Last night I went to a 24 hour cafe geared for tourists that unfortunately had english translations under all of the items on the menu. I found out that "combi," one of the best post-concert snacks, isn't hamburger meat at all but "the insides of the cow." Or in other words cow intestines (and who knows what else). Ugh, I don't think I would be able to eat that at 3am again knowing what it is. Another one of my favorites carne de sol isn't the salted, dried beef that I thought I was eating. It's translation on the informative menu was "salted ass" which was then clarified as donkey. With as much carne de sol as I've been eating here I probably consumed an entire donkey by now!
Maybe I'm a little too squeamish but knowing what I'm eating ruins it for me. I think I would rather remain happily clueless rather than knowing that I ate horse and donkey and intestines, and skunk, although all of it is delicious. Tonight I'm going to a restaurant that is actually a stone masonry by day and a "ghetto comfort food" restaurant by night. I'm told that they have no menus and the waiters just bring out food. I'm sure I'll enjoy my mystery meat!
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