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La Chancla

Available for purchase Summer of 2025.

Price: $300

Duration: 7:30

La ChanclaMIDI
00:00 / 07:40

La Chancla is Spanish for a sandal. While Cubans usually say "chancleta," Puerto Ricans refer to it as "chancla." It is a common meme or joke among Hispanics that a mother with a chancla in her hand could get an entire room of unruly kids in line or even chase away a bear (look it up on YouTube - it happened!). It is the Excalibur of Hispanic mothers and grandmothers everywhere and so I thought it would be a fun project to write a piece with this title and play between the mythical and merengue. The mythical element to La Chancla is represented by a combination of whole tone and octatonic collections. The merengue stands in stark contrast to the mythical representing the culture through the more conservative functional harmony but intense rhythmic vitality. The piece is not programmatic - just a fun collection of these styles and the interplay between them.

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