This cat looks like it's thinking, "far out, man!".... The Argentinian composer Alberto Ginastera is considered one of the most important 20th century composers from the Americas. His music is influenced by Argentinian folk music and also composers like Bartók and Copland. Ginastera got on the wrong side of the Perón regime and lived abroad for many years, especially the U.S. and Switzerland. In 1973, the prog rock group Emerson, Lake, and Palmer did a version of one of his pieces on their "Brain Salad Surgery" album. Ginastera's works include three operas, two piano concertos, a harp concerto and a violin concerto, numerous vocal and chamber works and works for piano. A few years ago the St. Louis Symphony performed his lovely "Variaciones concertantes." Ginastera was born April 11, 1916.
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