By: Felipe Argote
In this country, where the streets and avenues are filled with names of those who did little or nothing to Panama, where he was great monuments stand politicians, military and other individuals with similar names, few know the name of Roque Cordero. The Panama is the biggest reason why you know the name of our country in the international classical music scene, both for his long career as for his writings, especially the course of music theory used in the University of Panama, Puerto Rico, Mexico and Venezuela.
Roque Cordero was born in Panama City in 1917. It was a self-taught until his majority, when to his obvious musical genius was attended by a maximum Arrate Boza in school arts and crafts and then by Pedro Rebolledo and Herbert de Castro at the National Conservatory. The latter presented it to pianist Myrion Sheaffer passing through Panama, who, seeing his natural talent he filed a scholarship to study music education at the University of Minnesota in 1943 for nine months. He went on to take classes in composition with the Austrian Ernst Krenek at Hamline University. Bachellor of Art won with great Cum Laude. After studying conducting with Dimitri Mitropoulus who becomes his mentor and patron. In his honor Roque puts the name of her second son Dimitri. He later received a Guggenheim Fellowship awarded to the best artists. He received several medals: Caro Boesi Award, the American Festival of Caracas for his Second Symphony and Koussevitzky International Award for recording, by recording his Concerto for violin and orchestra.
returned to Panama for the position of Director of the National Conservatory and director of the symphony orchestra to go abroad again where I get to occupy the chair until his retirement in music composition University of Illinois. A withdrawal was declared a distinguished professor emeritus of this university. It is the most distinguished and prolific author who was born in Panama and although, as he said in an interview in 1971, I had to go with my music somewhere else "in his musical compositions always had in mind its roots. Test are his compositions for orchestra interioranos Capricho (1939), Panamanian Overture No. 2 (1944); Rapsodia Campesina (1953),
Other compositions include orchestral Adagio Tragic strings (1955), Symphony No. 2 (1956) Five Short Message (1959), Symphony with a Theme and Five Variations, No. 3 (1965), Elegy for string orchestra (1973), Momentum Jubilee (l973); Six Phones (1975), Symphony No. 4, Panama, (1986), Joyous Fantasy (1994), a Centennial Tribute Symphony (1997), among others. Solo and orchestra composed Piano Concerto in E minor (1944); Post Funeral for solo clarinet and string orchestra (1961), Violin Concerto (1962), Concertino for viola and string orchestra (1968), Concerto No. 2 for piano and orchestra (2001). For piano, include, Prelude to Empty Cradle (1943), Nostalgia (1943), Sonatina Rhythm (1943); Nine Preludes (1947), Short Sonata (1966), New Five Preludes (1983), Sonata (1985); Three Meditations Poetry (1995), etc. For two piano: Rhapsody (1945); Duo 1954 (1954), for piano and violin: Two Short Pieces (1945), Sonatina (1946), Double Concerto without orchestra, for violin and piano (1978), etc. Chamber Music: 4 String Quartets (1960, 1968, 1973 and 1983), Dance in the form of Fugue for string quartet (1943), Quintet for piano, violin, cello, flute and clarinet (1949), Short Message, for flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon (1957), Short Message for clarinet and bassoon (1958), Three Short Message for viola and piano (1966), Convolutions and Mobile for 57 instrumentalists (1967); Permutations 7 for clarinet, trumpet , timpani, violin, viola, bass and piano (1967), Paz, Paix, Peace, four trios and harp (1969), Soliloquies No. 1 for solo flute (1975), Variations and Theme for five for woods quintet (1975), Soliloquies N ° 2 for solo saxophone (1976); Soliloquies No. 3 for solo clarinet; Duet for Oboe and Bassoon (1996), three times 13, for harp (1997). Other instrumental works are Music Twenty Roque Cordero, Three Permutations for violin, cello and bass; Night poetic Min River, for flute, bass clarinet, marimba and percussion (1981), Soliloquies N ° 4 for Percussion (1981), Soliloquies N No. 5 for solo contrabass (1981), Soliloquies for cello N ° 6 single (1992), Sonata for cello (1963), Music for Five Metals (1980); Three Miniminiaturas for flute and clarinet (1985); Dodecaconcerto (1990); Four messages for flute and piano (1991), etc., for chorus Psalm 113 for chorus a cappella (1944), Patria (1944); Sensemayá, for mixed choir and drum (1950), Canon No. 1 for chorus a cappella (1961), two small pieces Corales (1966) and Music for An Ocean Tule Panamanian film (1971)
In 1966 Hamline University awarded him an honorary doctorate.
died in 2008 at the age of 91.
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