The second-movement tango ('Tangle') was written in
March 2009 at the request of Jacksonville Symphony
players. The other movements were added soon after, and
tunes used in both the first-movement samba ('Hoodoo')
and fourth-movement rumba ('Rumor') are melodic
transformations of the main 'Tangle' theme.
The third movement, 'La llorona' ("The Weeping Woman"),
combines the famous Latin-American folk-song (about a
ghost who haunts waterways searching for her drowned
children) with the 'Dies irae' plainchant from the mass
for the dead.
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