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Antonio Martinez

Searching for an Identity

La Jonquera: Ragtime for the Anguished Soul, Op.2 No.35

SM-000253813
Alternative title
La Jonquera: Ragtime para el Alma Apenada
Composer
Antonio Martinez
Publisher
Antonio Martinez
Genre
Jazz / Ragtime
Instrumentation
Piano
Scored for
Solo
Type of score
For a single performer
Key
E flat minor
Duration
3'27"
Difficulty
Very difficult
Year of composition
2016

Description
This melody is the thirty-fifth destination in the collection of the series "Ragtime at the Red Light District." This piece occurs at La Jonquera's Le Paradise.

The main character in this piece is a 27-year old hard-working bartender. This person seldom had any inspiration from women and, at times, took pride in this bad habit. That was until one day when two sleeping, homeless people approached the main character not asking for money, but rather holding a New York Times article dated April 6, 2012. These two people were apparitions of St. Emily de Vialar and St. Agnes of Rome. These saints condemned the main character's attitude of apathy. So the two saints power walked with the main character toward the Ruins of the Castell de Rocabertí.

It was there that these two saints stood along with four other women from La Jonquera, and these were women who came to the city against their will and dignity. These women told stories of how their dreams were broken and crushed by men whose characteristics were similar to that of the main character.

After two hours of listening to the women's stories, the main character entered Le Paradise, and the crude men running the area demanded the main character to indulge in revelry or risk death. The main character refused to submit and, on the brink of sudden death, ushered a quote from Fulton Sheen: "The level of any civilization is always the level of its womanhood." In one second, it would be the crude men that fell to the ground. The main character achieved redemption, knowing that he became grateful for the two saints. He even offered to take the four women to counsel and also find suitable men for them.

This piece has a format of 4AABBC4D4AA8. Dmitri Shostakovich's "Piano Concerto No. 2" and Suzanne Daley's article from the New York Times were the basis for this piece.

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20.08.2016

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