Pryor Baird - Night Moves (The Voice Performance)

PONSE, Ponce Cuellar (Ponce Cuellar) Manuel Maria (8 XII 1882, according to other sources, 1886, Fresnillo - 24 IV 1948, Mexico City) - mox. composer, conductor and teacher. Since 1901 he studied the game of fp. in Nat. Mexico City Conservatory, in 1904-06 studied composition at the Muses. Lyceum of Bologna (in M.E. Bossi and L, Torquay). In 1906-08 he studied with M. Krause (fp.) At the Stern Conservatory in Berlin. Since 1909 he led the class of fp. and taught the history of music in Nat. conservatory. In 1925-33 he lived in Paris (he took composition lessons from P. Duke). Returning to his homeland, was director of the Nat. conservatory (1934-35), in 1936 founded and headed the journal "Cultura musical". In 1945, director of the Higher Muses. Schools at Nat. Autonomous University of Mexico City. Among the most famous productions. P .: fp. concert (1912), symph. triptych “Chapultepec” (“Chapultepec”, 1929, 2nd edition. 1934), “Elegic poem” (1935), symph.divertissement “Fair” (“Ferial”, 1940), “Southern Concert” (“Concierto del Sur”, for guitar and orchestra, 1941; written for A. Segovia), skr. concert (1943). In 1941 he toured in the countries of the South. America, where he conducted his own concerts. P. is one of the leading Mexican composers of the 1st floor. 20 centuryHis op. marked bright nat. coloring. The name of P. is Mus. association in Mexico, promoting nat. muses art.