Leo Brouwer: Rhythm is UNIMPORTANT (Un Día De Noviembre)

Leo Brouwer's masterpiece, Un Día De Noviembre, was originally written for a 1976 Cuban movie. In this exclusive video, maestro Leo Brouwer explains why he used subtle anti-romantic techniques to prevent the music from becoming a cliché and transform it into the unique gem it is today. He points out that rhythm is "not important" in this piece, and that in most of his music, he often "doesn't care" about melodies. Watch the video to learn more about the surprising ways in which he composes and conceives of his music!
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[@simondanielssonmusic]

This guy is a legend and I would probably never have picked up a classical guitar if not for his music.

[@JosePena-lk1gq]

You are absolutly right Mr Danielsson.I am cuban and for me ,as a guitar lover,he was and is, a real mussician,a living mith.

[@asapfilms2519]

He is a musician but talks like a filmmaker as if the guitar is a camera and the melody is the story. Beautiful.

[@asapfilms2519]

The concept of Story being the center piece in a film is equally trite as the melody being the centrepiece in a musical composition. Leo Brouwer echos the same approach when he is making his compositions.

[@asapfilms2519]

Banality comes from the popular notion of what is nice. It’s a cliche to say that minor chords reflect sadness and major chords reflect happiness.

[@rproctor83]

Just a few days ago I learned about Brouwers work and was immediately impressed with how dynamic and unique his compositions are. This channel is amazing.

[@soundknight]

His studies are awesome too, playing his works makes you a better player. You should listen to his recordings of Scarlatti!

[@rafaelmercado5056]

The studies are amazing, you learn so much with short and simple pieces but very effective. The first semester in the conservatory his studies were mandatory and they worked like a charm

[@christopherhanna5754]

His compositions are terrifyingly tricky and subtle and full of musical challenges that are not for the weak. It took nearly a decade of working at Sor, Carcassi, Giuliani, Bach, Segovia, Llobet, and others before I went back and even more clearly realized I was still nowhere near ready..... sigh .. humbling, Genius level musician.

[@ArtificialFertilizer]

On the other hand, his Estudios Sencillos are approachable and very interesting to play.

[@duobonafide3984]

Proud of our Cuban Maestro. Our Leo. Forever greatful of his talent and dedication to our culture. Thank you maestro.

[@nebovas9432]

I have to disappoint you. I have been in Cuba many times and I know some good guitarists there. I asked about Brouwer and they were always laughing. Never met a single Cuban who likes his music. He definitely is maestro of his kind but his connection with Cuban culture is more myth than reality. .

[@duobonafide3984]

@@nebovas9432 if you have visited Cuba as you say, please go again and try to go to the National Library or La Universidad de las Artes or at any another lnstitution like CENEART, also take your time to visit all the music school throughout the country, you can ask about him. Even here on KZbin you can watch interviews of Leo. Or go to Wikipedia. Do something else to become to know him. Have a good day.

[@nebovas9432]

@@duobonafide3984 I have visited museums, I have all recordings of Leo's music. But I didn't say a word about me, I am saying that his music is not loved by people outside of academic circles. Is it good or bad, I will let you decide yourself.

[@soundknight]

WOW! Never imagined you would get Brouwer to one of these. It's lovely hearing him speak.

[@francescodefendi3201]

Damn! Leo never grows old 💪🏼💪🏼😉😘

[@danielsamson9505]

thank you to Leo Brouwer for all his work in particular for these compositions for guitar which are for me a source of permanent ravishing, each listening is a new pleasure and a new discovery.

[@LostOriginalHQ]

This piece is the reason why I picked up the guitar . Thank you maestro !

[@chienbuggle4727]

Leo Brouwer: rhythm is unimportant Classical guitarists: say no more

[@directline2595]

Leo Thank you sir. from Iran

[@RobertoMartinez-kv5tp]

Gracias a la vida por regalarnos al Gran Maestro Leo Brouwer.

[@DannyMcCaffrey]

Been years since I picked up a nylon. But my friend gave me his dads right before we were to record, when I did it was what turns out to be memory of “Cuban Lullaby” and it’s melody. Anyways I’m back in love with the classical guitar even though it’s far from my work. And most of all I’m in love with Brouwers compositions. I get shit for being so rubato in other genres but coming across this video only gives me the morale that I’m not alone. And I learned it from Leo!

[@user-yz7pi2wl3x]

我13岁女儿说Leo brouwer是他的偶像，11月的那天是她最喜欢弹的曲子。感谢！

[@eggizgud]

Love his studies. So interesting technically and melodically.

[@MichaelChapdelaineofficial]

Fabulous!

[@AEMachinas]

This is incredible 🙏

[@mattbod]

It’s a lovely piece and accessible. It is one of those gems like Lagrima and the Sor B minor etude that always stay in your heart even as you progress to harder stuff.

[@sorartificial]

Thanks Leo

[@semme01]

I think its quite confusing that he says rhythm is unimportant. Does he mean accentuation? does he mean with rhythm the danger of clinging to a metronome. cause free flowing music like his wouldnt exist without rhythm. It makes no sense to devalue the importance of it without describing what he means. later he talks about impulse and how that also falls under the mainstream used term when we refer to rhythm. without ryhthm/impuls there is nothing. so what the heck does he mean by saying its unimportant.

[@tomm5023]

I wonder as well. This title made me watch as it opposes what I always thought was the most important. Pulse. Not sure if he talk solely about this piece or in general. Intriguing to say the least.

[@AmaranathRanatunga]

Great.

[@jesskxz]

He is a genius.

[@avatacron60]

Indeed.

[@guitaramateur4406]

Y pensar que el maestro Brouwer nos ha llevado a todos desde la Vanguardia hasta el 2023, tanto que ha servido, el mejor de nosotros.

[@travelthebest2676]

What a legend

[@drRGCRock]

Maestro Brower, genio y patriota.....

[@joseolivera650]

Leo pa rato ... my way to said ,Maestro Leo for ever ...

[@NelsondeQuinhones]

Thank you Master, my ex professor. What an honour.

[@ww3032]

Leo Brouwer is one of a kind. If I played like he suggested it would sound disastrous.

[@user-zv7gu9dw1v]

Grande

[@avatacron60]

Genius!

[@Roquea.207]

Didn’t imagine Leo Brouwer knew that English wow legend

[@Mtay2002]

what is the story of this music?

[@eloyhbermudez]

a good example of a tune in major tonality which is pretty depressing mood is Love will tear us appart by Joy Division

[@jacksongladdys1878]

👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼

[@davepowell7168]

Good ol' Bruisey Passages from your stuff is OK, fortunately I don't love it enough to memorise it. Bonfires for banality l agree 👍

[@lawrencetendler7747]

9 : 05 ¨ music should not affect this drama .¨

[@lawrencetendler7747]

A day in November.

[@PedroL-sr7nb]

Has he never heard of Bossa Nova?

[@alexstewart8097]

UN less he means as in the 3 Reyes Magos...Shema!!!.

[@alexstewart8097]

It has nothing to do with ''magic'', but instead with plenty of faith in God and your fellow men, since after all and from the beginning , Brouwer' s type of music, classical music came out of the convents of a Christian Europe, just like the universities, the scientific method and even the religious orders run hospitals did. Hope that Brouwer is fighting his own ''darkness'', and seeking the real light of the world ,vela en mano or not, before walking upstairs for real, like Milanes AeLready has (whose concert in Radio Centro , with another then young guitar player, my mother also gone now, went to UN DIA DE NOVIEMBRE IN 1963 , rain and all. And that's an honest to God TRUE story), since what good is it though, for a man to gain everything on earth, if he loses his soul in the process ... The robolutionary process in this case that is, of big time grifters like Raul Castro ''living la vida loca'' in his last years (if el Gallego Fidel , who didn't play that, could see him now, Raul for sure would piss himself in the pants all over again) in his majestically renovated Italian palazzetto , and of people like Raul's own grandson ''el cangrejo'' with his 3 million dollars yacht, and of others, like Brouwer, who lent himself as a propaganda tool and worse (like his own daughter and Barrueco publicly made it known) to be of use to the ruthless and impoverishing Castro brothers' regime , living for himself, in the beautiful city of Cordoba in Spain, Europe ''the good life'' of an entitled bourgeois capitalist, all along lying and virtue signalling to the rest of the world that he was a dedicated SJW of the marxist kind , while the majority of his Cuban compatriots back in the island were called by their government to endure more hardship and were forced to sacrifice to build a '' workers' socialist paradise'', that after 60 years and counting, it hasn't materialized... but things have only gotten worse , making most Cubans live hopeless lives of more than quiet desperation in total abject poverty; the result , as told to them by their state control fakenews media, of the American embargo, which somehow has caused no harm in the least, to the luxurious lives of super abundance and excess of them grifters, the pseudo socialist elites in charge in the island to the detriment of everybody else , their mother in law and their dog too down there. But if they don't repent , change their ways and make amends to their victims, a special kind of hell for sure awaits them authoritarian cynics , if only for hijacking the hopes and aspirations of the vast majority, who in 1959 only wanted the rule of law , democracy and more prosperity for Cuba in 1959 and beyond, like they also did in Venezuela , mind you, but who instead in fear for their lives , and with great disappointment in the ugly, sad and tragic turn of events in their country , certainly not for the good though (that being an understatement if ever there was one) fled into exile , mostly to Miami, Florida. Guitarrita or not, it's no longer playing time, instead...Shema!!!!

[@juliabrouwer1284]

Leo Brouwer spent no longer than 10 years of his life in Córdoba and then left to live most of his life back in Cuba just like he left United States as the youngest university professor at that time in Connecticut University to go back to Cuba when the revolution happened. He's always lived in Cuba and only left for work, tours and other projects so shush.

[@DaTLMusic]

Leave youtube commentors to turn a beautiful neutral interpretation into a controversial political one

[@guitaramateur4406]

The same thing we are going to say to all the musicians and directors who have played for an American president, some governors, senators... murderers, etc. So, is this argument really valid when we talk about leo, or any other musician or composer?Greetings!

[@ChildrenOfDemiurgos]

Leo is extraordinary. He's a true artist and we cubans are lucky to have him.