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Emilio Teubal is a 'Constant Reinventor'

One of the songs on Musica Para Un Dragon Dormido by pianist and composer Emilio Teubal is The Constant Reinventor. 

After listening to this new disc three times through, I wonder if that isn’t an autobiographical title. Each pass at this collection of original compositions by Teubal reveals a new mixture of notes, dynamics, shifting musical colors and emotions. Now based in New York City, Teubal is an Argentinean native. The music of his heritage weaves loosely in and out of the tunes, but this is not strictly tango jazz. Motifs from 20th century classical minimalistic styles butt up against rondo-like dance figures building to passionate climaxes. The textures of cello, piano and clarinet intertwine with six-string acoustic bass and percussion creating a music that breathes and moves with delicate yet deliberate resolve. This may not swing in the classic jazz sense, but is worthy of repeated listening and will appear again on the 89.1 Jazz playlist. It was pure pleasure to premiere Musica Para Un Dragon Dormido by Emilio Teubal this morning on WEMU.

Linda Yohn simply cannot remember a day in her life that was not filled with music. Her early life was full of changes as the daughter of a well-respected cancer research scientist who moved his family about, but one thing was constant: the love of music instilled by her mother. So, when it seemed life was too hard to bear, young Linda would listen to her radio, play her guitar, dance her heart out and sing at the top of her lungs. So, it isn’t so strange that “older” Linda still does all those things!