Chronicle-19 is a musical narrative based on IIiana’s experiences during the Covid 19 pandemic. She shared with me that she went through an incremental recovery process after a traumatic fainting spell during an online lesson. The first movement depicts the fog and disorientation that characterized the first stages of this recovery, with faint recollections of the Tarrega’s Gran Jota – one of Iliana’s signature concert pieces. The second tells of her gradual return to a relationship with the guitar aided by revisiting the music of J.S. Bach; the movement features a fugal subject developed from materials borrowed, once again, from the Jota. The third movement represents the fullness of her return in a virtuosic and joyful Maxixe, a kind of Latin-American polka.
