by Orlando Jacinto García | Oct 26, 2022 | Reviews
A recent review of the premiere of my work oscuro sobre luz blanco sobre rojo can be found in the Spanish Scherzo journal. The review in Spanish by distinguished composer, writer, and one of Spain’s leading cultural figures, Tomas Marco, cited that the work...
by Orlando Jacinto García | Sep 19, 2022 | Reviews
This past April, Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra Board Member Kris Kautzman gave his impressions of my music after listening to Orlando Jacinto Garcia Orchestral Music Volume 2 on Toccata Classics. In the article the music was described as lyrical and minimal while...
by Orlando Jacinto García | Jan 31, 2022 | Reviews
Rafael de Acha states in his year end All About the Arts Blog: Orlando Jacinto García’s music spins continuously while minute changes of texture and tone happen imperceptibly in a METIER release to which one must listen attentively, the rewards then to be derived...
by Orlando Jacinto García | Oct 24, 2021 | Reviews
Intriguingly complex and moving: the music of Orlando Jacinto García The prolific Cuban American composer Orlando Jacinto García recorded three of his string quartets with the invaluable Amernet Quartet for METIER. The CD came to my attention as a result of his having...
by Orlando Jacinto García | May 5, 2021 | Reviews
A recent review of my latest album appeared in Gapplegate Classical-Modern Music Review where the reviewer stated “If you live with this music for awhile like I have you may well find it a special thing, serious and expressive, thoughtful and in its own way a...
by Orlando Jacinto García | May 5, 2021 | Reviews
A recent review in Arcana quoted “More approachable and immediate as Garcia’s idiom has become, there is never any sense of his music courting easy appeal or popular acclaim. Rather, these quartets maintain a steady and methodical course akin to a thawing out or...