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Dennis Llinás: LA CHANCLA. Vanderbilt Wind Symphony

Vanderbilt Wind Symphony Thomas Verrier, Conductor Thomas Caneva, Guest Conductor American Bandmasters Association 90th Convention 2025 La Chanela by Dennis Llinás was commissioned by a consortium led by Thomas Verrier and Vanderbilt University. The vision was to create a work that could be made available to ensembles in Central and South America that have limited budgets. For each participant from the United States, a copy of La Chancla was donated to a deserving Latin American band, and in total 43 institutions participated in the project. Of the piece, the composer writes: "'La Chancla' is Spanish for a slipper - more accurately a flip flop. While Cubans usually say 'chancleta,' Puerto Ricans refer to it as 'chancla.' It is a common meme or joke among Hispanics that a mother with a chancla in her hand could get an entire room of unruly kids in line. It is the Excalibur of Hispanic mothers and grandmothers everywhere and so I thought it would be a fun project to write a piece with this title and play between the mythical and merengue. The mythical element to La Chancla is represented by a combination of whole-tone and octatonic collections. The merengue stands in stark contrast to the mythical representing the culture through more conservative functional harmony but intense rhythmic vitality. The piece is not programmatic - just a fun collection of these styles and the interplay between them." Dennis Llinás is a Cuban-Columbian conductor and composer. He is the director of bands at the University of Oregon. A native of Hialeah, FL, Llinás studied at Florida International University & the University of Texas. He has presented sessions at the Midwest Clinic, WASBE, TMEA (Texas), FMEA, and CBDNA. His compositions and arrangements have been widely performed and recorded.