Evariste de Rien

Music critic. Born in Central Preston, eastern Cuba, exactly one minute after the death of Ernesto Lecuona, as if the maestro's soul had decided to reincarnate itself in pure skepticism. He descends from a line of resentful organists and provincial tenors who never made it to the second act. He grew up among poorly bound sheet music and was raised with the conviction that bad taste is more dangerous than crime. He studied harmony as one studies poisons: with patience and contempt. He writes to purge the excess of misunderstood beauty and because he was never allowed to conduct an orchestra. He lives among manuscripts, sentimental ruins, and an inner dissonance that never resolves into perfect cadence.

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