{"id":1368,"date":"2020-04-17T09:35:01","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T08:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/?p=1368"},"modified":"2020-04-17T09:35:03","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T08:35:03","slug":"we-are-the-music-makers-enquiry-into-maximum-ensemble-edition-number-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/2020\/04\/17\/we-are-the-music-makers-enquiry-into-maximum-ensemble-edition-number-100\/","title":{"rendered":"WE ARE THE MUSIC MAKERS:  ENQUIRY INTO MAXIMUM ENSEMBLE.  edition number 100"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>ENQUIRY INTO MAXIMUM ENSEMBLE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The e mail read:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b4Here are the responses of the five questions you asked for, from each member of the ensemble, with Melina\u2019s in the attached PDF. I had already seen the other interviews you did with the Russian girls, Iya Zhmaeva and Natalija Nicolaeva who performed Souvenirs Romantica in the Tias venue where you later saw us play, too! I found their interview when searching information about the place where we were going to perform, and came across Sidetracks and Detours all across the arts for the first time. I don\u2019t remember if I then sent you soundcloud links but, just in case, these are three of the pieces we played, two are from a concert in El Hierro and the video is from another one in Gran Canaria.&nbsp;I hope you and your dear ones are well. We\u2019re fine here at home, but miss so much going out for a stroll. There are so many things that we take for granted until we don\u2019t have them, aren\u2019t they?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kind regards, Ernesto Mateo, musician in Maximum Ensemble.\u00b4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So why not join us as we meet all four members of Maximum Ensemble in following sidetracks and detours all across the arts and meander through their music. Then, when you\u00b4ve read the interview below have a listen to.\u00b4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class='avia-iframe-wrap'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Barbara Heller - Lalai (violin and piano)\" width=\"1500\" height=\"844\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_jRJd-j7lc0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-soundcloud wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class='avia-iframe-wrap'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Yann Tiersen: La Noy\u00e9e by Ernesto Mateo\" width=\"1500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F637842747&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxwidth=1500&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;dnt=1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-soundcloud wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class='avia-iframe-wrap'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wim Mertens: Struggle for Pleasure (live) Piano-Violines-Flauta by Ernesto Mateo\" width=\"1500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F457372293&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxwidth=1500&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;dnt=1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Regular readers may well recall a recent review on these pages of a concert in Tias by Maximum Ensemble. It was in fact the last concert we saw before the lockdown on the island of Lanzarote but fortunately we managed to have a brief conversation with pianist and leader of the group, Ernest Mateo, after the performance. He kindly agreed to take part in the all across the arts \u00b4five bums at the bar\u00b4 interview, so called for reasons we have explained far too often to repeat here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/aata.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/maximum-ensemble-take-a-bow-1030x925.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1373\" width=\"211\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aata.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/maximum-ensemble-take-a-bow-1030x925.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/aata.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/maximum-ensemble-take-a-bow-300x270.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aata.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/maximum-ensemble-take-a-bow-768x690.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aata.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/maximum-ensemble-take-a-bow-1536x1380.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/aata.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/maximum-ensemble-take-a-bow-2048x1840.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/aata.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/maximum-ensemble-take-a-bow-1500x1348.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/aata.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/maximum-ensemble-take-a-bow-705x633.jpg 705w, https:\/\/aata.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/maximum-ensemble-take-a-bow-600x539.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><figcaption>Maximum Ensemble in Tias<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Ernesto and his three female fellow group members had delivered a performance we described in our review as being of \u00b4gentle, searching and often introspective sounds.\u00b4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following interview illustrates the great enjoyment each performer takes from delivering such concerts and exactly how much making music means to them. It might also serve to remind us, in these lockdown days, how much we are looking forward to hearing live music again. To turn Ernesto\u00b4s observation back into Joni Mitchell\u00b4s wry comment in song, \u00b4don\u00b4t it always seem to go, that you don\u00b4t know what you\u00b4ve got \u00b4till its gone?\u00b4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each band member submitted their own individual answers to the questions from Messrs. Who, What, When, Where, Why and gave us a fascinating insight into not only what first brings a band together but also what commonalities keep them together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our first responses came from Ernesto himself, and gave us the framework on which to place the answers that followed from his colleagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/aata.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ernest-mateo-pianist-and-musical-conductor-of-Maximum-Ensemble-956x1030.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1369\" width=\"343\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aata.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ernest-mateo-pianist-and-musical-conductor-of-Maximum-Ensemble-956x1030.jpg 956w, https:\/\/aata.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ernest-mateo-pianist-and-musical-conductor-of-Maximum-Ensemble-279x300.jpg 279w, https:\/\/aata.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ernest-mateo-pianist-and-musical-conductor-of-Maximum-Ensemble-768x827.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aata.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ernest-mateo-pianist-and-musical-conductor-of-Maximum-Ensemble-1426x1536.jpg 1426w, https:\/\/aata.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ernest-mateo-pianist-and-musical-conductor-of-Maximum-Ensemble-1902x2048.jpg 1902w, https:\/\/aata.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ernest-mateo-pianist-and-musical-conductor-of-Maximum-Ensemble-1393x1500.jpg 1393w, https:\/\/aata.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ernest-mateo-pianist-and-musical-conductor-of-Maximum-Ensemble-655x705.jpg 655w, https:\/\/aata.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ernest-mateo-pianist-and-musical-conductor-of-Maximum-Ensemble-600x646.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 343px) 100vw, 343px\" \/><figcaption>Ernesto Matteo<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>WHO is <strong>Ernesto Mateo<\/strong> and how did you arrive in Maximum Ensemble?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b4I\u2019m a pianist and composer from Gran Canaria. I have taught different matters at the Canarias\u2019 conservatories in the last decade (Improvisation, Piano, Harmony, Electronics, Composition\u2026). I created this ensemble when I was working at the Tenerife Conservatory as a piano accompanist. I had a concert and invited some of my pupils to collaborate playing some \u201cnot-conservatory\u201d music. We enjoyed very much working together, so we decided to look for new repertoire and tour the islands.\u00b4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WHAT<\/strong> role does your instrument undertake in the kind of ensemble music you play?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b4Our instrumentation is unusual, with three high instruments and only the piano for providing the low register. So, when we play as a quartet I tend to have a supporting role. But we play in some other configurations seeking for variety: solo, duos, and trios.\u00b4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WHEN<\/strong> do you first remember taking notice of music?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b4There was this episode of \u201cThe Pink Panther\u201d in which an orchestra tried to rehearse Beethoven\u2019s 5th symphony. I liked the music so much that my parents took me to the music school of my town. I chose the piano because they told me that \u201cwith this instrument you can play the music from that cartoon\u00b4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WHERE<\/strong> does your music take you, geographically as well as spiritually or imaginatively?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b4I like abstract music, so I don\u2019t feel like transported to other places when I play. I think music it\u2019s a different kind of magic, I don\u2019t know if it connects you with nature or sound or what, but when I am surrounded by sound it\u2019s like I\u2019m out of this world.\u00b4&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WHY<\/strong><strong> <\/strong>does this music still have relevance in a world of \u00b4pop\u00b4 music?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b4I think that music can be appealing at a superficial, sensorial level, but when you go beyond that first level, it\u2019s really satisfying to find that \u201cthere\u2019s more meat\u201d. In my opinion, this kind of music allows every people to find something for them: it\u2019s more or less \u201ceasy listening\u201d but it is also deep and moving. Also, pop and rock has taken a lot of elements from classical music so it\u2019s easy to relate with it.\u00b4&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We then made the same enquiries of flautist, <strong>Elisa Bartolom\u00e9<\/strong> by asking the identical questions, beginning with <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/aata.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SAM_6040-1030x773.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1370\" width=\"274\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aata.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SAM_6040-1030x773.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/aata.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SAM_6040-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aata.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SAM_6040-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aata.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SAM_6040-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/aata.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SAM_6040-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/aata.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SAM_6040-1500x1125.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/aata.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SAM_6040-705x529.jpg 705w, https:\/\/aata.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SAM_6040-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\" \/><figcaption>SAMSUNG CAMERA PICTURES<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong> WHO <\/strong>is Elisa Bartolom\u00e9 and how did you arrive in Maximum Ensemble?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u00b4<\/strong>Elisa Bartolom\u00e9 G\u00f3mez is a conservatory flute student who loves music, including everything that this term means: different instruments, sounds, ways to express feelings and to capture the audience attention. Ernesto was my teacher some years ago. He wanted to release his CD, so he prepared a concert in which he not only played his music, but also performed some pieces from other composers in which I was lucky to participate.\u00b4&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WHAT<\/strong> role does your instrument undertake in the kind of ensemble music you play?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b4Depending on the piece. Sometimes my instrument has the lead role, sometimes it helps with the harmony and other times it just adds a different colour to the atmosphere.\u00b4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WHEN<\/strong> do you first remember taking notice of music?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b4My family is the kind of family that have lunch together on Sundays and spends the afternoon playing guitar, piano and singing. So I don\u2019t remember exactly when I first noticed music: it has always been in my life ever since I can remember.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WHERE<\/strong> does your music take you, geographically as well as spiritually or imaginatively?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b4I guess it depends again on the piece and sometimes in the mood I have that day. There are moments when we play a piece and it takes me to the most isolated scene and other days I can feel supported, like if something is having my back, with the exactly same piece.\u00b4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b4That\u2019s what I found most interesting and exiting about music. Your brain and heart are free to feel and think whatever. There\u2019s no judgment, just joy and freedom.\u00b4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WHY<\/strong> does this music still have relevance in a world of \u00b4pop\u00b4music<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b4Because music shakes our body, our souls. It\u2019s not about good or bad music, old or actual music. It\u2019s about how does music make you feel.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can enjoy listening to bachata, to baroque music, to rock and to minimalist music at the same time. It\u2019s the magic aspect of music. It doesn\u2019t have limits of any type.\u00b4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We loved Elisa\u00b4s reference to \u00b4joy and freedom\u00b4 especially as it arrived in these troubled times. No doubt that is a feeling we are all looking forward to share again as soon as possible, anmd with that in mind we read the responses that had alco come in from violin player , <strong>Melina T\u00fabaro<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/aata.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SAM_6039-1030x773.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1371\" width=\"286\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aata.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SAM_6039-1030x773.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/aata.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SAM_6039-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aata.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SAM_6039-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aata.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SAM_6039-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/aata.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SAM_6039-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/aata.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SAM_6039-1500x1125.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/aata.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SAM_6039-705x529.jpg 705w, https:\/\/aata.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SAM_6039-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\" \/><figcaption>SAMSUNG CAMERA PICTURES<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong> WHO<\/strong> is Melina T\u00fabaro and how did you arrive in Maximum Ensemble?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b4Melina was a violin student in the Conservatory of the Canary Islands, in Tenerife. There was a concert with music written by women composers, and Ernesto, who was my teacher at that time, asked me for play one piece composed by Barbara Heller, called \u201cLalai\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After that, I was interested in playing more pieces of this style, more contemporary, music that wasn\u00b4t in the scheduling of classes, so Ernesto ask me for playing this kind of music, and obviously I said \u201cyes\u201d. Then, we were in something called Maximum Ensemble !\u00b4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WHAT<\/strong> role does your instrument undertake in the kind of ensemble music you play?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b4In general all the members play the part that each one wants; there isn\u2019t a principal role for one person, and a second one for another one. All pieces have different instruments, so if I play a duet with the piano and I have the melody, in another piece I\u2019ll play accompaniment or a second voice with the other girls of the group. We play the paper what we want or what we prefer.\u00b4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WHEN<\/strong> do you first remember taking notice of music?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b4Well, my father plays the violin too, and my mother adores the music, so I listened and saw the music very earlier in my house. I think I was four or five old when my father gave me my first violin class, he taught me a little song and after that, the rest is history.\u00b4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WHERE<\/strong> does your music take you, geographically as well as spiritually or imaginatively?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b4Depending on the piece, the feeling it generates is different, of course. For example, \u201cStruggle For Pleasure\u201d, is a piece that we play in our group, and is one of my favourites because it makes me feel power, forces me to keep playing, and my soul deeply enjoys being on the same stage with all the members of Maximum Ensemble. I feel it like a hymn of power and happiness, being in that moment, that place, and sharing it all with the people you are playing with. No matter how many times we play together, I will never get tired of it.\u00b4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WHY<\/strong> does this music still have relevance in a world of \u00b4pop\u00b4 music?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b4It has relevance because minimalist music is a style of music that when you listen or play it, you can really enjoy it and understand all the pieces. For me that thing is very important, because you buy and listen to pop music because is easier to understand and more \u201clight\u201d. That kind of music enters more easily than Mozart\u2019s or Scarlatti\u2019s pieces. In the form of the composition, the scheme of the piece is easier for the public. It is accessible to the entire population, from the little babies to elderly humans.\u00b4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coincidentally, the answers we open last are those from the lady who was the last person to join the current line up of Maximum Ensemble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having heard Ernesto speak of the music of Beethoven and The Pink Panther in the same sentence, and then Elisa talk about joy and freedom, and then Melisa mentioning \u00b4a hymn of love and happiness,\u00b4 we know we are speaking with musicians who love their work. We were, by now, really looking forward to hearing what Laura had to say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/aata.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SAM_6038-1030x773.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1372\" width=\"365\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aata.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SAM_6038-1030x773.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/aata.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SAM_6038-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aata.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SAM_6038-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aata.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SAM_6038-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/aata.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SAM_6038-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/aata.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SAM_6038-1500x1125.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/aata.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SAM_6038-705x529.jpg 705w, https:\/\/aata.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SAM_6038-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/><figcaption>Laura Diaz<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong> WHO<\/strong> is <strong>Laura D\u00edaz<\/strong> and how did you arrive in Maximum Ensemble?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b4I am the last member who arrived to the Ensemble. I had just come to live in Tenerife. The proposal to play with Maximum Ensemble was too interesting. Making beautiful music with friends? Of course, yes!\u00b4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WHAT<\/strong> role does your instrument undertake in the kind of ensemble music you play?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b4Well, in this kind of music, even though your instrument is &#8220;melodic&#8221; it does not mean that always you are going to play melody. We play several pieces where the violin, which I play, makes colours, effects, accompaniment&#8230; that is the fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WHEN<\/strong> do you first remember taking notice of music?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b4When I was three years old. I remember seeing my father playing piano and I always tried to play when he was practicing. Finally he gave me a little casio keyboard for me. I am sure that I started to love music because I saw my father happy playing pieces by The Beatles, Modern talking&nbsp;Latin music,\u2026\u00b4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WHERE<\/strong> does your music take you, geographically as well as spiritually or imaginatively?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b4Depends. Mostly I play early music and that is incredible: it takes me to those big palaces from seventeen century, and it also connects me with the nature, Brandenburg concerts is the best descriptions of political ideas,&#8230; Music is so open. This is a difficult question but in general music takes me to happy places.\u00b4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WHY<\/strong> does this music still have relevance in a world of \u00b4pop\u00b4 music<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minimalism and pop music belong to the same century. They live together and share many common points like: repetitive patterns, &#8220;consonant&#8221; harmony, small motives,\u2026\u00b4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Insert photo M E<\/strong> So, we learn through this interview that the four members of Maximum Ensemble speak as they play: each is independent and autonomous with their own views and yet if you read what they are saying they are speaking in the same harmony that is inherent in their music. We can hear small motifs in the words as we can in their music, and I felt the same way after hearing their worlds as I did after hearing their music live at that concert in Tias. There are profound thoughts here, worn lightly and shared with \u00b4joy and freedom.\u00b4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We here at all across the arts can\u00b4t wait for the next time, whenever it might be, that <strong>Maximum Ensemble<\/strong> return to renew their musical friendship with Lanzarote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, you can learn even more about them at<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ernestomateo.com\">www.ernestomateo.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-soundcloud wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class='avia-iframe-wrap'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ernesto Mateo\" width=\"1500\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Fusers%2F70081982&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxwidth=1500&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;dnt=1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ENQUIRY INTO MAXIMUM ENSEMBLE The e mail read: \u00b4Here are the responses of the five questions you asked for, from each member of the ensemble, with Melina\u2019s in the attached PDF. 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