''Point of No Return''
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ballet
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for tape (stereo)" composed by
Juan Maria Solare. It was designed in
Worpswede
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from January 24, 2002 to January 28, 2002, with details released on March 14, 2002, and made in
Cologne
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at the composer's studio from September 29 to October 5, 2005. Its first performance was on April 13, 2003 at the ''Akademie für Tonkunst'' in
Darmstadt
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,
Germany
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, in the frame of the concert "''Begegnung mit Lateinamerika - Elektroakustische Musik''" ("Encounter with Latin America -
electroacoustic music
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" in
German
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), on the 57th day of the ''Institut für neue Musik und Musikerziehung'' (Institut for New Music and Music Education). It was a mixer in 8-canals by the composer.
It was broadcast on
Radiofabrik
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in
Salzburg
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on June 13, 2004 in the program "''Lyrik und Musik aus Lateinamerika''" produced by Luis Alfredo Duarte Herrera. It was also broadcast by the
WDR in June 2005 during a program on electroacoustic music of Latin America prepared by Torsten Eßer. It premiered in
Argentina
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during a concert by "''Imaginario Sur''" of the ''Instituto Universitario Nacional de las Artes'' on August 18, 2004 at the
La Manufactura Papelera,
Buenos Aires
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. It won the first prize at the 2nd "''Concurso Promociones Electroacústicas''" organized by the ''Federación Argentina de Música Electroacústica'' (Regional
Buenos Aires
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) together with the ''Conservatorio Nacional'' and the ''Instituto Tecnológico ORT'' in September 2005. It was also performed at the ''Conservatorio Nacional'' in Buenos Aires on October 7, 2005, in
Santa Fe, Argentina in November 2005 within the frame of the 20th ''Reunión de Música Electroacústica'' and on December 12, 2002 at the ''Hochschule für Musik Köln'' in Cologne, in the cycle ''Aula Konzerte''.
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Compositions by Juan María Solare