Uploaded May 2023 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago

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Rick Barrantes Agüero, bassoon
4/30/2023, Rock Hall Auditorium, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
The full video of Rick's doctoral recital is available here: youtube.com/watch?v=lsM8wREf8vc

Whenever any of us leave one place for another, we leave something behind. Having lived in four different countries and traveled to two more in the last five years, I often found myself missing aspects of all of them. In "Longing", these sensations are expressed through the sustained notes and register gaps of the bassoon; I hope every listener can find a part of themselves in it.