PostClassical Ensemble shines in its performance of Silvestre Revueltas's music

A lot of "underappreciated" composers deserve their obscurity. Silvestre Revueltas is not one of them. The Mexican composer whose music was featured and celebrated in several talks and a concert at the University of Maryland over the weekend was the right man at the right time, passionate about human and civil rights in an age (the 1930s) when Mexico was emerging from a revolution that pitted laborers against the rich landowners who exploited them. He came to musical composition late and died in...