Los Cinco
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Los Cinco is an unofficial collective of Latin American composers living and working in Los Angeles. These composers include: Daniel Catán
Daniel Catán
Daniel Catán was a Mexican composer of Russian Sephardic Jewish descent known particularly for his operas and his creative friendship with the tenor Plácido Domingo.-Career:...

, Miguel del Águila
Miguel del Aguila
Miguel del Águila is an Uruguayan-born American composer of contemporary classical music.-Life:After studies in his native Montevideo, Águila moved to the United States in 1978, where he graduated from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music...

, Aurelio de la Vega, Enrique González-Medina, and Carlos Rodríquez.

Meant to draw a comparison between this collective and a group of avant-garde Parisian composers active in the 1920s known as "Les Six", the term "Los Cinco" was originally coined by Sean Bradley
Sean Bradley
Sean Bradley is an American conductor, composer, violinist, music theorist, educator, and impresario of large scale symphonic and operatic events...

, an American conductor. Bradley first presented these composers as a collective in public performance, and the label Los Cinco first appeared in print in a Los Angeles Times review dated August 3, 2004.

The music by these composers shares "...certain common features, including a vibrancy of ideas, no fear of sensuality or humor, and an infectious passion." (Josef Woodward, Los Angeles Times)

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