Listen to The Travels of Tirant Lo Blanch

10 January, 2012: The recordings from the 20 October, 2011 concert “The Travels of Tirant Lo Blanch: Music and Chivalric Splendor” are available in the Audio Archive. The concert was part of the series Music in Midtown at the CUNY Graduate Center. Below is the concert’s program and more information about the Capella de Ministrers and Carles Magraner.

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Listen to the Discussion about Silent Music

15 November, 2011: Listen to the audio recordings of the book release and panel discussion for Silent Music: Medieval Song and the Construction of History in Eighteenth-Century Spain by Susan Boynton. The recording is available on the Foundation for Iberian Music’s Audio Archive.

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Listen to the NYC Al-Andalus Ensemble

12 July, 2011: The New York City Al-Andalus Ensemble has been practicing and learning music from the Ala-Andalusit repertoire under the direstion of Rachid Halihal over the past semester. Now some recordings of their performance and practice are available to listen to on the Foundation for Iberian Music’s Audio Archive.

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Audio Archive: New Music by Joan Valent

In April the Foundation for Iberian Music presented a concert of New Music by Joan Valent. The audio recording for the concert are now available for listening in the Audio Archive. The concert’s program to accompany the audio recording is also available online.

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History of Jazz in Barcelona 1919-1965

This History of Jazz in Barcelona is a brief outline of the development of the musical genre in Catalonia but primarily in Barcelona between the years 1919-1965. The time line and information about these musicians, orchestras, jazz clubs, and events come from the one-day immersion seminar “The Beginnings of Jazz in Catalonia” led by Jordi Pujol Baulenas.

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Listen to New Music by Composer Joan Valent

29 April 2011: At the CUNY Graduate Center’s Elebash Recital Hall audiences heard New Music composed by Joan Valent. Artistic director and flutist Sato Moughalian and the Perspectives Ensemble performed Valent’s pieces with conductor Josep Vincent, Andreu Riera on piano, and Smerald Spahiu, violin.

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Catalunya Música interviews Antoni Pizà

28 January 2011:Barcelona radio station Catalunya Música interviewed director of the Foundation for Iberian Music Antoni Pizà about his new book Nits Simfoniques. In the book, Pizà discusses the processes and methods of writing concert program notes.

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Listen to Amor y Música on the Audio Archive

The music from the November concert Amor y Música: A Concert of Spanish and South American Music is now available in the Audio Archive.

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