March 18, 2014: There is some very important news for the Granados Centenary.

• Dr. Mutsumi Fukushima of the University of Hiroshima is joining our committee.  Mutsumi received her Doctorate in Barcelona where she lived for 11 years.  She is an expert on Catalan piano music.  In 2016 the Musicology Society of Japan will be having their annual conference at her University and she will make Granados and Spanish music the main topic.  Mutsumi will also present a paper at our symposium in New York.
• Paolo Pinamonte, Director of the Teatro de la Zarzuela will join our committee.  The Zarzuela will present María del Carmen in the original version, recovered by Walter A. Clark and Douglas Riva, in either Spring or Fall 2016.
• Reilly Lewis, Music Director of the National Cathedral in Washington has confirmed a performance of Cant de les estrelles in either 2016 or 2017.
• For the Granados centenary and the 150th Anniversary of his birth a new multi-media theatrical program is being developed.  It will include spoken dialogue recalling Granados’ life and works with extensive quotations from his soon-to-be-published letters (prepared by Dr. Miriam Perandones Lozano) and selections of Granados’ piano, vocal and dance works.  Performers will be pianist Douglas Riva, mezzo soprano Anna Tonna, actor and noted Classical radio personality (and artist) Kevin Gordon, and dancer Anna de la Paz.  A special feature will be a rare performance of one of Granados’ final works, Danza de los ojos verdes, premiered in February, 1916 in New York.
• Maxine Thevenot, choral director and organist, has announced a performance of Cant de les estrelles, Fall, 2016 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  The three choruses will be Polyphony Voices of New Mexico, the St. John Cathedral Choir and the women’s chorus, Las Cantantes from the University of New Mexico. Douglas Riva will be the piano soloist. A pre-concert lecture will be given by Dr. Walter A. Clark, author of Enrique Granados:  Poet of the Piano, published by Oxford University Press.