Pre-conference Party with Grammy-nominated Guitarist, Raúl Rodríguez If you are attending our upcoming Zapateados conference at UC Riverside, or if you just happen to be a Spanish guitar fan who lives in or near Riverside, don’t miss this intimate pre-conference show with Raúl Rodríguez! Raúl Rodríguez is an extraordinary musician and storyteller who situates local traditions from southern Spain within the frames of popular music, transatlantic travels, and the African diaspora. He will be accompanied by Spanish guitarist Mario Mas, whose fusions of classical and folkloric styles are perceptive and honest. We will gather to be inspired by their artistry and vision up close in an intimate setting at a beautiful home in downtown Riverside. Rodríguez has been recognized with a Grammy nomination (2007), the “Best European Album” award from the BBC Radio World Music Awards (2008), and his recent solo album Razón de Son was recognized as one of the best albums of 2014 by a number of media outlets (including RockdeLux, Mondosonoro, Rolling Stone, Efeeme, El País, World Music Charts Europe, AireFlamenco, Betto Arcos, Diario Folk, DeFlamenco…). Tickets are $40. Come enjoy a great performance while getting to pretend that you’re nobility invited to chamber music at court and helping to support our international conference guests.
Zapateados Conference Program Now Online The full program for our upcoming conference at UC Riverside, Transatlantic Malagueñas and Zapateados in Music, Song, and Dance is now available! Click the preview below to view or save the PDF.
Sound Art Festival Next Week Next week, the AMEE’s (Asociación de Música Electroacústica y Arte Sonoro de España) sound art festival begins in NYC! The festival opens March 16 with a symposium and concert at the Graduate Center. At 6 pm, Foundation director Antoni Pizà, Daniel Neumann (artist), Jaime Oliver (NYU Waverly Lab), Ferrer-Molina (AMEE, president), and Douglas E. Geers will discuss “The Challenges of Transatlantic Sound Art.” A concert, with performances by Neumann, Oliver, and Ferrer-Molina, and Pau Vila will follow the discussion at 7 pm. Click here for the full program of the symposium and concert! Pizà, apart from being the director of the Foundation, helped to organize Sound v. Sense: Intersection, a sound art installation at the Instituto Cervantes, and contributed essays and material to an upcoming Sound Art exhibition at the Fundación Juan March in Madrid. Oliver is a professor of composition at NYU and co-directs the Waverly Labs for Computing and Music. Geers is co-director of Brooklyn College’s Center for Computer Music. This event is free. It will be held at the Graduate Center’s Proshansky Auditorium. The festival will conclude March 18th at Roulette at 8 pm. Tickets are $15 ($10 student/senior). (A previous version of this post listed the location of the March 18th concert as the Fridman Gallery; the venue has since changed.)
Musicology in the Age of (Post)Globalization: Barry S. Brook Centennial Conference The Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation is pleased to announce the international conference MUSICOLOGY IN THE AGE OF (POST)GLOBALIZATION, taking place from Tuesday, 3 April to Friday, 6 April 2018, at The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, in New York City. The conference celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Center’s founder Barry S. Brook (1918–97), a musicologist with a global vision who lived and worked both in New York and in Paris. His scholarly interests were broad, extending to research that covered secular music from the Renaissance, the 18th and the 19th centuries, as well as music iconography, the social history of music, and aesthetics. In later years he became fascinated with the idea of creating a world history of musics. His interest in the control of music sources and resources together with his vision of a global research community and the use of computers for humanities research led him to found Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) and to co-found the Répertoire International d’Iconographie Musicale (RIdIM), along with many other publications and series. In line with Barry S. Brook’s international perspective, MUSICOLOGY IN THE AGE OF (POST)GLOBALIZATION seeks to facilitate discussions between historical musicologists, ethnomusicologists, music theorists, and pedagogues about 20th- and 21st-century political and cultural shifts that have affected the discipline. Building on the conceptual themes of late–20th-century globalization and post-globalization, this conference concerns itself with two overarching questions: What do these shifts mean for musicology as a discipline, and how are these shifts represented in current research projects? Conference Program Abstracts Hotels Dining Call for Papers MUSICOLOGY IN THE AGE OF (POST)GLOBALIZATION is supported by the Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation.
Film Screening, Lecture-Dance-Recital, and Gran Fandango Our upcoming 2-day conference April 6–7 at UC Riverside, Transatlantic Malagueñas and Zapateados in Music, Song, and Dance, will cap each day with a special multi-media presentation. ♦ The first day, April 6, will feature a screening of Gurumbé–Canciones de tu Memoria Negra, a film by Miguel Ángel Rosales (in Spanish and Portuguese, with English subtitles). Flamenco is synonymous with Spanish culture. Since its inception, theorists have sidelined the fundamental contribution of Afro-Andalusians. Commercial exploitation of the American colonies brought hundreds of Africans to Seville to be sold as slaves, forming a population who over time managed to gain space in a society wrought with racial prejudices. Music and dance were a fundamental part of their expression and the most important affirmation of their identity. As the black population began to disappear from Spain in the late 19th century, so too did their contribution to this extraordinary art form. In Gurumbé, their story is finally told. Rosales is an anthropologist and an award-winning documentary filmmaker. His short films La Maroma (2011) and Atrapados al vuelo (2012) have won several awards around the world, including Cortos for Caracoles (Spain), Bahía Blanca (Argentina), Latinoamerican Festival (Argentina) and Luz en los márgenes (2013). Gurumbé is Miguel’s first feature film. ♦ Day 2, April 7, will culminate in a series of lecture recitals and, to top off the conference, an open gran fandango for all willing participants. First, pianist Adam Kent will give a musical lecture, “From España to Iberia: returning the Malagueña to Málaga,” featuring dancer Anna de la Paz, who will perform the Zapateado de María Cristina. Second, Melissa Moore and singer Fernando Barros will present “Island Life and Conservation of Culture,” a lecture-recital on flamenco guitar and song. Finally, there will be an open gran fandango / footwork jam for all who would like to participate, so bring your dancing shoes and your castanets!
Granados Celebration in Albuquerque The Granados Celebration is heading to Albuquerque for an entire week of festivities! Join our good friends Douglas Riva and Walter A. Clark for a week of lectures and recitals, culminating in a performance of Cant de les estrelles at the Cathedral of St. John, with Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico and Riva. Cant de les estrelles was recently performed to great success in NYC by the Voices of Ascension. Cant de les estrelles tickets range from $10 to $35. Present a valid student ID for a FREE ticket. (Free!) All tickets include admission to the pre-concert lecture with Granados authority Walter A. Clark. and astro-physicist Patricia Henning. Most events are free and open to the public. See either festival webpage (linked above) for full details.
Music Inspired by Art: Goyescas at Baruch New York residents will have another opportunity to hear some Granados this month, at a concert exploring music inspired by paintings. February 23 at the Baruch Performing Arts Center, acclaimed pianist Yoonie Han will be performing Granados’ Goyescas, a suite based upon the paintings of Goya, and premiering the third and final work in Theodore Wiprud‘s suite, Sargent’s Women. The new work is Miss Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth, and this will be the first performance of the suite in its entirety. The concert will be accompanied by a discussion with art historian Gail Levin. Tickets are $35. If purchasing tickets online, $10 discount is available to CUNY community members with promo code JD10. Student tickets are available at the door for $15. Thursday, February 23, 2017 at 7:00PM Engleman Recital Hall 55 Lexington Ave New York, NY 10010 Entrance on 25th between Lexington & 3rd Ave
Video of Taruskin’s 2016 Lloyd Old Lecture Now Online! Good news for all who were unable to attend our sold out 2016 Lloyd Old Lecture, with Richard Taruskin and Prof. Scott Burnham! Taruskin’s thorough and provocative lecture is now online. The lecture featured musical guest Adam Kent, who performs a selection of Russian piano works. Last year’s lecture was a great success, requiring—for the first time in the series’ history—an overflow room to accommodate audience demand. We hope you enjoy this stimulating talk as much as we did.
Spanish Baroque Choral Music at the Hispanic Society Meridionalis, the choral group of the Americas Society, will do a free concert of early Spanish music on December 8: “Luna sin mancha, Sol sin ocaso.” The program features polychoral works from the Hispanic Society’s Olmeda Collection, which includes composers such as Tomás Luis de Victoria, Juan de Madrid, Mateo Romero, Diego de Cáseda, and Manuel de Egüés. These works, for multiple choirs with instrumental accompaniment, represent the pinnacle of early Spanish liturgical music. For more about the Olmeda Collection and Thursday’s program, visit the Americas Society’s event page, where you can also see video from past concerts. Admission is free and open to the public! 7 pm Dec 8, 2016 The Hispanic Society of America Audubon Terrace Broadway between 155th and 156th Streets New York, NY