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Newly Rediscovered Quintets: A Concert

February 21 in 2018, Fundación Juan March will hold a concert at their Madrid location as a part of this season’s Aula de (Re)estrenos’s series, to re-premiere some recently rediscovered works by Tomás Bretón and Conrado del Campo.

The Foundation for Iberian Music’s director, Antoni Pizà, and guest scholar María Luísa Martínez are responsible for bringing the Bretón work on the program to light.  They discovered the work, among several other Bretón quintets, and prepared a critical edition, which is forthcoming on ICCMU Press. Pizà and Martínez also wrote the program notes for this concert.

NYC Latin American Cultural Week, Nov 10–19

In just over a week, New York City’s annual Latin American Cultural week kicks off. The festival runs November 10–19 and encompasses dozens of concerts, dance and theatrical performances, film screenings, and workshops throughout the city.

One participant in this year’s festival is our own colleague Isabel Pérez Dobarro, who contributed to our Granados Celebration and is co-organizing an upcoming conference with us.

Her event, “Musica Among Friends,” is Tuesday, November 14th, at 6 pm at Saint Peter’s Church.  She will be performing piano works and songs from Isaac Albéniz and Enrique Granados with pianist Rosa Torres-Pardo, who will also be singing.

November NY Andalus Ensemble/Asefa Events

Early in November, there are several events in the New York Andalus Ensemble family happening. Under the rubric of Asefa Music (the projects of Samuel Torjman Thomas, who directs the NYAE), there are several music lectures in the coming week, in the northeast:

  • November 1, University of Pennsylvania: Thomas will be giving a lecture at the Traditional Jewish Food Club. (tickets)
  • November 4, Merkin Concert Hall, NYC: Thomas will moderate a Q&A with Israeli singer Yasmin Levy. (tickets)
  • November 5, Rutgers Film Festival, NJ: Thomas will give a musical lecture on the film On the Tigris River. (tickets)
  • November 10, JCC Manhattan: The NY Andalus Chamber Trio kicks off the shabbat with an evening program of food and music, for only $18! (tickets)

There will be more NYAE performances by both large and small ensembles in December, so be sure to check back!

“En ocasión de María del Carmen” Conference Program

The program for the upcoming Granados conference in Alicante, at the University of Murcia, is now available! The conference, “En ocasión de María del Carmen: Enrique Granados y su época,” will be held October 18–20. For attendance information, please visit the conference website.

Here is a full list of the presenters and their papers:

  • CARREIRA, Xoán: “Majas y Geishas. Recepción e influencia del japonismo en la obra de Enrique Granados”
  • CARRERES, Curro: “La ópera murciana de Granados, dramaturgia y personajes revisados ante el descubrimiento de la partitura original inédita”
  • ENCABO, Enrique: “La fuerza del regionalismo: Enrique Granados y la ciudad de Murcia”
  • GALLEGO, Eugenia: “Enrique Granados y su relación con Antonio Noguera: Dos Insensatos en la Mallorca finisecular”
  • GARCÍA TORRES, Andrea: “Fenómenos de adaptación, transculturación y alteridad en La gran vía y Certamen nacional: un instrumento en el desarrollo del género chico en Chile”
  • GONZÁLEZ, Dácil: “Granados en el imaginario de Manuel de Falla”
  • LACÁRCEL FERNÁNDEZ, José Antonio: “Contexto social y cultural en el que nace la ópera María del Carmen de Granados”
  • MARIÑO, Borja: “El tratamiento temático en María del Carmen, un acercamiento al verismo español”
  • MARTÍNEZ BELTRÁN, Zoila: “Una Elegía eterna por Granados”
  • MARTÍNEZ RODRÍGUEZ, Juan Manuel: “La influencia del folklore murciano en la ópera María del Carmen de E. Granados”
  • MATÍA, Inmaculada: “Enrique Granados en el cine: Goyescas”
  • MONTORO BERMEJO, Amparo: “Estreno de María del Carmen en Barcelona (1899): ¿Éxito o fracaso? Un análisis a través de la hemerografía catalana interesada.”
  • MURCIA GALIÁN, Juan Francisco: “Fastos conmemorativos en la España de Franco: “Homenaje a Granados” en la IX Demostración Sindical (1966)”
  • PASCUAL LEÓN, Nieves: “Granados en Valencia: Reflexiones sobre la vida musical en el cambio de siglo desde los autógrafos de sus artistas”
  • ROSAL, Mª Isabel: “Enrique Granados y su presencia en la Revista Musical Hispano-Americana”
  • SANCHO GARCÍA, Manuel: “La actividad y recepción de Enrique Granados en Valencia (1893-1912)”
  • SERRANO, Pilar: “Paul Dukas, un olvidado del París de Granados: argumentos para su desatención”
  • TONNA, Anna: “”¿Desnuda o vestida?”: Restoring context for a performance practice that recuperates Fernando Periquet’s recited text “La maja desnuda” within Enrique Granado’s song “La maja de Goya” from the Doce Tonadillas al estilo antiguo.”
  • VALVERDE FLORES, Tamara: “Giros y retornos: tragaluz penetrante en las trayectorias de Enrique Granados y Joaquín Nin”

The advisory committee includes the Foundation for Iberian Music’s director, Antoni Pizà, as well as several of our frequent collaborators:

– Dr. Walter Aaron Clark (University of California, Riverside)
– Dr. Francesc Cortés i Mir (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
– Dra. María Encina Cortizo Rodríguez (Universidad de Oviedo)
– Dra. Mutsumi Fukushima (Elisabeth University of Music – Hiroshima)
– Luisa Morales (FIMTE- University of Melbourne)
– Dra. Miriam Perandones Lozano (Universidad de Oviedo)
– Dr. Antoni Pizà (The City University of New York)
– Dr. Ramón Sobrino Sánchez (Universidad de Oviedo)

Oct 3: Eduardo Frías Performs Grundman at Carnegie Hall

October 3rd, pianist Eduardo Frías will perform the complete works of Spanish composer Jorge Grundman at Carnegie Hall. This concert follows the release of his recording of the works of Grundman, Little Great Stories, on Sony Classical.

Grundman (b. 1961) writes in an expressive neo-tonal style that has been compared to eminent Catalan composer Frederic Mompou and film composer John Barry. He has won numerous awards for his composition and his collaborations with the Brodsky Quartet are Spanish Independent Music Award-winning. The celestial opening section of his fantasie, “Who Remembers Beauty When Sadness Knocks at Your Door?”, which Frías performs below, whispers a suggestion of early 20th century French composers, such as Satie or Debussy.

Though young, Frías has toured throughout Europe, the Americas, and Africa. His appearances include Hochschule der Künste in Bern (Switzerland), SGAE Madrid and Barcelona Auditoriums, as well as the Juan March Foundation and Auditorio Nacional (Madrid), and he has collaborated with Instituto Cervantes and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Spain in the Cultural Centers of Spain in Bata and Malabo (Equatorial Guinea).

Enjoy this aperitif:

 

8 pm
October 3, 2017
Tickets: $20 to $35; student and senior discounts available at Box Office
Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall

Film and Performance: “Gurumbé: Afro-Andalusian Memories”

“Flamenco is synonymous with Spanish culture. Yet, since its inception, theorists have sidelined the fundamental contribution of Afro-Andalusians to this art form.”

Gurumbé: Afro-Andalusian Memories, a feature-length documentary from anthropologist Miguel Ángel Rosales, explores the contribution of Afro-Andalusians to flamenco as the art form developed. Gurumbé (72 min, in Spanish with English subtitles) has won numerous awards in the festival circuit and it is currently premiering around the world.

 

December 3rd, 2017,  join us at La Nacional  at 7 pm for a special screening and flamenco performance featuring dancer Yinka Ese Graves, who is featured in the film.  There will also be a round table discussion with the performers and the director, moderated by our visiting scholar, K. Meira Goldberg. In addition to organizing numerous conferences and flamenco events with the Foundation for Iberian Music, Goldberg is the author of Flamenco on the Global Stage and Sonidos Negros: On the Blackness of Flamenco (forthcoming, Oxford Univ. Press).

Advance tickets are available for a discount through Eventbrite: $15-20.

Yinka Ese Graves

You can also see Graves perform at Gibney Dance, November 30–December 2. Tickets for Gibney are on sale now.

 

 

 

CFP: “Iberian Musical Crossroads Through the Ages” (Barcelona)

The Brook Center’s Research Center for Music Iconography (RCMI) is putting on a conference at Barcelona’s Societat Catalana de Musicologia in October of 2018. The conference, Iberian Musical Crossroads Through the Ages: Images of Music Making in their Trans-cultural Exchange “will examine visual sources documenting transborder and transcultural transmission of musical ideas between the peoples of the Iberian Peninsula and the rest of the world.” Spain’s many historical “explorations and migrations created a fertile framework for a rich exchange of musical ideas, sounds, forms, rhythms, dances, and instruments.”

Paper proposals will be accepted through April 2, 2018. You may view the full CFP on the conference’s page.

SOCIETAT CATALANA DE MUSICOLOGIA & INSTITUT D’ESTUDIS CATALANS
Barcelona, 17–19 October 2018

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In related news, RCMI’s director, Zdravko Blazekovic, will be presenting this coming October in Athens at Repertoire International d’Iconographie Musicale’s annual conference, which will be held Oct 5–7.  View the program here.

Flamenco Rosado: Gender & Sexual Identity in Flamenco

The Graduate Center’s Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS) is holding a flamenco event at the Segal Theater on November 29. The event, “Flamenco Rosado: Gender & Sexual Identity in Flamenco,” is a flamenco performance and talk featuring members of Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana. They will explore intersections “queerness, gender performativity, identity, and social justice” in flamenco. Flamenco Vivo has collaborated with the Foundation for Iberian Music in some of its past flamenco-related events, such as with our 2015 fandango conference.

Admission is free but space is limited; reservations are recommended.

7 pm
Oct 29, 2017
Segal Theater, The Graduate Center
Reservations