Raíz at Dixon Place This Saturday, May 12, resident scholar K. Meira Goldberg will be performing her flamenco piece Raíz with José Moreno at NYC’s Dixon Place, in the lower east side. Advance tickets are $15 ($12 student/senior/NY ID). Tickets and full information are available here. About Raíz: The performance emerges from the poetic and transgressive realism of arte povera: a return to simple objects and messages, a stage where traces of nature and the industrial come alive. The Crone embodies the strength of instability. She enacts rejection and rebellion, memory and faith, feasting and solitude. Her pilgrimage maps a homeland containing many forces in tension. This contemporary quejío opens spaces and sensations where wings may find ground and roots take flight.
Steinway Celebrates Alicia De Larrocha This evening, Manhattan’s Steinway Hall is celebrating renowned Catalonian pianist Alicia de Larrocha (1923–2009) with a screening of a new documentary, Alicia’s Hands (Las manos de Alicia) and a Q&A with Larrocha’s daughter, Alicia Torra de Larrocha, and Andre Previn. Larrocha was lauded as one of the greatest pianists of her generation. She was a great supporter of CUNY, and the Foundation for Iberian Music named her as a honorary member at its inception, in recognition of her immense contributions to Iberian music. The Foundation’s inaugural event, held November 12, 2001, honored Larrocha and her exceptional achievements as a pianist and as an ambassador of Spanish music. 7:00 pm 1 May 2018 Steinway Hall 1133 6th Ave New York, NY 10036
April New York Andalus Ensemble Events You have several opportunities to catch members of the New York Andalus Ensemble this month! On April 25, you can see the full ensemble at La Nacional for their annual spring concert. Tickets are only $20 ($16 student/senior), available through Eventbrite. There are also a couple of upcoming performances with small ensembles, as a part of NYAE director Samuel Torjman Thomas’ ASEFA music project. The small ensemble will be performing at Vassar College on April 22 and at the Shephardic Temple of Cedarhurst on May 3. Thomas will be giving pre-concert talks. For more information and tickets, please visit the ASEFA website.
March 22 “Weaponizing Flamenco” Event Has Been Canceled We are very sorry to announce that the March 22 event “Weaponizing Flamenco” has been canceled, because of the winter storm in NYC. Our featured speakers, Naike and Paquete, are unable to fly into NYC. The March 23 event with the Habichuela Clan is (as yet) unaffected, and we hope to see you then!
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. Daytime conference sessions are free and open to the public. They will also be streamed live at videostreaming.gc.cuny.edu. 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 Venue and Travel 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.
March Talks in Palma de Mallorca March 21, Antoni Pizà will give a talk on disability in music at Acadèmia de Belles Arts de Sant Sebastià, followed by a special performance by Víctor Uris of Harmònica Coixa Blues Band. Uris a Palma de Mallorca native and self-taught blues musician who has been called “one of the most pure and original bluesmen in Europe.” Watch him perform with his band below: 7:30 pm Acadèmia de Belles Arts de Sant Sebastià Palma de Mallorca, Spain The next week, Pizà will give another talk at the beautiful historical palazzo Can Balaguer, on the opera El reloj de Lucerna by Pere Miquel Marqués. The opera is being performed at Teatre Principal on April 7th and 8th. 8 pm Can Balaguer Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Hear Lost Bretón and Campo Chamber Music Last week, Fundación Juan March Madrid held a concert of previously lost Bretón work and a Campo quartet, performed by Cuarteto Bretón. As we have previously announced, the Bretón work was discovered and edited by María Luisa Martínez, who is a visiting scholar with the Foundation for Iberian Music, and its director, Antoni Pizà. The concert was a great success. It was broadcast on Spain’s national public radio. The full recording can be streamed for free online, here. At the beginning of the broadcast, you may hear a short interview with Martínez about how she discovered the lost Bretón works. The concert program begins with Campo’s “Oriental” quartet, followed by Bretón’s 1905 piano quintet, at 1’28”. There was a touching surprise at the concert: Bretón’s great-grandson attended the concert with his family! They are shown here with Martínez. (From the left: Jose Ignacio Cortés Bretón, grandson of Bretón’s son, Abelardo; María Luisa Martínez; Concha Cortés Zulueta, Jose Ignacio’s daughter; Jose Ignacio’s wife; Concha’s partner.) You can also read a review of the performance on the blog “El Tema 8,” here.
Stream Newly Discovered Spanish Chamber Music, Feb 21 As we announced last fall, Fundación Juan March Madrid will present a concert of newly rediscovered chamber works by Tomás Bretón (1850–1923) and Conrado del Campo (1878–1953). The Bretón work featured on the program is his Quinteto con piano (1905), which is one of several works discovered and prepared in a new edition by María Luísa Martínez and Foundation for Iberian Music director, Antoni Pizà. If you are not in Madrid, you’re in luck! The concert will be streamed live on the Juan March website. Visit the event page shortly before the start time, 7:30 pm Madrid time (1:30 pm EST), to begin the audio stream. Archived audio will also be available after the event, here. You can view the program, with an essay by Pizà, here (PDF). Fundación Juan March Castelló, 77. Madrid Salón de actos. 19:30 h.
Modern Flamenco at Instituto Cervantes This coming Monday, February 12, see our resident flamencologist K. Meira Goldberg perform at Instituto Cervantes NY with José Moreno. Goldberg will be performing her original program Raíz, which she recently debuted at La Nacional. About Raíz: Inspired by the work of great Spanish artists such as García Lorca or Camarón and by cultural traditions such as cante jondo, African rhythms and Jewish rituals, R A Í Z seeks to create a ceremony of immersion in the rites of flamenco. The performance emerges from the poetic and transgressive realism of arte povera: a return to simple objects and messages, a stage where traces of nature and the industrial come alive. The Crone embodies the strength of instability. She enacts rejection and rebellion, memory and faith, feasting and solitude. Her pilgrimage maps a homeland containing many forces in tension. This contemporary quejío, opens spaces and sensations where wings may find ground and roots take flight. Tickets: $20 ($15 ICNY members) 7:00 PM 12 February 2018 Galeria, Instituto Cervantes 211-215 East 49th Street, NYC