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The 2024 Barry and Claire Brook Award

Established in April 2018 by the Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation (The Graduate Center of The City University of New York), the BARRY AND CLAIRE BROOK AWARD honors an exceptional single-author or co-authored monograph, dissertation, or edited collection. From 2024 onwards, the prize will be awarded to publications on global music history.

The author(s) of the work will receive a certificate and an optional invitation to deliver a public lecture on the topic of the awarded publication at The CUNY Graduate Center. Dissertations have the opportunity to be published in Brepols series Acta Brookiana.

Beginning in 2024, the awards committee will consist of three distinguished scholars in the field of global music history who will serve overlapping three-year terms. The previous year’s winner will be invited to join the following year’s committee. The director of the Brook Center serves as an ex officio member of the committee. The committee may appoint one or more ad hoc members to review nominated works written in languages outside their area of expertise. Committee members are:

Daniel Chua, University of Hong Kong
Nicholas Cooke, University of Cambridge
Daniela Fugellie, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile

Publication nominations will be accepted by the award committee from any individual or organization. Nominated works may be published in any country and language. Works nominated for the 2024 award must have a copyright date of 2022 or 2023.

Nominations should be submitted to the Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016, or by email to Dr. Tina Frühauf, tfruhauf@gc.cuny.edu. The nominating individual/organization must arrange with the publisher to provide each member of the awards committee with a hard copy or electronic copy of the publication. Nominated publications must be received by committee members by 1 September 2024. Awards will be announced in December 2024.

For further information, please contact Dr. Tina Frühauf, tfruhauf@gc.cuny.edu.

Past winners of the Barry and Claire Brook award.

In Conversation with Antoni Pizà

In Conversation with Antoni Pizà is a series of interviews and dialogues with artists and intellectuals.  Mostly centered around music and the experience of listening, the series explores broader concerns including history, memory, and identity.

You may watch these conversations here:

https://www.youtube.com/@apiza26

 

 

Fernando Buide awarded the Foundation for Iberian Music’s Composers’ Commision 2023

Composer Fernando Buide has been awarded the Foundation for Iberian Music’s Composers’ Commision 2023. Antoni Pizà, the Foundation Director, remarked the originality of Cantos de Sofía Novoa, the piano work that received the award. The composer has written the following statement about this composition:

Cantos de Sofía Novoa

In 1941 Sofía Novoa, a Spanish pianist and pedagogue, presented a concert at the MOMA, NY, featuring Spanish folk and traditional music. The program, entitled Review Ibérica, included songs from her native Galicia, were Novoa was born and raised. Many of the songs programmed were sung by herself accompanied by traditional instruments such as bagpipes or percussions. Probably, this was the first time where this kind of repertoire had been heard in the United States

Novoa had left Spain during the Spanish Civil War; she had gone into exile in the US in 1937.

Throughout different concerts, at times also accompanying herself at the piano, Novoa kept introducing to American audiences these previously unknown musical traditions.

When listening to Novoa in the preserved recordings of these years, one discovers a voice which captures all the nuances and complexities of a repertoire orally transmitted throughout different generations. One would be surprise to realize that this woman was the same one who years before had been student of Nadia Boulanger in Paris; or one of the women who pioneered the introduction of the Dalcroze Eurythmics in Spain.

My piece for piano Cantos de Sofía Novoa is based on several songs presented by Novoa in America:

Teño un amor na montaña, Na beira do mar, Ai Pepiño adiós, Palmeira (I Have a Love in the Mountains, On the Seashore, Goodbye Pepiño, Palmeira). These songs are still very well known and popular nowadays in Galicia and offer a wide range of different tropes of the folk music.

The melodies recollected are freely transcribed and transformed into a seamless piece of music. The reflective atmosphere of the composition, and in a way, also ruminative, constitutes an imaginary evocation of Novoa´s concerts. It strives to be an homage and tribute to the work developed by this extraordinary and, to the date, scarcely known woman.

The work was completed in New York in November 2023.

Yu may listen to an excerpt of the work here:

Film Screening: Transformation

The KJC Center at NYU will present a screening of Transformation a thirty-minute documentary that invites reflection on the most intimate motivations that fuel the creativity of artists. Through the testimony of prominent figures in flamenco dance and singing such as Manuel Liñán, Jesús Carmona, Ana Morales, and Rocío Márquez, the film delves into the innermost core and explores the most intimate mechanisms that distill life into art. Produced by Womack Studios and Flamenco Festival, and directed by Antonio Cadenas and Miguel Marín, Transformation is the first in a series of three documentaries that present the current scene of flamenco through a range of artists—some emerging, others already established.

Produced by Womack Studios and Flamenco Festival, and directed by Antonio
Cadenas and Miguel Marín, “Transformation” is the first in a series of three
documentaries that present the current landscape of flamenco through a range of artists—some emerging, others already established.

More information:  https://www.kjcc.org/event/film-screening-transformation/

 

EVENT | FILM

March 15, 2024 | 5:00 PM

Film Screening: Transformation

Venue: KJCC Auditorium • 53 Washington Square South

 

Introduced by Antoni Pizà; Q&A and reception with artist Manuel Liñán and producer Miguel Marín.

International Symposium: Paco de Lucía and The Americas

International Symposium: Paco de Lucía and The Americas

PacoDeLuciaProgram

An international symposium dedicated to exploring the indelible sway of the Americas on Paco de Lucía and, conversely, the impact of Paco de Lucía on the music and the musicians of the Americas.

To mark the tenth anniversary of Paco de Lucía’s passing this conference will investigate the transformative influence of Paco de Lucía (Francisco Sánchez Gómez, 1947-2014) on the global concert stage. Paco de Lucía was undoubtedly one of the most important contributors to the history of the guitar. His music transcended and transformed the genres of classical, jazz, and flamenco guitar, and his virtuosity as an instrumentalist, encompassing his unique fusions of Spanish musical idioms with North American, Caribbean, and Latin American genres, continues to influence classical, flamenco, jazz, pop, and world music today by drawing together the musical legacies of Africa, the Americas, and Europe.

Join acclaimed musicians and prestigious scholars from around the world to honor and celebrate the antecedents and the legacy of this remarkable artist.

 

Thursday, March 7, 2024 ― 9:30 am-6:00 pm

The Segal Theater, CUNY Graduate Center

365 Fifth Avenue @ 34th St

Free Admission ― Registration is required.

www.gc.cuny.edu

212-8178215

 

Organizing directors:  Antoni Pizà & K. Meira Goldberg

Presented by:

The Foundation for Iberian Music at Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation

The CUNY Graduate Center

This event has already received some attention from some media outlets.  K. Meira Goldberg is interviewed here.

For the full program click here:

PacoDeLuciaProgram

This symposium is part of the Flamenco Festival NY 2024. Click here for the Festival’s full program:

FlamencoFestival

Conference on Iberian Historical Male Voices and the Press

 

The Sociedad Española de Musicología has just announced this conference to be held in Palma de Mallorca (March 20, 21, and 22 2024) and Antoni Pizà (Foundation for Iberian Music) is a member of the Scientific Committee.

Read the full information here:  https://xiimuspres.com/

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XII MUSPRES

Congreso internacional 

La comisión de trabajo de la Sociedad Española de Musicología“Música y prensa” (MUSPRES), en colaboración con el grupo de investigación “Musurba“, de la Universidad Internacional de Valencia (VIU) y el grupo de investigación del “Institut de Musicologia Pau Villalonga” se complacen en organizar el Congreso internacional  “Divos: las voces masculinas de ópera y la prensa”, en memoria del gran bajo mallorquín Francisco Uetam. 
Este es el duodécimo encuentro científico impulsado por la mencionada comisión de trabajo de la SEdeM. Desde el año 2013, el grupo “Música y prensa” ha sido el anfitrión de congresos anuales con el objetivo de fomentar y compartir investigaciones musicológicas basadas en fuentes hemerográficas. Esta convocatoria se centra en la ópera y, de forma más específica, en los cantantes varones que han representado en escena personajes inolvidables, desde el emperador Carlos a Lohengrin, pasando por Figaro, Fausto o Werther.
En el XII MUSPRES, exploraremos el legado dejado por los cantantes de ópera desde nuevas perspectivas y contextos actuales, pero siempre a partir de la prensa. ¡Esperamos contar con vuestra participación!

 

Comité científico 

Dr. Francesc Cortès i Mir (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Dra. Bàrbara Durán (Institut de musicologia Pau Villalonga)
Dr. Enrique Encabo (Universidad de Murcia)
Dra. María Ordiñana (Universidad Internacional de Valencia)
Dr. Antoni Pizà (Foundation for Iberian Music)
Dr. Alberto José Vieira Pacheco (Universidad Nova de Lisboa)
 
 
Dirección del congreso 
Dra. Eugenia Gallego Cañellas (Universidad Internacional de Valencia)

Sociedad Española de Musicología – Música y Prensa (MUSPRESS)

 

Antoni Pizà, Foundation for Iberian Music, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, will present the following paper:

“Cómo eliminar casi todas las claves del solfeo y morir en el intento: Los intentos frustrados de Francisco Frontera de Valldemosa reflejados en la prensa española y europea”

En 1837, el cantante, compositor, pedagogo y gestor musical Francisco Frontera de Valldemosa (Palma, 22 de septiembre de 1807 — Palma, 7 de octubre de 1891) publicó en París un peculiar tratado de solfeo encaminado a eliminar o, al menos, reducir las claves del solfeo.  En ediciones sucesivas, el libro acabaría llamándose Equinotación ó Nuevo sistema musical de llaves. El breve volumen consta de dos partes. La primera detalla la reducción de todas las claves a sólo tres. La mayoría de las claves —arguye el autor— son innecesarias y, además, retrasan o incluso pueden llegar a abortar la creatividad musical del joven estudiante. La segunda parte es una curiosa antología de música que incluye en la página izquierda fragmentos musicales en su notación original, y en la página opuesta, a la derecha, en su transcripción al nuevo sistema de equinotación, o sea sin claves “innecesarias”. A pesar de que el sistema de Frontera no logró imponerse, la prensa española y europea reflejaron la originalidad del método y la posible necesidad de un sistema así: en Francia, la Revue et gazette musicale, L’Orphéon, La presse teatrale; en España, El león español, La España, La Libertad, El Artista, Revista y gaceta musical, La Correspondencia de España; en Italia, Bocherini, Il Pirata, Gazzetta musicale di Napoli, etc.  A pesar del éxito entre muchos críticos y profesores, Hippolyte-Raymond Colet (Uzès, 5 de diciembre de 1808 – París, 21 de abril de 1851) denunció el tratado por plagio e inició una polémica en la prensa denominada la querelle des cléfs en la que participaron varios críticos, profesores y teóricos musicales. Inquebrantable en sus convicciones y sin una resolución clara del posible plagio, Frontera publicó tres ediciones más de su tratado, una de ellas poco antes de morir.

New Conference on the Transatlantic Circulation of Knowledge

After the a very successful series of conferences and publications on the circulation of music and ideas across the Atlantic, including Celebrating Flamenco’s Tangled Roots: The Body Questions (2022); “Natives, Africans, Roma, and Europeans: Transatlantic Rhythms in Music, Song, and Dance” (published in Música Oral del Sur 2020); “Spaniards, Indians, Africans and Gypsies: The Global Reach of the Fandango in Music, Song, and Dance” (also in Música Oral del Sur 2015); Transatlantic Malagueñas and Zapateados in Music, Song and Dance: Spaniards, Natives, Africans, Roma (2019); and The Global Reach of the Fandango in Music, Song and Dance: Spaniards, Indians, Africans and Gypsies (2017), now the Societat Catalana de Musicologia has issued a call for papers.

Music, Migration, and the Exchange of Knowledge

Spain – North America – Latin America

A bicontinental symposium at the Institut d’Estudis Catalans, Barcelona, 28–29 November 2024, and at the Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation, CUNY, Graduate Center, New York, 22–23 April 2025

Convenors & Coordination:
Tina Frühauf (The CUNY Graduate Center, New York / RILM)
Andrea Puentes-Blanco (IMF-CSIC, Barcelona & Societat Catalana de Musicologia)

Dates:
Barcelona symposium: November 28–29, 2024
New York symposium: April 22–23, 2025

Abstracts should be sent through this form https://forms.gle/3NjBa4tsj3x2uw6a8 by 15 March 2024 in English or Spanish. Participants must indicate whether they want to participate in the Barcelona symposium in 2024 or in the New York symposium in 2025. For individual papers: abstracts of c. 350 words; for panels: abstracts of c. 300 words of the proposal as a whole and c. 200 words on the contribution of each participant. Applicants will be notified by 1 June 2024.

For more information visit the symposium website: https://sites.google.com/view/bicontinentalsymposium/home

Publications by Antoni Pizà in The News

The Way of the Moderns (Brepols, 2022) by Antoni Pizà was prominently featured at the American Musicological meeting in Denver in November 2023.  Additionally, the literary podcast Ciutat Maragda dedicated an extensive segment to La dansa de l’arquitecte (Ensiola, 2012).  You may want to hear to the whole podcast here.

 

 

 

For an excerpt only, click here (in Catalan):

 

 

Additionally, the volume THE BODY QUESTIONS (Cambridge, 2022) has been reviewed and recommended the prestigious journal Revista de Investigación sobre flamenco “La Madrugá.”  You may download the article here: BodyQuestions_Uribe

Andrea Puentes at The Foundation for Iberian Music (Brook Center)

Andrea Puentes-Blanco was a Visiting Scholar at the Foundation for Iberian Music (The Brook Center, The City University of New York) from April to July 2023. Puentes-Blanco is Tenured Researcher at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [CSIC, Spanish National Research Council], Institución Milá y Fontanals de Investigación en Humanidades (Barcelona, Spain). During her stay at the Brook Center, Puentes-Blanco worked on her research project entitled ‘Exploring Spanish Traditional Music Holdings in US Libraries’ whose aim is to research Spanish traditional music holdings in US libraries and archives that were collected in Spain, mostly by American ethnomusicologists or anthropologists, and Spanish-speaking folk music in the United States collected from Spanish immigrants or from people of Spanish origin. A case in point is Puentes’ research on the legacy of our late colleague and mentor Henrietta Yurchenco (1916-2007). This research is part of a broader current research project entitled “Digital development of the Fondo de Música Tradicional IMF-CSIC” [Desarrollo digital del Fondo de Música Tradicional IMF-CSIC] funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation from 2022 to 2024. Puentes is currently planning an international conference to be held in Barcelona (CSIC, 2024) and NY (Foundation for Iberian Music at the Brook Center, 2025.)