“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
Recent Paper Given in Bern María Luisa Martínez, guest researcher at the Foundation for Iberian Music, recently gave a paper at a conference at the University of Bern. The conference, held September 7–9, 2017, was entitled Branding “Western Music” and explored “intersections between Western music and the institutionalised management of culture.” Martínez’s paper was called, “Homogenizing Spanish Musical Practices at the Turn of the Century: The Participation of Spain in the International Exhibition of Music and Theater in Vienna 1892.” Spain’s participation in the International Exhibition of Music and Theater in Vienna 1892 was, from an outside perspective, a milestone in the reception and spreading of Spanish music in Europe. Nationally, it represented –after the efforts of several generations of musicians– a highlight in the upliftment of the role played by Spain in the development of Western music through its history and in the achievement of a more sophisticated national musical language, similar to that developed in other European countries since early nineteenth century. This event mobilized musicians from all around Spain moved by the desire for progress of Spanish music. They collaborated in many ways in the organization of the Spanish Section under the leadership of Infanta Isabel de Borbón (1851-1931), a musical activist very well informed of synchronic European music experiences and the chairwoman of the committee responsible for preparing the Spanish participation in Vienna 1892. My research reveals historical aspects of this dynamic and collaborative multidirectional music network which transformed the Spanish musical practices, promoting the recovery of a large part of the Spanish musical heritage from the Middle Ages and onwards, the building of a corpus of Spanish drama music major works (zarzuela and opera) and the production of the first organological and ethnomusicological study in Spain that we currently know, Colección de instrumentos populares de España presentada por S.A.R. la infanta María Isabel Francisca. With this contribution I intend to expand the knowledge of the energetic, enriching and changeable music scene in Spain at the turn of the century and to claim the catalyst figure of Infanta Isabel in the development and shaping of musical disciplines in Spain. María Luisa Martínez Martínez has an International Ph.D. on Musicology (Universidad de Jaén) and is currently a guest researcher and collaborator at The Foundation for Iberian Music, Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). Her research focuses on music in the Bourbon Spanish court during the latter nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and on the evolution of flamenco guitar playing. Since 2012, she works at United Nations International School (New York).
New Fundación Juan March Season September 19th, the Fundación Juan March (Madrid) held a presentation to discuss their new season, with music program director Miguel Ángel Marín. The presentation video is available on their Facebook page or through Vimeo. You can also read a report on their new season here or view it as a convenient graph! There are many interesting musical programs coming up in the 2017-18 season, including a program on Duke Ellington next month, and a fascinating looking series of concerts exploring Neitzsche’s relationship to music. Of special interest to the Foundation for Iberian Music are two items in the upcoming season: first, a performance of Los Elementos by Literes at the Teatro de la Zarzuela, which we announced previously, and a concert that will be held as a part of a program called Aula de (Re)estrenos. Cuarteto Breton will perform a recently discovered work by Tomás Bretón on February 21, 2018. This work, Quinteto in sol mayor, has a critical edition forthcoming through ICCMU in their instrumental music series, edited by guest researcher María Luisa Martínez and our director Antoni Pizà. The edition will be available for purchase in 2018.
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. 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 ∗∗∗ 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.
Angel Gil-Ordoñez’s Homage to His Mentor In the September issue of Strings Magazine, our colleague Angel Gil-Ordoñez (principal guest conductor of the Foundation’s resident Perspectives Ensemble) pays tribute to his mentor and his mentor’s love of Bruckner: (click photo to view larger)
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
CFP Deadline: En ocasión de María del Carmen As a reminder, the deadline to submit papers to the upcoming conference En ocasión de María del Carmen: Enrique Granados y su época is September 15. See the full CFP here. The conference itself is also rapidly approaching, It will be held October 18–20 at the University of Murcia.