The Art of Flamenco The Foundation for Iberian Music has co-organized an upcoming flamenco lecture and performance at the Clark Museum. The performance, which will be on Sunday, June 12 at 3 pm, features the great Belén Maya, who will be dancing along with guitarist José Luis Rodríguez. Maya is daughter of the internationally renowned flamenco dancer Mario Maya, and she has served as principal dancer of his New York based dance company, Mario Maya Flamenco. She represented the “new generation” of flamenco in Carlos Saura’s film Flamenco (1995). Rodríguez has been named as on of the 20 best flamenco guitarists in Spain (Felix Grande, Agenda Flamenca, 1995) and he has received numerous prizes for his playing. He is aksi co-founder of Nu Flamenco Collaborative, a US-based foundation dedicated to promoting all forms of flamenco. Tickets are $25 ($22 members).
More Granados Press The Foundation for Iberian Music’s ongoing Granados Celebration is continuing to receive a lot of press attention, both in New York-based newspapers and magazines and in Spain! We have had many local performances during the past several months. Douglas Riva has one remaining NYC concert, 7 pm, May 12th, at the Hispanic Society of America (free admission). This is our last upcoming event in NYC for a little while, but stay tuned, because there is more to come. In the meanwhile, Granados Celebration events continue to take place around the world. (Click the above link to view some of the international schedule.) Some of our recent press clippings (click images to view full PDFs): Ara, 28 April El Diario, 28 April El Diario, 27 April Ritmo, 19 April
Fandango Conference Reviewed in New Flamenco Magazine La Musa y El Duende, a new international digital magazine on flamenco (featuring our very own visiting scholar Meira Goldberg as a US correspondent), has just put out its first issue, which includes a review of the Foundation for Iberian Music’s fall conference on the fandango! The review begins on page 37. Click the image below to open the full PDF of the issue. Also have a look at April’s introductory issue (Issue 0) here!
Granados Celebration Coverage in Nuvol Digital Catalan magazine Nuvol has an article about Douglas Riva’s upcoming performance on April 29th at the Morgan Library and Museum, and about Granados’ time in New York and the Celebration at large. We are delighted to see the Foundation for Iberian Music’s many-time collaborator Benet Casablancas called “possibly the most important living Catalan composer” — “the Granados of the 21st century”! Incredible praise, with which we are inclined to agree. Riva’s upcoming performance is Friday, April 29th, at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $35 ($25 members). (click to download PDF)
Scruton Review in NY Review of Books The New York Review of Books recently published an engaging review of Roger Scruton’s new book, Fools, Frauds, and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left (Bloomsbury, 2016). The always provocative Scruton, as you will no doubt recall, was the guest speaker for the 2015 Lloyd Old and Constant Old lecture. He has written nearly fifty books, and the author of the review, Samuel Freeman, writes that Scruton is “after Richard Wollheim, the most significant British philosopher of aesthetics of the past fifty years.” Scruton’s new book is about modern schools of political thought, rather than music or architecture, but his political ideologies are never far from his aesthetics. Scruton engages what he considers to be the foundations of society, as Freeman notes, and music is a part of our foundational cultural institutions. Click the link above to read Freeman’s thoughtful criticism.
Fandango Conference Papers (Apr, 2015) Published in Música oral del Sur Proceedings from The Foundation for Iberian Music’s April 2015 conference and two day fandango extravaganza, “Spaniards, Indians, Africans, and Gypsies: The Global Reach of the Fandango in Song, Music, and Dance” (directed by visiting scholar K. Meira Goldberg), have been published in a special issue of Música oral del Sur (vol. 12, 2015). The full text of the issue may be read online, here. Look for additional English language publications from Cambridge Scholars in April, 2017! We will post details as they become available.
Enrique Granados in New York: Full Concert Online Full video of the March 10th concert, “From Barcelona with Passion: Enrique Granados in New York”—Perspectives Ensemble, directed by Ángel Gil-Ordoñez and joined by Douglas Riva and Anna de la Paz—is now available online! The concert concluded our daylong international Granados conference and featured the world premiere of esteemed composer Benet Casablancas’ work, Romanza sin palabras: Homage to Granados, which was composed especially for the Granados Celebration. Watch below!
Douglas Riva Solo Concert at the Morgan Library, Apr 29 Fans of romantic piano music will have one more opportunity this month to catch Douglas Riva performing Granados’ solo piano works, on April 29th, at the beautiful Morgan Library and Museum. Riva, for readers just joining us, is co-organizer of the Foundation for Iberian Music’s ongoing Granados centenary celebrations and one of the world’s foremost experts in the piano works of Granados. Don’t miss this chance to hear Granados as his music was meant to be heard. Program: Capricho español, DLR V:1 Cuentos de la juventud, DLR IV:2 Goyescas, DLR II:4 (select movements) Escenas románticas, DLR V:7 Barcarola, DLR V:4 Vals de concierto, DLR VII:9 Tickets are $35 ($25 members) 7:30 pm, Friday, April 29th The Morgan Library and Museum 225 Madison Ave (36th St) New York, NY 10016
Chamber Music of Granados at the Hispanic Society Next up in the docket for our continuing Granados Centennial festivities is a concert with Douglas Riva at the Hispanic Society of America, April 14th. Douglas will be performing selected chamber music of Enrique Granados with Erica Kiesewetter (violin) and Wolfram Koessel (cello). A reception will follow. Admission is free. Please RSVP at friends@hispanicsociety.org or 212-926 2234, Ext. 250. 6 pm, Thursday, April 14 Hispanic Society of America, Museum and Library Broadway between 155th and 156th Sts. (Photograph of Granados from the Hispanic Society collection.)