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Xenakis in Canada!

Until 17 October 2010, the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) presents an exhibition exploring the fundamental role of drawing in the work of Iannis Xenakis. This is the first North American museum exhibition devoted to Xenakis’s paper-based works:

http://www.cca.qc.ca/en/exhibitions/955-iannis-xenakis-composer-architect-visionary

Reynaldo Fernández Manzano presented a lecture on the music of al-Andalus, sponsored by the Foundation for Iberian Music

The Music of al-Andalus

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A lecture illustrated with musical examples

by

Reynaldo Fernández Manzano

In Spanish with simultaneous English translation

Presented by the Foundation for Iberian Music

Free, No reservations

Monday, September 13, 2010

2:00pm

Segal Theater

CUNY Graduate Center

365 Fifth Ave.

Tel. 212 817 1819

Listen to the lecture here. [In Spanish]. 

Program/Bio

CUNY TV features Paquito D’Rivera, watch online!

NUEVA YORK

Episode Premiere
July 15, 2010

Watch online

NUEVA YORK, is CUNY TV’s Emmy-award winning Spanish-language series (2009 & 2010 NY Emmy, Best Magazine Show). It is presented in Spanish, with English subtitles.

on CUNY TV, Channel 75 (on cable):
Thursday, July 15 at 10 AM, 4 PM, and 10 PM
Saturday, July 17 at 2:30 PM
Thursday, July 22 at 10 AM, 4 PM, and 10 PM
Saturday, July 24 at 2:30 PM

We start this episode in midtown Manhattan, at the CUNY Graduate Center, where we will learn about the last work of Cuban musician and composer Paquito D’Rivera. A recipient of ten GRAMMY Awards, the renowned saxophonist will talk about his piece Ladies in White, inspired by recent events in his native country.

Later, we go with Patricio Lerzundi to the backstage of Repertorio Español, to meet Puerto Rican actress Denise Quiñones. The beautiful actress, who won the Miss Universe pageant in 2001, will tell us about her transition to cinema and theater and about the characters that she has played in the last few years.

Finally, we will speak with John Ross, a journalist and writer from New York. We will talk in depth about his life and his dedication, for over 50 years, to activism and independent media. From the bohemian Greenwich Village of the 60s to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, as well as the Latin America of the 80s and the Zapatista Revolution of the 90s.

Foundation for Iberian Music presents Ricardo Viñes: Pianist and Visionary

The Foundation for Iberian Music presents

Ricardo Viñes: Pianist and Visionary

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A lecture recital by

Alejandra Pacheco, piano

Thursday, July 29, 2010 ∙ 7pm

Segal Theater

CUNY Graduate Center

365 Fifth Ave.

Tel. 212 817 1819

P r o g r a m

Valses poéticos

Enrique Granados (1867-1916)

Menuet antique

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

Cuatro piezas para piano

Menuet spectral

En Verlaine mineur

Threnodie, ou Funerailles antiques

Crinoline, ou La Valse au temps de la Montijo

Ricard Viñes (1875-1943)

Fantasia baetica

Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)

Ricardo Viñes appears as one of the most outstanding Catalan performers of the 20th Century, and one of the brightest figures in the pre-War Piano world. Endowed with a prodigious talent, an extraordinary memory and an enormous curiosity for every field of human knowledge, Viñes was friend, dedicatoire, and first-performer of some of the most important composers of his time: Ravel, Satie, Debussy, Falla, Granados, as well as Stravinsky, and Poulenc, among others.

Alejandra Pacheco studied piano with Alicia de Larrocha in Barcelona (Spain) for several years and has focused her concert activity on the Spanish music of the 20th Century. She has also published several research works on this subject, and taken part in International Congresses and Seminars. She has been granted a Fulbright scholarship and is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Foundation for Iberian Music.

To listen to the performance, click the link below:

Antoni Parera Fons: A Songwriter’s Journey.

19 November, 2009

(Listen to Andreu Riera perform the 2008 Composer’s Commission “Mentum”)

View partial score

The Foundation for Iberian Music presents a concert entirely dedicated to the music of Antoni Parera Fons.

Presented by MUSIC IN MIDTOWN

Thursday, November 19, 2009 – 1pm
Elebash Recital Hall
The Graduate Center
365 Fifth Ave & 34th St
Free, No Reservation Required

Introductory remarks by Candice Agree of WQXR, the classical music station of the New York Times

Program:

Lamento de Jueves Santo en Cuenca ( Holy Thursday Lament in Cuenca)
for solo violin, work commissioned by the 2006 Sacred Music Festival of Cuenca (Spain)
Joan Plana Nadal, Violin

Correnties (Currents)
for narrator, soprano, violin and piano
Guillem Frontera, narrator; Isabel Rey, soprano; Andreu Riera, piano; Joan Plana Nadal, violin

Songs for Loli
for soprano and piano on lyrics by Isabel Rey
Isabel Rey, soprano; Antoni Parera Fons, piano

Mentum
for solo piano
Foundation for Iberian Music Composers’ Commission 2008
Andreu Riera, soprano

Composer, pianist, arranger, and producer ANTONI PARERA FONS was born in Mallorca in 1943 and studied piano and composition in Barcelona. His songs have been performed by acclaimed singers including José Carreras, Montserrat Caballé, Alfredo Kraus, José Van Dam, Jaime Aragall, current Met’s baritone Juan Pons, and many others. In 1992 he wrote the music for the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games. More recently, the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya (Barcelona Symphony and Catalonia National Orchestra) premiered a large ambitious orchestral work, Nocturn per a un capvespre blau (Nocturne for a blue evening). As an arranger, he has participated in many notable events including the CD Christmas in Vienna with Diana Ross and The Three Tenors. As a producer, his recording of the opera El gato con botas (Puss in boots) by Xavier Montsalvatge was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2004. He has won numerous awards, gold and platinum discs as well as various national and international recognitions.

With support from:

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SpainCulturalCooperation

Consulate General of Spain in New York