“A Master Class' is how THE WASHINGTON POST describes Ángel Gil-Ordoñez, the director of one of our own Resident Ensembles, latest concert, which included works by Ravel, Sidney Bechet, Satie, and a screening of René Clair’s “Entr’acte.” WOW!
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“There is still today and there was from the beginning a certain kind of hostility to modernism across the arts. It doesn’t exist just in music, but it has a particular problem in music.” Charles Rosen in THE WAY OF THE MODERNS, ed. by Antoni Pizà, brepols.net/products/IS-97…

It is the 25th anniversary of Tete Montoliu's death and Oxford U. Press has just published Benjamin Fraser's BEYOND SKETCHES SPAIN, a thought-provoking analysis of the cultural environment that nourished Montoliu's magnificent music. global.oup.com/academic/produ…

Our lecture series continues. Last session included papers by Russell Patrick Brown, Anna de la Paz Shalom, and Gabriela Estrada. The final session will be on Dec/11 @ 12EST (NY time), and will include authors Scott Alves Barton, Agnes Nasozi Kamya, and Julie Galle Baggenstoss.

Eva Nathanson, née León, gives it all in performance. After completing her doctorate at CUNY with a diss. on Montsalvatge, she continued concertizing internationally. On October 20 she performed at our own Elebash Hall playing Mozart and Schubert. WOW! evaleon.com

At our own Elebash Hall, the Orion Quartet just performed Bartók’s Quartet No.6 in D Minor, Sx.114,BB 119 & Beethoven’s Quartet No.16 in F Major, Op.135, No. 1. To the remarkable intensity of this music one can only add: Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen.

Thanks to all participats in our public online series. The next conversation is on Nov. 6 at 12:00 EST (NY time) and will include Russell Patrick Brown, Clara Mora Chinoy, Anna Shalom, and Gabriela Estrada.
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Can we describe and analyze non-Western music using Western music theory terminology? This and many other questions will be argued in this important upcoming conference at our Center.
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Is opera a vocal art, a stage art, or a musical art?
Antoni Pizà and Yves Lenoir discuss L'ORFEO after a recent (modernized) performance. ÓPERA ACTUAL #LOrfeo #orfeo #músicaantigua #óperabarroca teatreprincipal Orquestra Simfònica Illes Balears Federico M. Sardelli

It is the centennial of his death, and Barcelona's MUESEU DE LA MUSICA will celebrate the life and work of Felip Pedrell (1841-1922) in a magnificent exhibition. We congratulate the curators and institutions of such a remarkable event.
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The Body Questions: The Tangled Roots of Flamenco. A series of talks at The Foundation for Iberian Music and Conventry University celebrating the seminal book edited by K. Meira Goldberg and Antoni Pizà
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There's no way of going back. The digital humanities are here to stay. Our colleagues here a The CUNY Graduate Center are organizing a a conference on the new landscapes of digital music scholarship. Mark your calendars. rilm.org/gdms2023/

Benet Casablancas, a frequent guest here, is surely the most international composer of Spain. In October Ensemble Reconsil Wien will premiere in Austria his Quadern de Haikus, for small chamber ensemble, followed by performances in Tokyo, and Buenos Aires. Congratulations!!

«La Veuve andalouse» presents the first and only facimile and critical edition of Rossini’s song. It includes lyrics in all the languages of the first printed versions, several unknown Rossini letters, illustrations, and many contemporaneous reviews. reichenberger.de/Pages/dem_n1.h…

Our colleagues and frequent partners Anna Tonna, Walter Clark, and Isabel Pérez Dobarro will be at the Harvard OBSERVATORIO to discuss the Garcia family. See the informatoin below:
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From santeria to Puerto Rico's underground hip hop. CUNY's Graduate Center's LIVE@365 - A GLOBAL MUSIC SERIES brings a concert by ÌFÉ. Not to be missed: Oct 7, 2022, @ 7pm at our own Elebash Recital Hall
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Check out some of the past and present research at the CUNY Foundation for Iberian Music and the Brook Center: From Chopin to Xenakis; from Bretón to Rossini; modernism and cultural studies; critical and facsimile editions.
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Have we created a new field of studies in music? A new discipline perhaps? There has been more than 100 scholarly papers on Rosalía in about three years. No one asked why--until now. Who's afraid of Rosalía Studies, anyway?

Recently, Barcelona's Museu de la Música presented a homage to the late Xavier Carbonell (1952-2022). Albeit very different, with Antoni Caimari (1943-2021), in the 70s, they were some of the pioneers of sound art and other disruptive musical pulsations. lavenc.cat/index.php/cat/…

Inflation. Another sort of INFLATION. kind: Is there an applause inflation? Should everyone get a standing ovation? Does itr mean anything an ovation that everyone gets? A reflection on the matter by Antoni Pizà.