Events of the Barry Brook Center of Music Research

Barry S. Brook
Center for Music Research and Documentation

The Foundation for Iberian Music

Events

Mompou Chair Càtedra Mompou

sponsored by

Joaquim Homs's Resources

A Short History of Catalan Music

Iberian Music Resources: Dissertations

Web Library & Links

Program

The Foundation for Iberian Music At AGlance

2001-2008

Courses

Cuban Jazz workshop

Flamenco: The Art and the Life

Latin jazz piano master class

Latin Popular Music

Multicultural Spain: Studies in the Music of Catalonia, Andalusia and other Iberian Regions

Music of Three Cultures: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Medieval Spain

The Business of Latin Music: A Seminar

The Catalan Keyboard Tradition: From Soler to de Larrocha

The Great Spanish Opera Singers

The Llibre Vermell of Montserrat

Composers’ Rediscoveries, Concerts, & Lecture-Recitals

Antoni Parera Fons' Songbook

A tribute to Xavier Montsalvatge (1912-2002)

Barcelona Modernista: The music of Roberto Gerhard and Xavier Montsalvatge

Ernesto Halffter’s Centennial

Joaquim Homs Centennial

Julián Menéndez Rediscovered

Sylvia Torán in Concert: Iberian Piano Music

The Academia Marshall at 100: The Catalan Piano Tradition from Granados to Larrocha

The Complete Piano Music of Manuel de Falla

The Complete Piano Trios of Joaquín Turina

The Music of Rafael Rodríguez Albert (1902-79)

Spain’s New Generation: Mauricio Sotelo, Eneko Vadillo, Juan Manuel Artero, Roberto López

The Piano Music of Román Alís

The Popular Songs of García Lorca

Two-piano music from Spain

Oscar Esplá and the Guitar

Carlos Suriñach and the Creation of Modern Dance in New York

Composers' Commissions

2005: Piano Works by Josep Prohens

2006: Piano Trio by Román Alís

2007: Hesperia by Anna Cazurra

2008: Chamber Music by Antoni Parera Fons

Book and Films Presentations

Mi vida sexual by Paquito D’Rivera

Music & Literature in the Spanish Caribbean: Tina Casanova’s books

Oscar Esplá in Belgium by Jan de Kloe

Sacred Passions: The Life and Music of Manuel de Falla by Carol A. Hess

Rap and the Cross (USA, 2004)

Bailaores (Italy, 2004)

Madrugada (USA, 2003)

The Fallen Nightingale by John W. Milton

Enrique Granados: Poet of the Piano by Walter Aaron Clark

Round-tables, Lectures, & Panel Discussions

Arquitectura y Música: Una poética del espacio

Celebrating Don Quixote

Challenges and Trends in Hispanic Music Today: Nationalism, Multi-Nationalism, And Internationalism

Manuel de Falla's Concerto and Master Peter's Puppet Show: Two Unique Neoclassical Works From The 1920's

The Presence on the Past in the Llibre vermell of Montserrat

Exhibitions

A Lost Generation: Musicians and People of the Balearic Isles from the Alan Lomax Photo Archive

Music and Architecture in 20^th Century Spain and Antoni Gaudí: Una visión poliédrica

Salvador Dali: Dream of Venus. An Exhibition at the Queens Museum of Art

Conferences

Music in Art: Music Iconography as a Source for Music History

Music's Intellectual History: Founders, Followers, and Fads

Don Quixote: The First 400 Years

Romania, Enescu, Europe

Higini Anglès Dissertation Award

2006: Mauricio Molina

Visiting Scholars & Composers in residence

Anna Cazurra - María Palacios - Iván Iglesias - Fátima Bethencourt - José Leopoldo Neri - Cristina Menzel - José Luis Palacios

Contributing Scholars

Adam Kent - Brook Zern - Jan De Kloe - Joseph Horowitz - Yvan Nommick - Walter Aaron Clarck - Walter Frisch - Marcarmen Gómez Muntané - Susan Boynton - Anne Stone - Mauricio Molina; Enric Bou - Susan Weiss - Ischiro Fujinaga - Ninotchka Devorah Bennahum - Stuart Hodes - Carmen de Lavallade - Aaron Sherber - Candice Agree