8 May 2008:   Medieval Percussion Instruments in Spain and Italy:  A Little Festival.  Music by Ensemble Sendebar, papers by Susan Weiss, Ichiro Fujinaga, and Mauricio Molina.  More information click here.  Elebash Recital Hall ,  365 Fifth Ave (@34th St) @ 1:00pm.  No reservations required.

28 Apr 2008:  The Valencian Baroque Villancico a lecture by professor José Luis Palacios, Universitat Jaume I, Castelló, Spain.  Room 3992 @ 5:30pm.  Free No reservations required.

	31 March 2008:  Carlos Surinach and The Creation of Modern Dance in New York.  Elebash Recital Hall , The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave (@34th St) @ 6:30pm. Free -- No reservations required. “My music, even the most serious pieces, all suggest, in some way, dance.” – Carlos Suriñach, February 1987 ” Finally, a homage to Carlos Surinach.” --Alicia de Larrocha {click for her full statement} Carlos Suriñach and the Creation of Modern Dance in New York will explore the composer’s unique contribution to the world of dance from the 1950s through the 1980s. A roundtable discussion exploring the many aspects of Suriñach’s musical personality will be followed by a recital featuring the concert version of Embattled Garden, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of its premiere. Born in Barcelona, Spain on March 4, 1915, Carlos Suriñach came to the U.S. in 1951, making his home for many years in New York City. Well-known in Europe as a conductor, pianist and composer of opera, he is best remembered for his compositions for dance written after his immigration to the United States. Martha Graham, Alvin Ailey, Doris Humphrey, Robert Joffrey, John Butler, Pearl Lang, Francisco Moncion and Antonio are among the choreographers who commissioned Suriñach. Countless others, including Paul Taylor, Norman Morrice, Garth Fagan, and Doug Varone have created dances to Suriñach’s music. As Suriñach himself once said, “Dance is in my blood.” His death in 1997 came as a shock to all who knew him. Panel Discussion Ninotchka Devorah Bennahum, dance historian and author, Antonia Mercé “La Argentina”: Flamenco and the Spanish Avant Garde Stuart Hodes, veteran Martha Graham dancer and teacher, choreographer and writer Carmen de Lavallade, dancer, choreographer, actor Antoni Pizà, Foundation for Iberian Music, The City University of New York Aaron Sherber, Music Director and Conductor, The Martha Graham Company  Candice Agree of 96.3FM WQXR, the classical station of The New York Times, will moderate the panel.  Panel discussion to be followed by Concert PROGRAM —Trois Chansons et Danses Espagnoles:  No. 3 Adagio--Allegro tranquillo for piano —Flamenco Cyclothymia for violin & piano Adam Kent, piano & Airi Yoshioka, violin —Ritmo Jondo —Embattled Garden (conducted by Paul Hostetter) Perspectives Ensemble Sato Moughalian, musical director   Sponsored by
	29 January  2008:  óscar Esplá and the Guitar.  A lecture-recital by Jan de Kloe including works by Esplá and other Spanish and Latin American composers.  Segal Theater,  365 Fifth Ave (@34th St) @ 7:00pm.  No reservations required. To make a living during war years, the Spanish composer Oscar Esplá (1886-1976) was a music critic and he used his vast knowledge of the repertoire and music history to document his articles, some of which contain references to the guitar. In Spain he was in contact with the major players of his days and this lecture goes through the contacts and correspondence with guitarists such as Andrés Segovia and José de Azpiazu who played and edited transcriptions.   During the troublesome period of the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War, Esplá lived in Belgium.  The lecture is illustrated musically. Jan de Kloe was born in The Netherlands and lives in Belgium. He studied guitar at the Conservatoires of Brussels with Nicolas Alfonso and Liege with Gonzales Mohino and did master classes with Julian Bream and Turibio Santos.  He performed in Europe and the USA. He wrote two books about Oscar Esplá which cover the years this Spanish composer lived in Belgium (1936-1949) and articles on the same subject which appeared in musicological journals in Belgium and Spain.  Please visit www.dekloe.be Program:  Oscar Esplá (1886-1976)  -Three levantinas (2, 5 and 8 from Melodías y temas  de danza para piano,  1931)  -Antaño (impresiones musicales para piano)    Joaquín Montero (c1740-c1815)  -Sonata in D (adagio, allegro)    Vicente Sojo (1887-1974)  -Five pieces from Venezuela – Cantico, Aguinaldo,  Canción, Aire venezolano,  Galerón    Agustín Barrios (1885-1944)  -Vals No. 3  -Chôro da Saudade  -Gavota  -Una limosnita por el amor de Dios
	25 and 31 January 2008: Tolstoy’s Last Days. A theatrical concert by the Ensemble for the Romantic Century, hosted by the Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation, featuring the music of Rachmaninov interwoven with excerpts from the diaries and letters of Tolstoy and his wife. For details, see http://www.romanticcentury.org/concert2.html. Tickets $45; free to CUNY students and faculty. Call 1 212 288 8020 for reservations.  Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY. The concert is at 7:30. There is a pre-concert lecture at 6:30.

17 January 2008: Of Foxes and Hedgehogs: Music and the Worldview of Tolstoy's Fictions. A seminar with Valentina Izmirlieva, Associate Professor of Slavic Literatures and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Columbia University, and James Melo, musicologist for the Ensemble for the Romantic Century and Senior Editor at RILM. The seminar lays the groundwork for the upcoming theatrical concert, Tolstoy’s Last Days (see 25 and 31 January 2008). CUNY Graduate Center, Skylight Room, 365 Fifth Avenue, 9th Floor, New York, NY. Tickets are $10 at the door. $10 (free for series subscribers, patrons, and CUNY students, faculty, and staff).

Dec 4 2007:  The Foundation for Iberian Music presents Sepharad: New Approaches to a Musical Identity.  Building upon last year's success, the Sephardic Scholarship Series will host two scholars and two bands together for a performance-based forum on Sephardic music today. At the forefront of this renaissance in Sephardic arts is the Third Annual Sephardic Music Festival. In conjunction with this festival, the Sephardic Scholarship Series provides an opportunity to explore aspects of Sephardic musical culture.  Performances by Smadar and Asefa will be followed by an audience-interactive panel discussion with the artists and with ethnomusicologists versed in the field of Sephardic Jewish music. The primary focus of discussion will center on the role of modernity in Sephardic music, including how these artists negotiate preservation and innovation. Curated by Samuel R Thomas Segal Theater,  365 Fifth Ave (@34th St) @ 6:30pm.  No reservations required. $10 dollars suggested donation.  For more information visit http://www.asefamusic.com | http://www.myspace.com/asefa | http://www.jatm.org

	12 Nov 2007: Iberian Instrumental Traditions:  The Vihuela and Baroque Guitar.  The Foundation for Iberian Music presents a lecture-recital exploring he instrumental traditions of Spain. Iberian Instrumental Traditions: The Guitar. Period-instrument specialist Manuel Minguillón investigates the Spanish repertoire of plucked-instruments including the vihuela, arch-lute and the Baroque guitar with works by Amat, Guerau, Sanz, and others. A panel discussion moderated by Antoni Pizà, Director of the Foundation for Iberian Music, will follow the concert.  The Skylight Room, The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave @ 34th St. @ 3pm, FREE - No reservations required
	31 October 2007: Iberian Instrumental Traditions:  The Sacred Piano.  The Foundation for Iberian Music presents a lecture-recital exploring the instrumental traditions of Spain with Alberto Urroz.  Recital Hall, 365 Fifth Ave (@34th St). No reservations required. FREE
	Oct 1 2007:  Iberian Instrumental Traditions:  The Piano. The Foundation for Iberian Music presents a lecture-recital exploring the instrumental traditions of Spain with Adam Kent.   Segal Theater,  365 Fifth Ave (@34th St) @ 3:00pm. No reservations required.
	30 April 2007:  California Mission Music: A Concert and a Round Table. @ 7:00pm FREE; No reservations required | Recital Hall|The Graduate center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10016 | Tel. 212-8171819

 

3 May 2007:  The Catalan piano trio.  A concert, a seminar, and symposium including works by Granados, Cassadó, Gerhard, Malats, Serra, Montsalvatge, Alís, Soler, Balada, Brotons etc.  The program will include our Composers' Commissions 2006:  Premiere of Román Alis's Piano Trio, a composition commissioned by the Foundation for Iberian Music and featuring the Damocles Trio.  A public discussion with the composer, the performers, and musicologist Antoni Pizà will follow the performance.  365 Fifth Ave (@34th St).  No reservations required.  FREE

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14 February 2007: Composers' discoveries: The Songs of Antoni Parera Fons. The Foundation for Iberian Music presents a voice and piano recital entirely dedicated to the vocal music of Antoni Parera Fons, with Maia Planas, soprano, and Sergi Cuenca, piano. Introduced by Antoni Pizà, Director of the Foundation for Iberian Music, and Candice Agree, weekend evening host of WQXR, the New York Times classical radio station. Antoni Parera Fons’s songs have been performed by José Carreras, Montserrat Caballé, and Maria del Mar Bonet. He also wrote the music for the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games.  @ 7:00pm FREE; No reservations required | Proshansky Auditorium|The Graduate center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10016 | Tel. 212-8171819

2006
 

The Foundation for Iberian Music sponsored the translation into Spanish Granados in Fact and Fiction by John W. Milton.

 

The Foundation for Iberian Music cooperated with World Dance New York in the production of a DVD for teaching flamenco in schools.

 

Iván Iglesias was a Visiting Scholar.  His research centered on Jazz in post-Fracoist Spain.

 

5 December 2006: "The Llibre vermell of Montserrat and Early Iberian music" a concert, seminar, and symposium with early music ensemble Sendebar and Maricarmen Gómez Muntané, Professor of Medieval Music at the Universitat Autòtona de Barcelona, Anne Stone, Assistant Professor of Music, Queens College and The Graduate Center; Susan Boynton, Assistant Professor of Music, Columbia University; Mauricio Molina, founder and music director, Sendebar; Enric Bou, Professor of Literature, Brown University; and Antoni Pizà, Foundation for Iberian music.  Sponsored by the Foundation for Iberian Music and the Institut Ramon Llull.  Segal Theater, 365 Fifth Ave (@34th St) @ 7pm. No reservations required.  FREE. Sponsored by

 

13 November 2006: Sherban Lupu in Recital.  Sponsored by the Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation. Elebash Recital Hall, 365 Fifth Ave (@34th St) @ 7pm. No reservations required.  FREE. Click here for details about the program and the performers.

  

6 October 2006:  Brazilian Piano Trios.  A concert by the Damocles Trio introducing and celebrating the piano trios by Heitor Villa-Lobos and Oscar Lorenzo Fernândez's Trio Brasileiro.   Co-sponsored by the Center for Latin-American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies and the  Foundation for Iberian Music.  Recital Hall, 365 Fifth Ave (@34th St) @ 7pm.  No reservations required.  FREE

 

17 March: VIVA REGONDI!  Music by Giulio Regondi for the English Concertina and Guitar, presented by The Center for the Study of Free-Reed Instruments and featuring concertinists Allan Atlas, Douglas Rogers, and Wim Wakker, and guitarist Alexander Dunn,  with Elizabeth Bell, soprano, and Jin-Ok Lee, piano. Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (34th Street and Fifth Avenue), 7:30 pm. Tickets $20 ($12 with CUNY ID or Senior Citizen ID). For tickets and information, call Office of Continuing Education at (212) 817-8215 or continuinged@gc.cuny.edu

 

2 March:  Schoenberg in Barcelona.  Like Paris and Berlin, interwar Barcelona (c.1920-1936) was a cauldron of international modernist creativity: Schoenberg composed Moses und Aron, Webern conducted the Pau Casals Workers’ Orchestra, and Alban Berg's Violin Concerto was premiered.  This powerful momentum shaped a generation of composers (Robert Gerhard, Joaquim Homs, and Josep Soler, among others) and inspired the work of a generation of visual artists and literary minds (Antoni Tàpies, Joan Brossa, J.E. Cirlot, and other members of the “Dau al Set” group). The program includes: Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) Drei Klavierstücke, Op. 11 1. Mässig; 2. Sehr langsam; 3. Bewegt Robert Gerhard (1896-1970) Dos Apunts / Two Sketches for piano Arnold Schoenberg Klavierstück, Op. 33b   Joaquim Homs (1906-2003) in celebration of his centennial (see our Joaquim Homs's resource site). Tres invenciones sobre un acorde Set peces / Seven Pieces Díptic II: 1. El vent no té repòs; 2. Plany Impromptu No. 6 for piano trio   Robert Gerhard “The Cave of Montesinos,” from Don Quixote Three Impromptus: I. Giochevole   A Panel discussion moderated by Antoni Pizà with Walter Frisch, Adam Kent, and members of the Damocles will follow the performance.  Read Nuria Schoenberg's evocation of Barcelona here, a chronology, Cirlot's poems and other materials here. Sponsored by the Institut Ramon Llull of Barcelona,  Segal Theater, 365 Fifth Ave (@34th St) @ 7pm.  No reservations required.  FREE.

February 2:  Ernesto Halffter Centennial.  A piano recital surveying his piano music featuring Adam Kent.  A public discussion moderated by musicologist Antoni Pizà will follow the performance.  Recital Hall, 365 Fifth Ave (@34th St) @ 7pm.  No reservations required.  FREE.

January 23:  Biography on the Periphery: Writing about Manual de Falla, a lecture by Carol A. Hess, Associate Professor, Bowling Green State University (Ohio), author of Manuel de Falla and Modernism in Spain, 1898-1936 and Sacred Passions: The Life and Music of Manuel de Falla, among other books.  Room 3102.06, The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave (@34th St) @ 5pm.  No reservations required.  FREE.

1-2 December 2005:  Romania • Enescu • Europe, conference and Festival Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Death of George Enescu, co-organized by the Romanian Cultural Institute of New York and co-sponsored by the Mannes College of Music. Call for papers.

November 16:  Composers' Commissions 2005:  Piano works by Josep Prohens.  The Foundation for Iberian Music presents pianist Maxim Anikushin appearing in a concert that will include a performance of the Beethoven's "Emperor" Piano Concerto (No. 5) with The Orchestra Celebrate! under the direction of Laurine Celeste Fox and Beethoven's Piano Sonata 0pus 111. The concert will also include two piano works commissioned by the Foundation for Iberian Music  Dreams/Somnis and Freqüències by Josep Prohens. A public discussion with the composer moderated by musicologist Antoni Pizà will follow the performance.  365 Fifth Ave (@34th St) @ 7pm. FREE

October 25:  Granados in Fact and Fiction, a concert, panel discussion, and presentation of two recently published books on the life and work of Enrique Granados (1867-1916):  The Fallen Nightingale, a novel by John W. Milton (Edina, MN:   Swan Books / Beaver Pond Press, Inc., 2004) and Enrique Granados:  Poet of the Piano by Walter Aaron Clark (New York:  Oxford University Press, 2005).  Panelists include authors Walter Aaron Clark, musicologist, John W. Milton, writer, Douglas Riva, pianist, and Antoni Pizà, musicologist.  Sponsored by the Consultate General of Spain and the Foundation for Iberian Music 365 Fifth Ave @ 34th St., Proshansky Auditorium @ 7:00pm, FREE. sponsored by

May 4:  The Mompou Chair at the Foundation for Iberian Music  presents Piano Conversations: The Catalan Piano Tradition, a series of lecture-recitals sponsored by the Institut Ramon Llull of Barcelona, organized and moderated by Antoni Pizà; honorary artistic advisor Alicia de Larrocha.  Session VI:  Out of Catalonia:  Diaspora and Exile in the Music of Gerhard, Balada, and Surinach with pianist Adam Kent.  Foundation for Iberian Music, 365 Fifth Ave @ 34th St.   Free @ 7:00pm. sponsored by

April  18:  The Mompou Chair at the Foundation for Iberian Music  presents Piano Conversations: The Catalan Piano Tradition, a series of lecture-recitals sponsored by the Institut Ramon Llull of Barcelona, organized and moderated by Antoni Pizà; honorary artistic advisor Alicia de Larrocha.  Session V:  Granados's Goyescas, with pianist Benita Meshulam.  This event will take place at 12::30am @ Shepard Hall Auditorium, The City College, CUNY (138th St & Convent Avenue), trains 1 & 9 @ 135th St or A, B, C, D @ 145th St. sponsored by

April  11:  The Mompou Chair at the Foundation for Iberian Music  presents Piano Conversations: The Catalan Piano Tradition, a series of lecture-recitals sponsored by the Institut Ramon Llull of Barcelona, organized and moderated by Antoni Pizà; honorary artistic advisor Alicia de Larrocha.  Session IV:  Albeniz's Iberia, Book III & IV, with pianist Pedro Carboné, program notes by Joseph Horowitz.  Foundation for Iberian Music, 365 Fifth Ave @ 34th St.   Free @ 7:00pm.

16-19 March: Music's Intellectual History: Founders, Followers, and Fads. The first conference of RILM (Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale). In early 2004, RILM published the volume Speaking of Music: Music Conferences from 1835 to 1966 which provides a fascinating window on the intellectual history of music scholarship. The volume guides readers through papers on music presented at some 500 international conferences, bringing to light the trends and ideas that characterized musicological and ethnomusicological inquiry from the heyday of Romanticism through the dawn of Modernism to the multicultural and multidisciplinary movements of the mid-20th century. This volume, chronicling 130 years of music scholarship’s intellectual history, will provide a starting point for the conference, which aims to assess changing attitudes and viewpoints in writings on music from antiquity to the present day. For more information, click here.

March 17:  Concert and panel discussion.  Anais and Her Family:  The Story of the Nin Family, a Lineage of Writers, Musicians, and Painters, with Suzanne Nalbantian, Adam Kent, and Antoni Pizà.  The subject of a feature film, several documentaries, and many critical studies, Anaïs Nin (París 1903 -  Los Angeles 1977) is well known for the outspoken sexuality of her writings, especially her legendary Diary.  Perhaps less known, though equally deserving of public attention, are the other members of her family:  her brother, the eminent composer and pianist Joaquín Nin-Culmell ( Berlin 1908 – Berkeley 2004) and their father, the musicologist, composer, and pianist Joaquín Nin Castellanos (Havana 1879-1949).  Also of interest are the members of the previous generation:  the combative Joaquín Nin y Tudó (ca. 19th Century), who wrote with passion against bullfights and the role of women in family life, and the painter José Nin y Tudó (1840-1908), who specialized in funerary portraits.  In all, an remarkable dinasty of writers, musicians, and painters.  Sponsored by the Foundation for Iberian Music & Instituto Cervantes NY.  Proshansky Auditorium, 8:30pm, Free.  The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. (@ 34th St.)  This event is part of the conference Music's Intellectual History: Founders, Followers, and Fads.

March  21:  The Mompou Chair at the Foundation for Iberian Music  presents Piano Conversations: The Catalan Piano Tradition, a series of lecture-recitals sponsored by the Institut Ramon Llull of Barcelona, organized and moderated by Antoni Pizà; honorary artistic advisor Alicia de Larrocha.  Session III:  Albeniz's Iberia, Book I & II, with pianist Pedro Carboné; program notes by Joseph Horowitz.  Foundation for Iberian Music, 365 Fifth Ave @ 34th St.   Free @ 7:00pm. sponsored by

March  9:  The Mompou Chair at the Foundation for Iberian Music  presents Piano Conversations: The Catalan Piano Tradition, a series of lecture-recitals sponsored by the Institut Ramon Llull of Barcelona, organized and moderated by Antoni Pizà; honorary artistic advisor Alicia de Larrocha.  Session II:  Montsalvatge’s Antillean Modernism with Benita Meshulam.  Foundation for Iberian Music, 365 Fifth Ave @ 34th St.   Free @ 7:00pm.

February 16:  The Mompou Chair at the Foundation for Iberian Music  presents Piano Conversations: The Catalan Piano Tradition, a series of lecture-recitals sponsored by the Institut Ramon Llull of Barcelona, organized and moderated by Antoni Pizà, with artist-in-residence Adam Kent; honorary artistic advisor Alicia de Larrocha.  Session I:  Frederic Mompou, the Voice of Catalonia. Foundation for Iberian Music, 365 Fifth Ave @ 34th St.   Free @ 7:00pm. sponsored by

February 10:  Book presentation and concert.  Sacred Passions:  The Life and Music of Manuel de Falla by Carol A. Hess published by Oxford University Press.  Piano recital by Adam Kent.  Panel discussion with Carol Hess, Adam Kent, and Antoni Pizà.  Instituto Cervantes, 211 E 49th St., NY.  Information at (212) 308 7720.  Sponsored by the Foundation for Iberian Music & Instituto Cervantes, @ 7:00pm.

January 26:  The Foundation for Iberian Music and Dance Films Association's 33rd annual Dance On Camera Festival present:  Roots and Innovation in Flamenco, two documentary films on opposing trends in the art of flamenco.  RAP AND THE CROSS (USA) is a film about the Corraleras Sevillanas enjoyed each year by non-professionals in Lebrija; BAILAORES (Italy) explores the efforts of four dancers trying to break the boundaries of flamenco dance; and MADRUGADA (USA) interprets a sunrise in the California desert through flamenco dance.  A panel discussion with the film makers and moderated by Antoni Pizà will follow.  CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave @ 34th St.  Proshanksy Auditorium @ 7:00pm

13 December: Zyklon. An opera by Peter King and Julian Barry. Alan Johnson, musical director. Concert version. The horrifying story of Fritz Haber, Nobel Prize winner and inventor of chemical weapons. Co-sponsored by The Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation and The Center for Jewish Studies . Free, but pre-registration is required; call 1-212-817-8215 to reserve your seat. 6:00 p.m., Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (@ 34th Street), New York, NY.

10 December: Siren Songs. Mary Nessinger, voice;  Marilyn Nonken, piano. Ensemble 21 presents two of New York's finest interpreters of new music, mezzosoprano Mary Nessinger and pianist Marilyn Nonken, in an evening that explores the music of two young American composers and revisits a 20th-century classic. Co-sponsored by Ensemble 21 and The Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation. Tickets $15 ($10 for students). 8:00 p.m., Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (@ 34th Street), New York, NY.

17-19 November:   A Century of Composing in America: 1820-1920 sponsored by Music in Gotham. The conference will begin Wednesday afternoon, 17 November at the Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue @ 34th St. There will be two concerts of chamber music composed in the United States, one on Wednesday evening and one to conclude the conference on Friday evening at the Recital Hall. Click here for the complete program.

14 November: Challenges and Trends in Hispanic Music Today:  Nationalism, Multi-Nationalism, And Internationalism, a panel discussion with Salvador Brotons, Tania León, Paquito D'Rivera, Damocles Trio members Adam Kent, Airi Yoshioka, Sibylle Johner, and Antoni Pizà, in conjunction with the Damocles Trio concert on November 21 at Merkin Concert Hall.  Performances of Salvador Brotons's Flute Sonata and Tania León's Parajota Delaté with Salvador Brotons, flute, and the Damocles Trio.   At the Foundation for Iberian Music, Segal Theater CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave @ 34th St, @ 3:00pm.  This event is underwritten by a generous grant from the Spanish Ministerio de Educación, Cultura, y Deporte as part of the "Música por doquier" Festival.  For more information, visit www.musicapordoquier.org and www.damoclestrio.com

4-6 November: The Foundation for Iberian Music is proud to participate in the international conference Don Quixote:  The First 400 Years at Hofstra University (Long Island, NY) November 4-6 2004.  The conference will include numerous performances and lectures on musical topics including “Don Quixote’s Musical settings:  An Overview of The First 400 Years” by Antoni Pizà.  For more information visit www.hofstra.edu.

12, 19, 26 October & 2 Nov.:  Workshop:  Flamenco: The Art and the Life.   Flamenco, the monumental and emblematic art of southern Spain, enjoys immense international popularity.  But is the essence of the art being compromised in a bid for commercial success, and can flamenco survive the fusion movement that attempts to incorporate jazz and other styles into this singular art?  This course will analyze flamenco song and guitar through rare, unpublished films and recordings of its greatest traditional interpreters as well as noted younger artists who are radically changing the music.  It will survey the history of the art, its social context, its regional styles, its characteristic rhythmics and structures, and key forms ranging from the Deep Song loved by García Lorca and Falla to the lighter styles.  Various approaches to flamenco guitar will be illustrated, and dance will be viewed in its traditional context as an important but non-primary aspect of the art.   BROOK ZERN, Director of Flamenco Center USA and Flamenco Editor of Guitar Review, has spent years in Spain documenting and studying this music.  He has written, spoken and taught extensively about the art, and has played a key role in preserving the rare documentary films and recordings that will be used in this course.  Brook Zern will be introduced by Antoni Pizà.  Sponsored by the Foundation for Iberian Music, 4 Tuesdays, October 5, 12, 19, 26; from 6:00-8:30pm

1 November: Via Toledo by Night (1918), by Raffaele Viviani (1888-1950), Neapolitan playwright, actor, singer, director, composer. A stage reading with music and an American premiere for a Neapolitan master of the stage. In this one-act musical play, the night life on Via Toledo, one of the major thoroughfares of Naples, comes alive with song, comic duets, choral action, jokes, and lazzi as those struggling to make a living -- street vendors, bakers, cabdrivers – intermingle with vagabonds, petty gangsters, pimps, prostitutes, the police, and the wealthy bon vivants. Viviani’s bitter yet comic vision of the lives of the Neapolitan poor caught the attention of Maxim Gorky and Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovitch-Danchenko. His clear social criticism led to censorship by Mussolini’s Fascist regime. Viviani wrote over 65 musical plays, many of which are performed today in Italy. This is the first to be presented in the United States. Jane House, director; Martin Hennessey, musical director; Allen Atlas, concertina; Beau Bothwell, double bass. The reading will be followed by discussion and a reception. Producer: Jane House Productions. Co-sponsors: Istituto Italiano di Cultura of New York, and The Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation, Martin E. Segal Theatre, Continuing Education and Public Programs, CUNY Graduate Center. FREE. 6:15 p.m., Elebash Recital Hall, 365 Fifth Avenue (@ 34th Street), New York, NY.

1 November:   Latin jazz piano master class  by Alon Yavnai. Organized by the Foundation for Iberian Music.  Event introduced by Antoni Pizà.   This event will take place at 11:00am @ Shepard Hall Auditorium, The City College, CUNY (138th St & Convent Avenue), trains 1 & 9 @ 135th St or A, B, C, D @ 145th St.

October 18:  Cuban Jazz workshop and concert.  Oriente López, pianist.  Event introduced by Antoni Pizà.  Organized by the Foundation for Iberian Music.  This event will take place at 11:00am @ Shepard Hall Auditorium, The City College, CUNY (138th St & Convent Avenue), trains 1 & 9 @ 135th St or A, B, C, D @ 145th St.

October 18:  Duende: Two-piano music from Spain.  Elena Martín & José Melitón, duo pianists.  Works by Infante, Albéniz, Granados, Soler, and Falla.  Event introduced by Antoni Pizà.  Organized by the Foundation for Iberian Music.  This event will take place at 1:00am @ Shepard Hall Auditorium, The City College, CUNY (138th St & Convent Avenue), trains 1 & 9 @ 135th St or A, B, C, D @ 145th St.

October 4:  The Complete Piano Music of Manuel de Falla, a CD presentation and concert by  Benita Meshulam. Program includes transcriptions from La Vida Breve, El Sombrero de Tres Picos, and the complete original piano music.  Event introduced by Antoni Pizà.  Organized by the Foundation for Iberian Music.  This event will take place at 11:00am @ Shepard Hall Auditorium, The City College, CUNY (138th St & Convent Avenue), trains 1 & 9 @ 135th St or A, B, C, D @ 145th St.

September 10:  The complete piano trios of Joaquín Turina performed by Damocles Trio celebrating the release of their recording on Claves Records. Pre-concert discussion with pianist Adam Kent, violinist Airi Yoshioka, and cellist Sibylle Johner of the Damocles Trio, and Antoni Pizà.  At the Foundation for Iberian Music, Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave @ 34th St, @ 7:30pm.  This event is underwritten by a generous grant from the Spanish Ministerio de Educación, Cultura, y Deporte as part of the "Música por doquier" Festival.  For more information, visit www.musicapordoquier.org and www.damoclestrio.com

Anaïs and her Family, a one-day symposium dedicated to the Nin family, whose members include writer Anaïs, composer Joaquín Nin-Culmell; composer Joaquín Nin Castellanos; writer Joaquín Nin Tudó; and painter José Nin Tudó.  The symposium will include a piano recital by Adam Kent;  a panel discussion with Mr. Kent, Antoni Pizà, and Deirdre Bair, among other scholars; and a screening of films on the family.   Dates will be announced.  Organized and sponsored by the Foundation for Iberian Music. POSTPONED

Spring semester:  The Ph.D.–D.M.A. Program in Music at the CUNY Gradute Center will offer a new doctoral seminar in music history and ethnomusicology.  Taught by professor Peter  Manuel and Antoni Pizà, Multicultural Spain:  Studies in the Music of Catalonia, Andalusia and other Iberian Regions will present  a survey of the popular and art music traditions of Spain, with special attention to flamenco, zarzuela, opera, Latin-American-influenced genres, and the vihuela, guitar and keyboard repertoires, as well as themes such as nationalism, exoticism, and the role of Spain in the European musical imagination. Coverage will include major composers such as Albéniz, lesser-known ones such as Guerau and Literes, and important scholars and their contribution to the construction of a national musical identity.  The course is co-sponsored the Foundation for Iberian Music through its Càtedra Mompou / Mompou Chair, which is supported by a grant from the Institut Ramon Llull of Barcelona.   For more information visit http://web.gc.cuny.edu/Music/classes/index.html and http://www.llull.com. sponsored by

29 April:  The Foundation for Iberian Music and the Instituto Cervantes have established an agreement by which all concerts presented by this Spanish cultural institution will be free for CUNY students.  The first concert includes a selection of Catalan medieval works from the Llibre Vermell de  Montserrat as well as songs by several Catalan troubadours. This evening is organized in cooperation with the doctoral seminar taught by professor Peter  Manuel and Antoni Pizà, Multicultural Spain:  Studies in the Music of Catalonia, Andalusia and other Iberian Regions.  This seminar is sponsored by  the Foundation's Càtedra Mompou / Mompou Chair held during the Spring 2004 by Antoni Pizà.  It  is dedicated to the study  and dissemination of Catalan music and is supported by a grant from the Institut Ramon Llull of Barcelona.   All concerts are presented at the Instituto Cervantes at Amster Yard in New York located at 211-215 East 49th St.  For more information call 212 – 308 7720 or email cenny@cervantes.es. Thursday April 29, 2004 @ 6:00pm.

26 March: The Incredible Concertina II: From village greens and Shakespeare songs to Victorian salons and the modern concert hall.  CUNY Graduate Center, Elebash Recital Hall, 365 Fifth Avenue (@ 34th Street), 7:00 p.m.. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Free-Reed Instruments. Click here for more details.

19 March: Emily Dickinson: This is my Letter to the World, performed by the Helding/Blyth Duo, with special guest, actress Karen Lordi. CUNY Graduate Center, Elebash Recital Hall, 365 Fifth Avenue (@ 34th Street), 7:00 p.m..Tickets: $15 ($7.50 for students). To order tickets, please call 1-212-817-8215.  Sponsored by The Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation and Continuing Education and Public Programs of The CUNY Graduate Center, and Dickinson College. Click here for more details.

February 28, 8:00 PM  The Brooklyn Philharmonic and IberArtists New York present "Celebrating Don Quixote" a musical homage to literary masterwork Don Quixote de la Mancha on the occasion of its 400th anniversary.  The centerpiece of this concert is a late masterpiece of Manuel de Falla:  an exquisite chamber opera-- a puppet show within a puppet show--based on a scene from Don Quixote  set in medieval Spain.   For more information call the Brooklyn Academy of Music 718-636-4100.  The Foundation for Iberian Music and Iberartists have collaborated on many occasions including the concert series “Homage to Joaquín Turina” (1999) and “Music and Architecture in Twentieth-Century Spain” (2003).  The program notes include an essay by Antoni Pizà.  A post-concert discussion will follow the concert.

February 25:  "Manuel de Falla's Concerto and Master Peter's Puppet Show:  Two Unique Neoclassical Works From The 1920's."   A lecture by Yvan Nommick, Director of the Manuel de Falla Archive in Granada (Archivo Manuel de Falla).  Professor Nommick will be introduced by Antoni Pizà.  Organized and sponsored by the Foundation for Iberian Music.  See also related event on February 28.

10 December:  Sylvia Torán in Concert:  Iberian Piano Music.  Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center.  365 Fifth Ave & 34th St.   Organized by the