Compact Discoveries 154: The Pleasures of Ponce
Series: Compact Discoveries
From: Fred Flaxman
Length: 00:58:30
Although Mexican composer Manuel Ponce was a 20th Century composer, dying in 1948, his music is romantic and tuneful to the core, reminiscent of his 19th Century predecessors. In this hour Fred Flaxman presents Ponce's Piano Concerto, Balada Mexicana, Gavota, Dance of the Ancient Mexicans, Estrelita, Mazurca No. 23, Juventud, Souvenir and Quimera. Performers include pianists Jorge Federico Osorio and Eva Suk, and the State of Mexico Symphony Orchestra conducted by Enrique Bátiz.
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Although Mexican composer Manuel Ponce was a 20th Century composer, dying in 1948, his music is romantic and tuneful to the core, reminiscent of his 19th Century predecessors. In this hour Fred Flaxman presents Ponce's Piano Concerto, Balada Mexicana, Gavota, Dance of the Ancient Mexicans, Estrelita, Mazurca No. 23, Juventud, Souvenir and Quimera. Performers include pianists Jorge Federico Osorio and Eva Suk, and the State of Mexico Symphony Orchestra conducted by Enrique Bátiz.
Broadcast History
This is the world premiere of this program.
Transcript
Program 154
"The Pleasures of Ponce"
MUSIC: Ponce: excerpt from Gavota performed by The State of Mexico Symphony Orchestra conducted by Enrique Bátiz [ASV Digital CD DCA 926, track 4] [under the following]
Hello and welcome to Compact Discoveries. I’m your guide, Fred Flaxman, and for the next hour let’s enjoy the “Pleasures of Ponce” together.
MUSIC: clip stops at end of theme
Manuel Ponce, who lived from 1882 until 1948, was a Mexican composer, music educator and scholar of Mexican popular and folk music who made use of this tradition in his concert works.
He studied in France, Italy and Germany, in addition to Mexico. He met the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos in Paris in the 1920s, after which Villa-Lobos wrote: “I remember that I asked him at that time if the composers of his country were as yet taking an interest in native music, as I had been doing since 1912, and he...
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Additional Credits
Compact Discoveries is made possible in part by grants from an anonymous donor, Isabel and Marvin Leibowitz, the Puffin Foundation ("continuing the dialogue between art and the lives of ordinary people"), and Barry and Florence Friedberg. It is a production of Compact Discoveries, Inc., a nonprofit, tax-exempt corporation located at 36 Pickens Lane, Weaverville, North Carolina, and on the web at compactdiscoveries.com.
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