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The first program in our mini-series of concerts recorded live at the Manhattan school of Music's year long season of "Visiones: Music of Spain and Latin America." Music by Latin American composers, and all for the guitar! From Cuba’s Joaquín Nin and Leo Brouwer to Argentina’s Astor Piazzolla and Osvaldo Golijov to Uruguay’s Alfonso Broqua. Join me , Candice Agree, for this week's edition of "The Spanish Hour."
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The first program in our mini-series of concerts recorded live at the Manhattan school of Music's year long season of "Visiones: Music of Spain and Latin America." Music by Latin American composers, and all for the guitar! From Cuba’s Joaquín Nin and Leo Brouwer to Argentina’s Astor Piazzolla and Osvaldo Golijov to Uruguay’s Alfonso Broqua. Join me , Candice Agree, for this week's edition of "The Spanish Hour."
Broadcast History
KWAX, KWRX, KWVZ, kwax.com
July 2, 2011
Transcript
Hello, I’m Candice Agree. Welcome to The Spanish Hour, a weekly program of classical music from Spain and the Spanish-speaking world.
This week, a real treat for guitar lovers: Fiesta de la Guitarra, a live concert recording, made February 11th in Greenfield Hall at the Manahattan School of Music. The concert is part of Visiones: The Music of Spain and Latin America, a series presented from September 2010 through May 2011 that included students and faculty of the reknowned conservatory, as well as guest artists.
All the works on today’s program are by composers from Latin America. And the first guitar piece on the program is by Joaquín Nin. Born in Cuba 1879, Joaquín spent most of his first 21 years in Barcelona, with his father, returning to Cuba in 1901. A year later he married Rosa Culmell and moved to Paris. At the onset of World War Two, he returned to Havana where he died in 1949...
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Timing and Cues
PROMO:
:30 (:15 (outQ "... The Spanish Hour.") +:15 music bed for local air date/time.
PROGRAM:
58:30, no breaks.
Musical Works
| Title | Artist | Album | Label | Year | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Falla: La danza de los vecinos (program theme music) | Paco de Lucía, guitar | Paco de Lucía Plays Manuel De Falla. | Philips 836 032-2 | 1978 | 00:45 |
| Nín: Seguida española | Alan Stepansky, cello; Mark Delpriora, guitar | Fiesta de la Guitarra. | MSM MCD2011 No. 107 | 2011 | 09:05 |
| Piazolla: Histoire du tango | Elizabeth Janzen, flute; Bradley Colten, guitar | Fiesta de la Guitarra. | MSM MCD2011 No. 107 | 2011 | 19:46 |
| Golijov: Fish Tale | Linda Chesis, flute; David Leisner, guitar | Fiesta de la Guitarra. | MSM MCD2011 No. 107 | 2011 | 09:42 |
| Broqua: Cantos de Uruguay | Raehann Bryce, mezzo-soprano; Gabriella Roderer, flute Joshua Bavero, Isaac Sharp, guitars | Fiesta de la Guitarra. | MSM MCD2011 No. 107 | 2011 | 09:21 |
| Brouwer: Paisano Cubano con Lluvia | Jordan Dodson, Vilian Ivantchev, Steven Cowan and Clifton Brown, guitars | Fiesta de la Guitarra. | MSM MCD2011 No. 107 | 2011 | 09:01 |
Additional Credits
David Leisner and mark Delpriora, live performance Artistic Directors
Christianne Orto, Associate Dean of Distance Learning & Director of Recording, Manhattan School of Music
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