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Concurso De Cante Jondo
El Concurso del Cante Jondo (Contest of the Deep Song) was a fiesta of flamenco arts, music, song, and dance, held in Granada in 1922. Conceived and initiated by composer Manuel de Falla, it enjoyed early and strong support from the poet Federico GarcÃa Lorca. The two-day evening event was held outdoors at the Alhambra. The show included the best of well-known flamenco artists, but the contest's prize money was reserved for amateur performers. Producing the artistic event Falla's purpose The Spanish classical composer Manuel de Falla (1876–1946) was the principal organizer of the ''Concurso''. He sought to encourage and enhance the music of ''cante jondo'' (literally "deep song", referring to a key element of flamenco, as opposed to "cante chico", the "lighter" more accessible element), which he sensed had fallen into a period of decadence. Falla simply recognized in flamenco an art form of great beauty and drive. The composer had devoted years developing his intuitive ability ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polos
The ''polos'' crown (plural ''poloi''; el, πόλος) is a high cylindrical crown worn by mythological goddesses of the Ancient Near East and Anatolia and adopted by the ancient Greeks for imaging the mother goddesses Rhea and Cybele and Hera. The word also meant an axis or pivot and is cognate with the English, 'pole'. It was often open at the top with hair cascading down from the sides, or it could be reduced to a ring. In the classical period, mortal women seem not to have worn poloi, but they are more commonly seen in terracotta statues of women from the , thus the use in statues of goddesses can be seen as a deliberate archaism. Some poloi seem to have been made by weaving though it is not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Óscar Esplá
Óscar Esplá y Triay (5 August 1886 – 6 January 1976) was a Spanish composer. The Conservatorio Superior de Música ( conservatory) of the city of Alicante is dedicated to him. The ''Premio internacional de composición Óscar Esplá'' (Óscar Esplá international prize for composition) was created in 1955 and is awarded by the city of Alicante. Life Óscar Esplá was born on 5 August 1886 in Alicante, in the Kingdom of Spain. His early musical studies were with his father, Trino Esplá, and with Fernando Lloret and . In 1903 he went to Barcelona to study industrial engineering, but later changed to study philosophy. He studied composition with Francisco Sánchez Gavagnac. In 1911, after winning an international prize, he went to Austria and Germany; he met Ferdinand Löwe in Vienna, and Max Reger in Meiningen. In 1912–13 he was in Paris; he met Saint-Saëns, but there is no evidence that he studied with him. In 1936 Esplá was appointed director of the Conservato ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conrado Del Campo
Conrado del Campo y Zabaleta (28 October 1878 – 17 March 1953) was a Spanish composer, violinist and pedagogue. Career Del Campo was born in Madrid and became professor at the Real Conservatorio de Música in Madrid in 1915, where he was an especially influential teacher. Among his pupils were Salvador Bacarisse, Julián Bautista, and Fernando Remacha. His compositions were played in the Theatre Real of Madrid for José MarÃa Alvira. His opera ''Lola la Piconera'' made its debut at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, 12 December 1952. He was also the principal conductor of the Madrid Symphony Orchestra. Del Campo was a major figure in the conservative musical climate of Franco's Spain, writing in a late Romantic style. Since his death his music has fallen into comparative oblivion. He died in Madrid aged 74. Selected works Symphonic works Del Campo's characteristic symphonic music takes the form of evocative tone poem A symphonic poem or tone poem is a piece of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federico Mompou
Frederic Mompou Dencausse (; alternatively Federico Mompou; 16 April 189330 June 1987) was a Spanish and Catalan composer and pianist. He is remembered for his solo piano music and songs. Life Early years Mompou was born in Barcelona to the lawyer Frederic Mompou and his wife Josefina Dencausse, who was of French origin. His brother (1888–1968) became a painter. His sketch of a simple farmhouse appeared on the covers of all of Frederic's published music. Mompou studied piano under Pedro Serra at the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu before going to Paris, to study at the Conservatoire de Paris, which was headed by Gabriel Fauré. Mompou had heard Fauré perform in Barcelona when he was nine years old, and his music and performing style had made a powerful and lasting impression on him. He had a letter of introduction to Fauré from Enrique Granados, but it never reached its intended recipient. He entered the Conservatoire (with another Spaniard, José Iturbi), bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
JoaquÃn Turina
JoaquÃn Turina Pérez (9 December 188214 January 1949) was a Spanish composer of classical music.''Encyclopædia Britannica'' online (2014)"JoaquÃn Turina"/ref> Biography Turina was born in Seville. He studied in Seville as well as in Madrid. He lived in Paris from 1905 to 1914 where he took composition lessons from Vincent d'Indy at his Schola Cantorum de Paris and studied the piano under Moritz Moszkowski. Like his countryman and friend, Manuel de Falla, while there he got to know the impressionist composers Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy, whom he was heavily inspired by. Marco, Tomás (1993)''Spanish Music in the Twentieth Century'' pp. 36–44. Harvard University Press On 10 December 1908 he married Obdulia Garzón and together they had five children. She was the dedicatee of the '' Danzas fantásticas'', which he completed in 1919. Along with de Falla, he returned to Madrid in 1914, working as a composer, teacher and critic. On 28 March 1916, he joined the Madri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ignacio Zuloaga
Ignacio Zuloaga y Zabaleta (July 26, 1870October 31, 1945) was a Spanish painter, born in Eibar (Guipuzcoa), near the monastery of Loyola. Family He was the son of metalworker and damascener Plácido Zuloaga and grandson of the organizer and director of the royal armoury ( Don Eusebio) in Madrid. His uncle was Daniel Zuloaga. His great-grandfather who was also the royal armourer was a friend and contemporary of Goya. Biography In his youth, he drew and worked in the armourer's workshop of his father, Plácido. His father's craftmanship, a familial trade, was highly respected throughout Europe, but he intended his son for either commerce, engineering, or architecture, but during a short trip to Rome with his father, he decided to become a painter. His first painting was exhibited in Paris in 1890. At the age of 18 he moved to Paris, settling in Montmartre, to find work and training as a painter. He was nearly destitute, and lived off some meager contributions by his moth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Amor Brujo (1986 Film)
''El amor brujo'' (''Love, the Magician'', or ''Wedded by Witchcraft'') or ''Carlos Saura Dance Trilogy, Part 3: El Amor Brujo'' is a 1986 Spanish musical film written and directed by Carlos Saura. It was directed and choreographed in the flamenco style by Maria Pagès. It is the third part of the Saura's flamenco trilogy he made in the 1980s, after ''Bodas de sangre'' in 1981 and '' Carmen'' in 1983. The film was screened out of competition at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival. The film is based on ''El amor brujo'' composed by Manuel de Falla. Plot summary Candela, who is loved by Carmelo, marries José in a pre-arranged marriage decided by their respective fathers. José is in love with the flirtatious LucÃa and dies defending her honor. Carmelo is mistakenly arrested for the killing, and spends several years in prison. After being released, he declares his love for Candela. Although Candela is now "free" to marry Carmelo she is haunted (and obsessed) by the ghost of José, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorca CloseUp
Lorca may refer to: Lorquino football clubs * CF Lorca Deportiva, founded 2012 * CF Lorca Deportiva (1969), dissolved 1994 * Lorca Atlético CF, 2010–2012 * Lorca Deportiva CF, 2002–2012 * Lorca Deportiva CF B, 2005–2009 * Lorca FC, 2003–2018 * Lorca FC B, 2012–2018 Media * Gabriel Lorca, fictional characters from the TV series ''Star Trek: Discovery'' * ''Homenaje a Federico GarcÃa Lorca'', a work for chamber orchestra by the Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas * ''Lorca'' (album), the fifth album by singer-songwriter Tim Buckley * Tango Lorca, an American tango ensemble People Given name * Lorca Van De Putte (born 1988), Belgian football defender * Philip-Lorca diCorcia (born 1951), American photographer Surname * Carlos Lorca (born 1944), Chilean physician and politician * Federico GarcÃa Lorca (1898–1936), Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director * Juan Gonzalo Lorca (born 1985), Chilean footballer Places * Castle of Lorca, a Lorquino fortress of med ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rubén DarÃo
Félix Rubén GarcÃa Sarmiento (January 18, 1867 – February 6, 1916), known as Rubén DarÃo ( , ), was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-language literary movement known as ''modernismo'' (modernism) that flourished at the end of the 19th century. DarÃo had a great and lasting influence on 20th-century Spanish-language literature and journalism. He has been praised as the "Prince of Castilian Letters" and undisputed father of the ''modernismo'' literary movement. Life His parents, Manuel GarcÃa and Rosa Sarmiento were married on April 26, 1866, in León, Nicaragua, after obtaining the necessary ecclesiastic permissions since they were second degree cousins. However, Manuel's conduct of allegedly engaging in excessive consumption of alcohol prompted Rosa to abandon her conjugal home and flee to the city of Metapa (modern Ciudad DarÃo) in Matagalpa where she gave birth to Félix Rubén. The couple made up and Rosa even gave birth to a second child, a daughter nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PÃo Baroja
PÃo Baroja y Nessi (28 December 1872 – 30 October 1956) was a Spanish writer, one of the key novelists of the Generation of '98. He was a member of an illustrious family. His brother Ricardo was a painter, writer and engraver, and his nephew Julio Caro Baroja, son of his younger sister Carmen, was a well-known anthropologist. Biography PÃo was born in San Sebastian, Guipuzcoa, the son of Serafin Baroja, also a noted writer and opera librettist. The young Baroja studied medicine at University of Valencia and received a doctorate at the Complutense University in Madrid at 21. Although educated as a physician, Baroja practiced only briefly in the Basque town of Cestona. His memories of student life became the raw material for his novel ''The Tree of Knowledge''. He also managed the family bakery for a short time, running unsuccessfully on two occasions for a seat at the Cortes Generales (the Spanish parliament) as a Radical Republican. Baroja's true calling, however, was alway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Ortega Y Gasset
José Ortega y Gasset (; 9 May 1883 – 18 October 1955) was a Spanish philosopher and essayist. He worked during the first half of the 20th century, while Spain oscillated between monarchy, republicanism, and dictatorship. His philosophy has been characterized as a "philosophy of life" that "comprised a long-hidden beginning in a pragmatist metaphysics inspired by William James, and with a general method from a realist phenomenology imitating Edmund Husserl, which served both his proto-existentialism (prior to Martin Heidegger's) and his realist historicism, which has been compared to both Wilhelm Dilthey and Benedetto Croce." Biography José Ortega y Gasset was born 9 May 1883 in Madrid. His father was director of the newspaper ''El Imparcial'', which belonged to the family of his mother, Dolores Gasset. The family was definitively of Spain's end-of-the-century liberal and educated bourgeoisie. The liberal tradition and journalistic engagement of his family had a pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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