Harmonic Processions are musical walks designed to bring harmony to places and the people who inhabit them. This September, we’ll be holding the XXVIII (28th, for those who don’t read…
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Dear people,
How is springtime treating you?? I’m totally in love with Central Park cherry blossoms… When they smile to the world, the whole city goes like little bees to smell and admire its genuine beauty! No one stays indiferent to their flowers, that seem to me like pop corn clusters:
Springtime is being quite active, after so much snow!
And I want to share with you guys some beautiful things that are happening around, just happened or will happen shortly! Since time doesn’t exist, past-present-future are occuring NOW.
Thanks for reading and supporting!
One of the most amazing and complex projects that I’ve been doing in New York City has been de composition, making and rehearsing of my tactile piece "Family Cord", specially created for blind people with the support of the FMDG Music School and the Consulate of Spain in New York.
This piece is made from a 44 meter black satin ribbon with white linen embroideries and 28 ceramic shapes, holded in two tree branches, one from a pine in Murcia (Spain) and the other from a berry tree by the Hudson River. A sort of sisterhood between the two continents.
You can watch the premiere from the Met YouTube Channel, where it was recorded and livestreamed that night of April 25th. The great performers you’ll watch are the adults chorus of the FMDG School along with some members from CoroDelantal (Cristina, Lindsey, Megan, Hope and Claudia). The piece starts towards minute 42:51.
Last March I was so lucky of taking part at the 36º Festival With no Fancy Name, hold by Experimental Intermedia at the SoHo art space Various/Artists. I have to tell that Phill Niblock, the founder of Experimental Intermedia, was for me the main inspiration and impulse to come and live in New York City, 18 years ago.
Yet today, Phill’s partner, Canadian video-artist Katherine Liberovskaya, continues carrying the festival and she invited me to share a round table with vocal composer and singer Nick Hallet.
Here I share with you the video in which each one of us do "our thing". My intervention starts about minute 40:
Last fall, Dúa da Pel gave a series of 10 concerts called "Qué Mar Da" (a word game that plays with the sea, "mar"), every Wednesday from October to December. They were hold by Mª José Cerdá, director of the Museo del Mar (Museum of the Sea) in Santa Pola (Alicante). This museum is situated inside a 16th century amazing castle.
In each of the concerts, we presented a 40 minute program, and the audience had to vote their favourite song, to be repeated next week. We’re sharing this 10 concerts in AltaVoz, so that you watch them from your couch!
Here you have the first one!
Family concert organized by Proyecto MAJA (Contemporary Music for Young Performers). This project is coordinated by cellist Elena Solanes in collaboration with Conservatorio de Música José Iturbi, and has the goal of introducing your children into contemporary music.
Students by professor Susana Pérez Otero will play my piece Son, for piano in 4 hands, part of my piece Tres cubanías.
The whole concert will be streamed at this link!
After that, it will remain in that same YouTube channel from the Professional Conservatory of Vigo.
Violin player Grazyna Gebert in a duet with pianist Carlos Juris will perform the two first of my Three Tangos in its version for violin.
Happy Birthday to us!! CoroDelantal NYC reactivates to celebrate our 15 years of our birth as a group. Such a glorious project!!
We’ll give two avant-garde concerts in one of our Headquarters, WindScape, an inspiring place in Industry City, full of resources and led by Ana Fisyak, one of our Mezzo Sopranos!
May 9th: We’ll have as our guests artists Julia Elsas (ceramic instruments), Sonic Mud (performers) and Jane Rigler (flutes).
May 20th: We’ll count on solo soprano Ally Christiansen.
The cultural center Salon on Kingston, in Crown Heights, holds every Tuesday these funny sessions to learn and enjoy singing in Spanish. An open mic without mic, but with grand piano and spotlights!
There’s free tea and cookies (and sometimes wine too!).
Come with your friends and spend a therapeutic charming evening with us. If you’re very brave, please come and sing as a solist! There’s song books for eveyone!
Suggested donation: $20 cash
As the Artist in Residence at Espacio de Culturas, inside the New York University, I organized this series of conversations or interviews about how is being a woman artist in New York City. The goal is opening a comfortable and secure space to talk about sorority, the dificulties of solutions of making money through art, and answer all the questions that the audience at NYC could have.
The series "Art for the Living" finishes on May 27th with our guest Liz Geisewite, fantastic choral conductor. She conducts, among others, Accord, the treble choir in which I have the luck of singing since past January.
Don’t miss her!
Have you anytime be in heaven? Come to this concert, because the trip is being tremendous! Listening to Accord Treble Choir is one of the closest experiences to the divine I’ve had in my entire life. I’m so lucky of being an alto singer there for these 6 months!
Conducted by Liz Geisewite (the one I’m interviewing some days before the concert) we’ll sing contemporary music, mostly composed by women and with a strong activist sense.
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Dear friends, I hope you’re blossoming like this beautiful spring in Central Park.
I have so much to update you!
The CoroDelantal project is turning into 15, and in January I came to the city where it all began to hold weekly rehearsals and give concerts this coming May. Stay tuned!
To whet your appetite, here’s a little prank we pulled last fall with the CoroDelantal Madrid:
As the Artist-in-Residence at the Espacio de Culturas, New York University, I invented ‘Art for the Living’, a series of interviews to women artists based in NYC.
My next guest is opera singer Anna Tonna, great friend and fantastic mezzo-soprano.
The blind people’s chorus of New York, that belongs to the FMDG Music School, along with some members of CoroDelantal NY, will premiere at the Met my tactile piece “Family Cord”.
The piece has been commissioned by the FMDG Music school with the support of the Consulate of Spain in New York. It’s made of satin ribbon with linen embroideries, clay shapes and tree branches.
From a screen you’ll see this art piece projected.
It’s the first time for this school to work on a tactile piece different than Braille!
Enter with the Met Museum General Entrance
The cultural initiative Salon on Kingston (Brooklyn) hosts every Tuesday amusing sessions I Do Sing in Spanish with Sonia Megías, an open mic with no mic but with grand piano. There’s songbooks for everyone!
Bring your friends and enjoy a therapeutic evening singing in group or as a soloist!
$20 Suggested donation
At the section Compositoras (Women Composers), musicologist Patricia Kleinman talks us about this Spanish composer.
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At our Chronicles section, we find this Newyorker story about purity, despite the circumstances.
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Each creator has her/his way of connecting to the muses. Newyorker John Zorn calls them genii.
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At section ReSonancia the figure of Newyorker Composer John Zorn, founder of ‘The Stone’, that was located at Avenue B, close to the house where I lived during academic year…
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Soledad de Bengoechea (1849-1894) was a spanish pianist and composer. Far from being limited to the domesic sphere and the 19th century family room, her musical production managed to enter…
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by Patricia Kleinman Pauline Viardot-Garcia (Paris, 1821- 1910) was one of the most influence figures in the european culture in the second half of the 19th century. She was not…
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