Kishwaukee Symphony Orchestra opens season with Spanish accent Sep 25, 2008
Also on the menu, selections from Carmen Suites 1 and 2 by Georges Bizet and Manuel de Falla s The Three Cornered Hat Suite, No. 2. Season tickets ( 45 for adults; 35 for seniors and students; 18 for children under 12) as well as general admission tickets ( 13 for adults; 10 for seniors and students; 5 for children under 12) will be sold at the door beginning at 7 p.m.. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
Granada's hidden gardens Aug 21, 2008
The same minibus route to the Alhambra serves the Carmen (an enclosed villa garden), but you'll exit sooner at the Alhambra Palace Hotel, walking along the hilly road past the Manuel de Falla concert hall. Built to memorialize Christian martyrs, the cloistered site provided sanctuary as a Carmelite convent in the 1500s. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Symphony on quest for 'Don Quixote' Apr 13, 2008
On the other was "Master Peter's Puppet Show" by Manuel de Falla, which turns a single scene from the book into something terse, spare and prodigiously dull. As that precis suggests, the pleasures of Thursday's concert in Davies Symphony Hall were concentrated almost exclusively during the second half, when principal cellist Michael Grebanier took the spotlight as the soloist and protagonist for Strauss' pictorial score. (San Francisco Chronicle)
The Air This Week Apr 1, 2008
Today 7 a.m. Composer of the Week: Manuel de Falla (repeated 3:45 p.m.) (through Friday) (BBC Radio 3). 9 a.m. John Nelson/Geneva Opera: Berlioz "Les Troyens" Acts 1 and 3 (BBC Radio 3). (Boston Globe)
American Pianist Grace Nikae Mar 15, 2008
This recording features piano works by Alexander Scriabin, Enrique Granados, Manuel de Falla and Franz Liszt. Nikae's interests are educational as well: she regularly gives workshops, masterclasses, recital lectures and interdisciplinary lectures connecting music to other fields in the arts (such as French Impressionism or German Romantic Poetry). (Suite101.com)
A young conductor and an old master lead BSO Mar 8, 2008
At 31, he is a polished and graceful conductor with solid musical instincts - that much was made clear by an incisive performance he led of a challenging work by Manuel de Falla on a Boston Symphony Chamber Players program that took place earlier this season. He also has wide-ranging interests in contemporary music and opened Thursday night's program by leading a vivid performance of Oliver Knussen's "The Way to Castle Yonder" - a brief suite of imaginative music culled from Knussen's opera... (Boston Globe)
First concert by a Mexican orchestra in Ames is Sunday Feb 29, 2008
Other selections for the evening will include "The Three Cornered Hat" by Manuel de Falla, "Sinfonia India" by Carlos Chavez, and Johannes Brahms' "Symphony No. 4.". Barton urged Mid-Iowa residents to attend this one-of-a-kind concert. (Ames Daily Tribune, IA)
Talk of the Town: Forget the caffeine and try peppermint power instead Dec 12, 2007
The program will feature Gioacchini Rossini s Overture to William Tell, Suites No. 1 and 2 from Manuel de Falla s Three Cornered Hat and Ludwig van Beethoven s 7th Symphony. For five pre-selected concerts, we provide round-trip transportation from a local parking lot to the restaurant of choice, drop members off within walking distance of Tucson Music Hall, and provide refreshments on the return trip, says Art Woodard, FATSO president. (Green Valley News & Sun, AZ)
Artists look for Lorca's mysterious spirit Dec 11, 2007
and Marc Vives installed a tiny puppet show, reminiscent of the ones Lorca produced with the Spanish composer Manuel de Falla for his youngest sister and her friends. These marionettes, however, take the form of mechanized insects, and their recorded lines are adapted from Lorca's play about a family vendetta, "Blood Wedding." It is a tribute to the surrealist vein of the man who wrote about the day when "the preserved butterflies rise from the dead" and enraged ants "throw themselves on the... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Classical thoughts Oct 26, 2007
He makes the compelling argument that audiences need a cultural context to understand, for instance, the slow movement of the Harpsichord Concerto of Manuel de Falla, a piece that makes musical references to old Spain. I agree wholeheartedly, and find that this sort of multiple-artifact cultural journey is the kind of thing that audiences really enjoy, and I don t doubt that we ll be seeing more rather than less of this sort of thing in the future. (The Palm Beach Post)
Bringing the viola out of the shadows Oct 5, 2007
Some of the first works she and Levin played together were songs by Manuel de Falla. Other composers featured on the new disc, like the Argentines Carlos Guastavino and Carlos Lopez Buchardo, were introduced to them by Levin's students at Harvard. (Boston Globe)
ClassicFest returns to Christ Church Sep 10, 2007
Saturday features "Music from Copland House" starting at 7:30 p.m., with music "under Five Musical Flags" from Manuel de Falla (Spain), Maurice Ravel (France), Frederick Delius (Britain), Louis Moreau Gottschalk (the Confederacy) and Aaron Copland and Paul Schoenfield (United States). Performers are Smith, Muzijevic, violinist Curtis Macomber and soprano Nancy Allen Lundy. (Pensacola News Journal)
Salsa sizzles for 'Noche de Sabor' Aug 15, 2007
The ballet company will spice up the night with Hispanic artistry and offer up an exotic fusion of classical dance and ballet dishes fired up with the music of Minkus, Manuel De Falla, Astor Piazolla and others. The program will include excerpts from the ballet "Don Quixote" as well as Sueos Castellanos, Tangos, and Castilla (Flamenco). (Los Angeles Daily News)
Dance of Passion May 18, 2007
Born in 1971 in Buenos Aires, Mr. Paz attended Juan Manuel de Falla Conservatory, while simultaneously studying with maestros Miguel A. Bertero and Saul Cosentino. He's performed with major orchestras in Buenos Aires, including Estable del Teatro Colon. (Hopewell Valley News, NJ)
Classical Notes: Rapturous days in Spivey heaven Mar 7, 2007
In Manuel De Falla s Seven Popular Songs and a Cuban set by Xavier Montsalvatge, her voice crackled with earnest vitality. Still, DiDonato isn t especially soulful, and she works hard to shrug off interpretive plainness. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
