Between March 18 and May 20
Ávila, March 12, 2024.- The Ávila City Council has scheduled a new edition of the ‘Telling the Music’ cycle, which will offer five talks in which national and international works that are part of the history of music will be discussed.
The director of the Ávila Symphony Orchestra, José Luis López-Antón, will be in charge of offering the different talks that make up this cycle, which will begin next March 18. All conferences will take place at the Episcopio, at 8 p.m.
– March 18: Rimsky-Korsakov’s Spanish Caprice
– March 25: Alpine Symphony by Richard Strauss
– April 15: The riot of Ruperto Chapí
– May 6: Mendelssohn’s ‘Italian’ Symphony
– May 20: Edward Elgar’s Enigma Variations
The cycle will include works that were premiered mainly between the mid-19th century and the beginning of the 20th, starting with Rimsky-Korsakov’s Spanish Capricho (1887), influenced by the landscapes and music that the Russian composer encountered during a cruise on a training ship. through the Mediterranean.
From Russia, the cycle will travel to Germany, with the composer Richard Strauss and his Alpine Symphony (1915), considered one of the great works created by this author, who was inspired by the walks he took through the Alps. On March 25 it will be the turn of this work.
And from Germany to Spain, changing country and also musical style, so that the audience of the ‘Telling the Music’ cycle can delve into zarzuela. To this end, on April 15, Ruperto Chapí’s work titled La revoltosa (1897) will be addressed, one of the masterpieces of the boy genre with Felipe and Mari Pepa as the consecrated protagonists of this lyrical farce.
The cycle will continue on May 6 with Symphony number 4 in A Major, ‘Italiana’, by Mendelssohn (1833), the last symphony of this composer, which arose from a trip he made through Italy and through which he seeks to express the folklore and customs of this country.
And on May 20, the cycle will conclude with the Enigma Variations by Edward Elgar (1899), composed as an improvised portrait of each of the author’s friends and his wife, the English novelist and poet Caroline Alice Elgar.
Admission to the talks will be free until capacity is reached.
2024-03-12 13:05:44
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