Thus, on Thursday, December 17, the poetic-musical cycle ‘Typing the mystery. Jazz and poetry under the stars’, will receive the poet Ricardo Virtanen who will read a selection of his work accompanied by a jazz band.
For his part, on Friday, December 18, the teacher in Music Education, Bachelor of Music History and Sciences, Master in Cultural Management and Doctor of Fine Arts Marco Antonio de la Ossa will give the lecture ‘Ángel, Musa y Duende: Federico García Lorca, Music and Malaga ‘.
The poet Ricardo Virtanen will star in the MVA in a new appointment of the cycle ‘Typing the mystery. Jazz and poetry under the stars’. The poetic musical recital will begin at 4.30 p.m. and will be free to enter until the capacity is completed, which has been reduced in compliance with the measures derived from COVID-19. It will be broadcast live through the Centro del 27 YouTube channel, the Provincial Council reported in a statement.
Born in Madrid, Ricardo Virtanen obtained his PhD in Hispanic Philology with his thesis ‘Guillermo de Torre’s avant-garde experience’. He is currently a professor at the Complutense University of Madrid.
In 1999 he published his essay on linguistics Resolute Language. His critical works include the anthologies’ Hitos y señas. Anthology of Spanish poetry ‘(1966-1996), published in 2001,’ De tu tierra. The poetry of La Mancha from entre Sigio’s (2015) and ‘Vestuario de almas. Anthology of Spanish epitaph of the 20th century ‘(2015); the edition of the Literary Almanac 1935 (2015); and the editions of ‘Carpe Amorem’ by Aurora Luque, ‘With lime on the fingers’ by Pilar Blanco, ‘Haikus Completos’ by Luis Alberto de Cuenca and ‘Sin por qué’ (Essential Poetry 1970-2018) by José Corredor- Matheos.
He has taken care of the editing of numerous works by Emilia Pardo Bazán such as Belcebú and other short novels (2015). In the creative field he has published the poetry books’ Footnotes’ (2005), ‘Epitafios’ (2005),’ La sed provocadora ‘(2006),’ Sol de hogueras’ (2010), ‘Nieve sobre Nieve ‘(2017),’ Intervalo ‘(2019, with which he won the XX José Luis Hidalgo Prize in Torrelavega) and’ Llama de luna ‘, published this year.
Likewise, the books of aphorisms ‘Pompas and circumstances’ (2008), ‘Labyrinth of effects’ (2014), ‘The blind funambulist’ (2019) and ‘Bazar de esquirlas’ (2019) are also his. He has also published the newspaper Cuaderno de interior (2013).
The music that will accompany the verses of Ricardo Virtanen will be in charge of Pablo García (Saxo), Ramón López (Drums), Daniel Amat (Piano) and Francis Posé (Double bass).
On the other hand, the cycle ‘Music in the Generation of 27’ is in charge of analyzing the notable role that musical culture played in the poetic group of 27. The appointment on Friday, December 18, at 4.30 pm, will host the conference ‘Angel, muse and duende: García Lorca, music and Malaga’, by Marco Antonio de la Ossa.
Admission is free until the capacity of the room is completed, which has been reduced to comply with health security measures, and the meeting will be broadcast live through the YouTube channel of the Center of 27.
Marco Antonio de la Ossa is a teacher in Music Education, a Bachelor in Music History and Sciences, a Master in Cultural Management and a Doctor of Fine Arts. He currently works at the CEIP San Fernando (Cuenca) as a teacher of Musical Education, and is an associate professor at the Faculty of Education of Cuenca (UCLM), within the Department of Musical, Plastic and Body Expression.
He is also an associate professor in the Master in Music Therapy at UNIR. Lastly, he directs and presents the Musiquerías space at Onda Cero Cuenca, the Didactics of Music and Musicology Conference at the UIMP of Cuenca and the Summer Festival Cuenca.
To date, he has published seven books, several chapters in collective books, and numerous articles in specialized magazines. Among his books are ‘Ángel, Musa and Duende. Federico García Lorca and Music ‘; ‘The Music in the Civil War’; ‘Repertory, History and Experiences in the rear’. (The Municipal Band of Music of Cuenca in the Civil War) or ‘Musical Reading at first sight’, among others.
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