ENTENDER LA MÚSICA CONTEMPORÀNEA
Understand contemporary music
“As it grows, knowledge changes shape. There is no uniformity in true knowledge. All true jumps are performed laterally, like horse jumps in chess. Whatever unfolds in a straight line and is predictable is irrelevant. What is decisive is the twisted and, above all, lateral knowledge.”
Through the sessions of these courses, which combine theoretical, aesthetic or historical lectures with the live audition of works related to the theme of each session, an attempt has been made to make available to the interested public the necessary tools for to know, to understand the contemporary music and the reason for its identity. Each course generally consists of six lectures / auditions, from which some of the most notable episodes in the history of contemporary western music will be addressed. National and international teachers with extensive experience and academic prestige, together with the soloists of the Grup Instrumental de València, will be in charge of perform the works choosed, suggesting and pointing out the keys to music, the places of knowledge from which sounds are made history. Many times we believe that what we hear is the current, -the most current-, and we do not realize that they are the sound residues of a changing society. Our concerts, which are small gatherings of curious and sensitive people who have not yet lost the ability to be amazed, are simply signs, slight support guides that bring us the sounds of what is close in time, from which we travel our self without even being able to affirm that we are moving forward. Perhaps the best definition would be, in Elías Canetti's words, that we are advancing in a zig-zag, laterally.
Understand contemporary music | Selection
OTHER SEASON PROGRAMS
III UNDERSTAND CONTEMPORARY MUSIC | FUNDAMENTAL CLASSICS OF THE 20TH CENTURY
CONCERTS & LECTURES
1 LITTLE VIENNESE WALTZ | DECADENCY, THE BEGINNING | Joan Cerveró, director of the course | Works by Giacomo Puccini, Richard Strauss and Arnold Schönberg
2 HAMMERSCHLAG | GUSTAV MAHLER | José Luis Pérez de Arteaga, writer and musicologist | Works by Gustav Mahler
3 DES PAS SUR LA NEIGE | CLAUDE DEBUSSY | Félix de Azúa, writer and professor of aesthetics at the UB | Works by Claude Debussy
4 FREE SHOSTAKOVICH! | DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH | Luis Suñén, poet and music critic | Works by Dmtri Shostakovich
5 THE WINE THAT IS DRINKED BY THE EYES ... | ARNOLD SCHÖNBERG | Juan Ángel Vela del Campo, writer and music critic | Works by Arnold Schönberg
6 THE GREAT SACRIFICE | IGOR STRAVINSKI | Eugenio Trías, philosopher | Works by Igor Stravinsky
II UNDERSTAND CONTEMPORARY MUSIC | CONTEMPORARY MUSIC AND OTHER ARTS
CONCERTS & LECTURES
1 RYOANJI | MUSIC: LANDSCAPE AND ARCHITECTURES | Javier Maderuelo, Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Alcalá. | Works by Iannis Xenakis, José Mª Sánchez- Verdú, John Cage, Kaija Saariaho and Jesús Rueda
2 THE WING OF A DOUBT | MUSIC AND POETRY | Jaime Siles, poet | Works by Harrison Birtwistle and Joan Cerveró
3 BEAUTY HAS MANY NAMES | MUSIC AND AESTHETICS | Andrés Ibáñez, writer | Works by Lennie Tristano, Morton Feldman, Anton Webern and Zhou Long
4 REARWIEWMIRROR | MUSIC AND PAST | Susana Zapke, musicologist | Works by Alfred Schnitke, Arvo Pärt and John Tavener
5 SEE AND HEAR | MUSIC AND IMAGE | José Luis Téllez, musicologist | Works by Gyorgy Ligeti, Francisco Guerrero, Hans Werner Henze and Toru Takemitsu
I UNDERSTAND CONTEMPORARY MUSIC | CONTEMPORARY MUSIC AND OTHER ARTS
CONCERTS & LECTURES
1 ON THE VOLCANO | MAHLER, SCHÖNBERG AND THE VIENNA FIN DE SIÈCLE | Joan Cerveró, director of the course | Works by Anton Webern, Arnold Schönberg and Gustav Mahler
2 DEATH AND ESCAPE | MUSIC IN STALIN RUSSIA AND HITTLER GERMANY | Francisco Ramos, writer and music critic | Works by Paul Hindemith and Dmitri Shostakovich
3 EXILES | THE II REPUBLIC AND MUSIC / MUSIC IN FRANCO'S SPAIN | José Luís García del Busto, musicologist | Works by Robert Gerhard, Fernando Remacha and Joaquín Rodrigo
4 CUTTING EDGES | THE ISMS: STRAVINSKI, BARTÓK, VARÈSE AND OTHER INFLUENCES | Joan Cerveró, director of the course | Works by Igor Stravinski, Edgar Varèse and Béla Bartók
5 ZION PARK | MESSIAEN | Javier Costa, composer | Works by Olivier Messiaen
6 THE 60’ | LIGETI, BOULEZ, BERIO, DARMSTAD AND THE EUROPEAN AVANT-GARDE | Tomás Marco, composer | Works by György Ligeti, Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez and Kryzstof Penderecki
7 BEETHOVEN WAS WRONG | BEBOP, ROCK AND THE MINIMALISTS | Joan Cerveró, director of the course | Works by Steve Reich, Morton Feldman, and John Cage
8 MUSIC AT THE BORDER | POST, NEO, TRANS, IN, OUT, NOISES ... | José A. Orts, composer and sound artist | Works by Michael Daugherty, Sonic Youth, Pauline Oliveros, José A. Orts and Gavin Bryars