The Museum of Music begins a collaboration with El Dorado, the cultural association that has been promoting the Desvarío 25. Flamenco Nou Barris festival for the past five years, with a prologue titled From Llobet to Montoya, focusing on the key role played by the city of Barcelona in the development of the classical flamenco guitar. The event includes two lectures and two guitar concerts. Activity presented as part of the Grec Festival.
Javier Suárez-Pajares will speak about the origins of flamenco guitar in Barcelona in the talk Barcelona, a Romantic Environment for the Flamenco Guitar.
Talk in Spanish.
See the full festival program here.
At 8:00 p.m., Carles Trepat will offer a guitar concert. More information and ticket sales here.
Javier Suárez Pajares (b. 1965) is a tenured professor and chair of the Department of Musicology at the Complutense University of Madrid. He is president of the Spanish Guitar Society and co-director of Roseta, a journal dedicated to research and scholarship on the guitar, lute, and vihuela. His three main research areas focus on 20th-century Spanish music (biography, musical analysis of the early century, music and politics), the guitar (its history and repertoire), and musical institutions of the Early Modern period. He is the author of numerous books and articles on the Spanish guitar, especially from the 19th and 20th centuries, and is widely regarded as the leading authority in this field by the academic community.
Organized by El Dorado, Sociedad Flamenca Barcelonesa, and the Nou Barris District.
In collaboration with the Festival Grec.