Date/Time:
Date(s) - 03/07/2014
2:30 am - 4:30 am
Location:
Rm. 3491 (Large Seminar Rm.), Graduate Center
About:
The topic of this music forum is “Spain was not (so) different: In the search of a Spanish Music Avant-garde (1956-1975)”, featuring Germán Gan-Quesada from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain!
This talk will examine how Spanish composers responded to and incorporated post-World War II avant-garde trends—from serialism to indeterminacy, from graphic notation to electroacoustic music, and from intertextuality to other postmodernist devices—both technically and aesthetically.
Composers such as Juan Hidalgo, Luis de Pablo or Cristóbal Halffter usually visited Darmstadt Summer Courses and Donaueschingen Festival from the end of 1950s. The role of some short-lived initiatives (Nueva Música in Madrid, Música Oberta in Barcelona) in spreading international avant-garde repertoires on Spanish stages should not be ignored. For example, in the early 1960s Stockhausen, Ligeti, and Cage, among others, gave talks and presented concerts in Madrid and Barcelona. It led, perhaps indirectly, to the organization in Madrid in 1965 of two significant events: the I Biennale for Contemporary Music and the ISMC Festival, and of three “MusicFestivals of Spain and the Americas” throughout the decade (1964, 1967, 1970). Moreover, several European and US companies published works by Halffter, de Pablo, Josep M. Mestres Quadreny and Xavier Benguerel; additionally, international orchestras, ensembles and performers began to play regularly works by Spanish avant-garde composers.
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