<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8071484020014896257</id><updated>2012-02-16T15:43:25.173+01:00</updated><category term='conciertos'/><category term='sparking'/><category term='Adagio'/><category term='Manuel de Falla'/><category term='Rumaniana'/><category term='valencianes'/><category term='Soneto a Córdoba'/><category term='pétillante'/><category term='Calçoneta'/><category term='Rodrigo'/><category term='Siglo de Oro'/><category term='Guadarquivir'/><category term='Capriccio'/><category term='Serenata'/><category term='Fundación Victoria y Joaquín Rodrigo'/><category term='archive.'/><category term='Cántico de San Francisco de Asís'/><category term='sonata'/><category term='Cançons'/><category term='Renacimiento'/><category term='Victoria Khami'/><category term='flauta'/><category term='archivo'/><category term='guitarra'/><category term='concerts'/><category term='violín'/><category term='Orquesta'/><category term='piano'/><category term='conferencias'/><category term='García del Busto'/><category term='Aranjuez'/><category term='gentilhombre'/><category term='conferences'/><category term='Musicología Complutense'/><title type='text'>Los hombres seremos en el paraíso... sonidos</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fundacionjoaquinrodrigo.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8071484020014896257/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fundacionjoaquinrodrigo.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Fundación Joaquín Rodrigo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01478179703963513382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>8</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8071484020014896257.post-8694332173025318446</id><published>2012-02-02T09:50:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2012-02-02T10:18:49.582+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='archive.'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='archivo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='conciertos'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='concerts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fundación Victoria y Joaquín Rodrigo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='conferencias'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='conferences'/><title type='text'>LA FUNDACIÓN VICTORIA Y JOAQUÍN RODRIGO ABRE SUS PUERTAS</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #28213a; line-height: 18px;"&gt;(Español/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #28213a; line-height: 18px;"&gt;English&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #28213a; line-height: 18px;"&gt;)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Thursday&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #28213a;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;, February 2, 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #28213a;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;La FVJR ha decidido abrir virtualmente sus puertas para que conozcáis sus actividades y descubráis el valioso fondo documental que contiene su Archivo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Iremos descubriendo por entregas las funciones que desarrolla de acuerdo con el siguiente índice:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="ListParagraph" style="margin-left: 54pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;I.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Historia y actividades&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="ListParagraph" style="margin-left: 54pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;II.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Conferencias-concierto&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="ListParagraph" style="margin-left: 54pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;III.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Exposiciones&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="ListParagraph" style="margin-left: 54pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;IV.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Publicación de libros&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="ListParagraph" style="margin-left: 54pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;V.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Archivo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="ListParagraph" style="margin-left: 54pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;VI.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Premios y Concursos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="ListParagraph" style="margin-left: 54pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;VII.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Espectáculos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="ListParagraph" style="margin-left: 54pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;VIII.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Presentaciones para niños&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="ListParagraph" style="margin-left: 54pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;IX.&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Social media&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="ListParagraph" style="margin-left: 54pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;I. Historia y listado de actividades:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Un poco de historia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;La Fundación VJR fue creada a finales de 1999, unos meses después del fallecimiento del famoso compositor. En un principio nació para albergar su Archivo y servir de plataforma documental a los actos de celebración del Centenario de la muerte de Joaquín Rodrigo que la Comisión gubernamental instituida a tal efecto organizó en 2001.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Entre los actos que patrocinó, coordinó o impulsó, en estrecha colaboración con la Fundación,&amp;nbsp;la Comisión Centenario Joaquín Rodrigo bajo la dirección de Áurea Roldán, destacan:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;La&amp;nbsp;producción de la&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;Exposición Centenario Joaquín Rodrigo&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;, una gran muestra itinerante que viajó por todo el país.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;La&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;Edición discográfica conmemorativa del Centenario de Joaquín Rodrigo&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="ListParagraph" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-L-pRwFTa5zA/TyJ11VAISQI/AAAAAAAAADA/OnHJkp0LgRI/s1600/img057.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="92" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-L-pRwFTa5zA/TyJ11VAISQI/AAAAAAAAADA/OnHJkp0LgRI/s400/img057.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;La reposición de la única&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;zarzuela&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;que compuso el autor, El Hijo Fingido&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-K3RJsP8_2qc/TyJ2ry2m0RI/AAAAAAAAADI/-wPQFUf7gF8/s1600/img058.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="246" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-K3RJsP8_2qc/TyJ2ry2m0RI/AAAAAAAAADI/-wPQFUf7gF8/s320/img058.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;La&amp;nbsp;constitución de un&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;Concurso Internacional&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;dedicado a la obra del compositor.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;El&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;Festival Rodrigo&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;ofrecido en&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;Los Ángeles en California (E.E.U.U.),&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;con la participación de la Orquesta&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Filarmónica de Los Ángeles, bajo la dirección de Miguel Harth-Bedoya.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sfclG42vIsc/TyJ4zQ6I5LI/AAAAAAAAADQ/DcaiCPbHwzY/s1600/1897.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sfclG42vIsc/TyJ4zQ6I5LI/AAAAAAAAADQ/DcaiCPbHwzY/s320/1897.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="236" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;El&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;concierto homenaje&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;a Joaquín Rodrigo en la sede de la&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;UNESCO&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;, en París&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xZwtQoB3QTU/TyKBsUAyAPI/AAAAAAAAADg/hYvaiVsAF2Y/s1600/1586.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="246" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xZwtQoB3QTU/TyKBsUAyAPI/AAAAAAAAADg/hYvaiVsAF2Y/s320/1586.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="320" /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kiJot-jnCFM/TyJ7a9qXzjI/AAAAAAAAADY/-paDLWYcrCg/s1600/1713.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kiJot-jnCFM/TyJ7a9qXzjI/AAAAAAAAADY/-paDLWYcrCg/s320/1713.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;La publicación de libros como&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;Iconografía de Joaquín Rodrigo&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;, de J. Suárez Pajares, o&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;El Arte de Joaquín Rodrigo&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;, de Antonio Gallego.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;La realización del documental&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;El siglo de Joaquín Rodrigo&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;, dirigido por Vicente Tamarit y producido por Diagonal Televisió.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Al margen de las actuaciones reseñadas, fueron muy numeroso los conciertos, exposiciones, seminarios, grabaciones, programas de radio, ballets, que con motivo de la celebración del Centenario del Nacimiento de Joaquín Rodrigo, tuvieron lugar en el mundo entero.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Actividades&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Aprovechando el impulso de las celebraciones del Centenario, la Fundación ha consolidado su actuación para responder a su objetivo fundamental: difundir la personalidad y la obra de Joaquín Rodrigo entre todos los públicos y fundamentalmente, entre los más jóvenes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Hoy en día, la labor de la Fundación se articula a través de una serie de programas :&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="ListParagraph" style="margin-left: 90pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Conferencias-concierto&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;a cargo de miembros de la Fundación y de intérpretes de renombre que ilustran musicalmente el acto.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Montaje de&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;exposiciones&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;mediante la aportación de documentos gráficos y el préstamo de objetos personales del compositor.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Publicación de libros&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;en torno a la figura y la obra del Maestro Rodrigo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Mantenimiento del extenso&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;Archivo&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;que contiene partituras y manuscritos musicales, correspondencia, escritos del compositor, prensa, programas, fotografías, discografía, audiovisuales y biblioteca personal de Rodrigo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Organización de concursos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;y entrega de&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;premios&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;a jóvenes intérpretes por su interpretación de la obra del compositor.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Producción de espectáculos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;en torno al Maestro y su obra.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Presentaciones en colegios&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;y demás centros educativos sobre la vida y obra del compositor.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Comunicación Social media&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;: Divulgación de la imagen de la Fundación y de la obra y figura del compositor a través de las redes y los medios de comunicación actuales.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #741b47; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #741b47; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #741b47; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;THE VICTORIA AND JOAQUIN RODRIGO'S FOUNDATION OPENS ITS DOORS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;The Victoria and Joaquín Rodrigo Foundation has decided to virtually open its doors so you can discover its activities and the wealth of documents in its Archive.&lt;br /&gt;We will reveal periodically the functions of the Foundation in the following areas:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I. &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; History and list of activities&lt;br /&gt;II. &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Conferences/concerts&lt;br /&gt;III. &amp;nbsp; Expositions&lt;br /&gt;IV. &amp;nbsp; Publication of books&lt;br /&gt;V. &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Archive&lt;br /&gt;VI. &amp;nbsp; Prizes and Competitions&lt;br /&gt;VII. &amp;nbsp;Performances&lt;br /&gt;VIII. Presentations for children&lt;br /&gt;IX. &amp;nbsp; Social media&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;I. History and list of activities:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #741b47; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;A bit of history&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times;"&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;The Victoria and Joaquín Rodrigo Foundation was established at the end of 1999, a few months after the death of the famous composer. It was initially created to house the Archive and serve as a documentary platform for all the events of the Centenary year of Joaquín Rodrigo’s birth, under the &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;National Commision that was named by the government for this task in 2001.&lt;br /&gt;Among the events the Joaquín Rodrigo Centenary Commission sponsored, coordinated or promoted in close collaboration with the Foundation, and under the direction of Áurea Roldán, we underline the following:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;The&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;Joaquín Rodrigo Centenary Exposition&lt;/b&gt;, a travelling exposition which was presented throughout the country.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;The launching of the commemorative&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;Joaquin Rodrigo Centenary CD collection&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;of Rodrigo’s works.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;Revival of a production of&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;El Hijo Fingido&lt;/i&gt;, Joaquín Rodrigo’s only&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;zarzuela&lt;/b&gt;. (photo)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;The founding of the&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;Joaquín Rodrigo International Competition&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;dedicated to the composer’s works.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;The&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;Rodrigo Festival&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;held in Los Angeles, California with the participation of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, under the conductor Miguel&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;Harth-Bedoya.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Concert in tribute&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;to Joaquín Rodrigo held at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;Publication of books such as the&amp;nbsp;&lt;b style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Iconography of Joaquín Rodrigo&lt;/b&gt;, by Javier Suárez-Pajares, or&amp;nbsp;&lt;b style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;El Arte de Joaquín Rodrigo&lt;/b&gt;, by Antonio Gallego.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;Filming of the documentary "&lt;b style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;El siglo de Joaquín Rodrigo"&lt;/b&gt;, directed by Vicente Tamarit and produced by Diagonal Televisió.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;In addition to the above mentioned projects, numerous concerts, expositions, seminars, recordings, radio programs, and ballets also took place throughout the world in honor of the Centenary Year of Rodrigo’s birth, including:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;"&gt;Activities&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;Benefitting from the momentum of the Centenary celebrations, the Foundation has consolidated its actions around its primary goal: to bring the figure and works of Joaquín Rodrigo closer to the general public and in particular to young people.&lt;br /&gt;At present, the Foundation is working through a series of programs:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times;"&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;b style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Conference/concerts&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;given by members of the Foundation together with well-known performers who provide musical illustrations for the event.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times;"&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;Setting up&amp;nbsp;&lt;b style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;expositions&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;which make use of graphic documents and personal objects of the composer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times;"&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;b style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Publication of books&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;on the figure and works of Maestro Rodrigo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times;"&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;Custody of the vast&amp;nbsp;&lt;b style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Archive&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;which contains Rodrigo’s scores, manuscripts of his works, correspondence, writings, press, programs, photos, recordings, audiovisuals and his personal library. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times;"&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;b style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Organization of competitions&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;and awarding of&amp;nbsp;&lt;b style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;prizes&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;to young musicians for their performance of the composer’s works.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times;"&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;b style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Productions&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;centered on the Maestro and his works.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times;"&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;b style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Presentations in schools&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;and educational centers on the life and works of Rodrigo.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times;"&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;b style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Social media:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;communication by promoting the &amp;nbsp;Foundation’s image &amp;nbsp;on the web.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; 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font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #28213a; line-height: 18px;"&gt;(Español/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #28213a; line-height: 18px;"&gt;English&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #28213a; line-height: 18px;"&gt;)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Wednesday&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #28213a;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;, February 1, 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Si bien es cierto que Joaquín Rodrigo es mundialmente conocido por su&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Concierto de Aranjuez&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;para guitarra y orquesta, no lo es menos el hecho de que tenga otras muchísimas obras de tanta calidad o más.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Joaquín Rodrigo tocaba el piano. Podría decirse que era un virtuoso de este instrumento para el que escribió, además de su&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Concierto con orquesta&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;, varias obras como el&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Preludio al Gallo Mañanero&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Sonada de Adiós&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;, en homenaje a su maestro Paul Dukas o sobre todo, para mí, las&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Sonatas de Castilla con Toccata a modo de pregón&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Igualmente en la música vocal hay auténticas joyas como el&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Cántico de la esposa&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;, obra que según el propio autor era la mejor, sus&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Villancicos&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;, los&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Cuatro Madrigales&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;amatorios&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;y así hasta un catálogo de más de 70 obras.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Pero yo quisiera hablar un poco de su obra violinística. El violín era un instrumento que él quería muy especialmente y que tocó al inicio de sus estudios musicales.&amp;nbsp;Solía decirme en broma que había llegado a tocar la&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Sonata Kreutzer&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;de Beethoven.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Su primera obra catalogada fue precisamente par violín y piano,&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;amp;view=item&amp;amp;id=11530%3Ados-esbozos&amp;amp;Itemid=123&amp;amp;lang=es" target="_blank"&gt;Dos esbozos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;, con subtítulos “&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;La enamorada junto al pequeño surtidor&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;” y “&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Pequeña Ronda&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;”. En esta pequeña obra se adivina ya lo que va a definir a Joaquín Rodrigo más tarde: su exquisito sentido de la melodía y ese humor chispeante, brillante, que encontraremos en su&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Sonata pimpante&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;para violín y piano.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Más tarde escribió una pequeña joya en miniatura: su&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;amp;view=item&amp;amp;id=627:can%C3%A7oneta&amp;amp;Itemid=48&amp;amp;lang=es" target="_blank"&gt;Cançoneta&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;para violín y orquesta de cuerda. Una melodía o&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;solo&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;de violín que no consta de más de 6 o 7 notas que son arropadas con una parte de la orquesta que pone en valor y ambienta ese&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;solo&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;de violín. Una pequeña ‘gran’ obra de 4 minutos: genial.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Hay otra obra,&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;amp;view=item&amp;amp;id=11531%3Arumaniana&amp;amp;Itemid=123&amp;amp;lang=es" target="_blank"&gt;Rumaniana&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;que escribió para su examen del Real Conservatorio de Madrid con un tema de “Hora” que le proporcionó su esposa Vicky. Lleva el sello ‘Joaquín Rodrigo’ pero es verdaderamente una obra de circunstancia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;El&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;“&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;amp;view=item&amp;amp;id=692%3Acapriccio&amp;amp;Itemid=60&amp;amp;lang=es" target="_blank"&gt;Capriccio&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;” para violín solo, escrito en homenaje a Sarasate, es de una gran dificultad violínistica, pero lleno de inspiración y con una escritura que, yo diría, aporta mucho a la técnica de este instrumento.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;El&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;amp;view=item&amp;amp;id=626:concierto-de-est%C3%ADo&amp;amp;Itemid=48&amp;amp;lang=es" target="_blank"&gt;Concierto de Estío&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;para violín y orquesta es una obra extraordinaria. Un primer movimiento que él me decía había escrito pensando en Vivaldi, autor que él apreciaba mucho. Después, uno de sus famosos “Adagios” con un precioso tema, con ritmo de Siciliana y unas variaciones que llega a mezclar con los temas del primer y segundo movimientos de una manera magistral para terminar con su cadencia “diabólica” pero muy violínistica y brillante para volver al tema inicial lleno de melancolía. El tercer movimiento, un tema único lleno de diabluras con el que parecía deleitarse, despierta&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;-lo puedo asegurar desde mi experiencia de intérprete en numerosísimas ocasiones- el entusiasmo del público. ¡Qué gran sentido del humor y qué alegría tenía este gran Maestro!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Yo le pedí a mi suegro (Joaquín Rodrigo) que me escribiese una&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Sonata&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;para cerrar su recital, muy virtuosa y brillante y ¡vaya si la escribió!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;amp;view=item&amp;amp;id=11532%3Asonata-pimpante&amp;amp;Itemid=123&amp;amp;lang=es" target="_blank"&gt;La Sonata“pimpante&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;”; cada vez más tocada en el mundo entero, es lo que su título evoca: brillante, alegre, salerosa. Solamente he encontrado dos palabras que para mi recogen el mismo signficado que la palabra ‘pimpante’: “En inglés, Sparking” y en francés, quizá “pétillante”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;También escribió para mí&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;amp;view=item&amp;amp;id=11533%3Aset-can%C3%A7ons-valencianes&amp;amp;Itemid=123&amp;amp;lang=es" target="_blank"&gt;Siete canciones valencianas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;, basadas en temas del Cancionero valenciano y con muchos contrastes entre ellas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4jAaf1ROFyk/TyjsFapsCSI/AAAAAAAAADw/lXkXYEwIZEw/s1600/1388.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4jAaf1ROFyk/TyjsFapsCSI/AAAAAAAAADw/lXkXYEwIZEw/s320/1388.jpg" width="285" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;En toda la música para violín de Joaquín Rodrigo se encuentran los rasgos más característicos de su personalidad en general y de su obra en particular: brillantez, “Luminosidad”, y melancolía, y desde luego, grandes dificultades técnicas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Estos breves comentarios a la música para violín y piano de Rodrigo quizá dejen entrever mi relación con el Maestro. No lo puedo negar. Mi admiración y cariño infinitos hacia esta figura universal de la Música son tan sinceros como reales.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;Agustín León Ara&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;Violinista, Maestro y miembro numerario de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando de Madrid&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Joaquín Rodrigo’s works for violin&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;While it is true that Joaquín Rodrigo is known throughout the world for his&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;Concierto de Aranjuez&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;for guitar and orchestra, it is no less true that &amp;nbsp;he has many other works of similar or greater quality.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;Rodrigo played the piano. It is fair to say that he was a virtuoso pianist and he composed for that instrument, in addition to his&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;Concierto para piano con orquesta&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;, various works such as&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;Preludio al Gallo Mañanero&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;Sonada de Adiós&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;, in tribute to his maestro Paul Dukas, and, above all in my opinion, the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;Sonatas de Castilla con Toccata a modo de pregón. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;Among his vocal works, there are also some true gems such as&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;Cántico de la esposa&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;, which the composer considered to be his best work, his&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;Villancicos&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;Cuatro madrigales amatorios&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;and on and on, with a catalogue of more than&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: red; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;70&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: red; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;works. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;I would like to speak about his violin works. The violin was an instrument that he especially loved and learned to play at the outset of his studies of music. He used to tell me jokingly that he got as far as playing Beethoven’s&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;Sonata Kreutzer&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;The first work in his catalogue was precisely for violin and piano,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;amp;view=item&amp;amp;id=11530%3Ados-esbozos&amp;amp;Itemid=123&amp;amp;lang=en" target="_blank"&gt;Dos esbozos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;(Two sketches), subtitled “&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;La enamorada junto al pequeño surtidor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;” (Young girl in love next to the small fountain), and “Pequeña Ronda” (Small round)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;In this short work there are clear signs of what will later be definitive of Joaquín Rodrigo: his exquisite sense of melody and that sparkle of humour which will shine later in his&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;Sonata pimpante&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;for violin and piano.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;Later he wrote a small jewel in miniature: his&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;amp;view=item&amp;amp;id=627%3Acan%C3%A7oneta&amp;amp;Itemid=48&amp;amp;lang=en" target="_blank"&gt;Cançoneta&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;for violin and string orchestra. A melody and a violin solo which consists of no more than 6 or 7 notes tenderly surrounded by part of the orchestra which serves to enhance and adds color to the violin solo. A short “masterpiece” 4 minutes long: brilliant.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;There is another work, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;amp;view=item&amp;amp;id=11531:rumaniana&amp;amp;Itemid=123&amp;amp;lang=en" target="_blank"&gt;Rumaniana&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;, which he wrote for his exam for the Royal Conservatory of Madrid on a theme of “Hora&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; display: inline !important; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;”&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;provided by his wife Vicky. It bears the unmistakable Rodrigo stamp although it is really a circumstantial piece. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;His&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;amp;view=item&amp;amp;id=692:capriccio&amp;amp;Itemid=60&amp;amp;lang=en" target="_blank"&gt;Capriccio&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;for solo violin, written in tribute to Sarasate, is extremely difficult to perform, but very inspired and scored, in my opinion, in a way that contributes greatly to the technique of the violin.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;The&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;amp;view=item&amp;amp;id=626%3Aconcierto-de-est%C3%ADo&amp;amp;Itemid=48&amp;amp;lang=en" target="_blank"&gt;Concierto de Estío&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;for violin and orchestra is an extraordinary work. He told me he wrote the first movement &amp;nbsp;thinking of Vivaldi, a composer he esteemed highly. Afterwards, there is one of his famous “Adagios” on a precious theme, with a ‘Siciliana’ rhythm and variations which he mixes with themes from the first and second movements in a masterly way that concludes with its “diabolical” cadence that is very suited to the violin and brilliant, coming back to the initial theme that is full of melancholy. The third movement, one sole theme full of devilish pranks in which he seemed to delight, awakens great enthusiasm in the public – something I have experienced in many of my performances. What a sense of humour and what high spirits characterized this great Maestro! &amp;nbsp;I asked my father-in-law (Joaquín Rodrigo) to write a&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;Sonata&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;for me to conclude his recital; something of a very virtuoso nature and brilliant. And did he write one!&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_2115107016"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;amp;view=item&amp;amp;id=11532%3Asonata-pimpante&amp;amp;Itemid=123&amp;amp;lang=en" target="_blank"&gt;La Sonata“pimpante”&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;increasingly performed throughout the world, is precisely what its title evokes: inspired, joyful, charming. I have only found two words which for me express the meaning of “pimpante”: In English, sparkling, and in French, perhaps “pétillante”. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;He also dedicated to me his&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;amp;view=item&amp;amp;id=11533:set-can%C3%A7ons-valencianes&amp;amp;Itemid=123&amp;amp;lang=en" target="_blank"&gt;Siete canciones valencianas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;, based on themes from the Valencian Cancionero, with many contrasts among them. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;In all of Joaquín Rodrigo’s violin music we find the most characteristic traits of his personality in general and of his works in particular: brilliant radiance and melancholy, and of course great technical difficulty. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;From these brief comments on Rodrigo’s violin and piano music you may guess what kind of relationship I had with the Maestro. I can not deny it. My infinite admiration and affection for this universal figure in the world of music are as sincere as they are real. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;Agustin León Ara&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;Violinist, Professor and &amp;nbsp;full member of the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts, in Madrid.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; 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font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #28213a; line-height: 18px;"&gt;(Español/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #28213a; line-height: 18px;"&gt;English&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #28213a; line-height: 18px;"&gt;)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Wednesday&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #28213a;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;,January 18, 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #28213a; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #161616;"&gt;La músicaespañola de orientación nacionalista, aquella a la que hay que entender que serefiere quien dice solamente “música española” –aunque me duela que así sea-,ha sido pródiga en música vocal de concierto, género en el cual, por cierto,encuentro no pocas de las joyas en mi opinión más valiosas y perdurables de eselegado musical.  Pues bien, en este campo de la música vocal nuestro JoaquínRodrigo no solamente ha aportado bellísimas páginas, sino que destaca entre suscolegas por el excelente criterio poético-literario que demostró en la elecciónde sus “letristas”. En un vistazo panorámico a los catálogos de loscompositores que viajaron en el mismo barco encontramos, naturalmente, laatención a la poesía popular, tendencia de la que es prototipo las&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;7Canciones populares españolas&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #161616;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;de Manuel de Falla; encontramos también esporádicaspresencias de nuestros poetas del ayer lejano –el Renacimiento, el Siglo de Oro…-,en recurrencias a menudo motivadas por conmemoraciones, aniversarios, etc. –denuevo un prototipo fallesco: el&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Soneto a Córdoba&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #161616;"&gt;-; pero, con demasiada frecuencia,encontramos canciones españolas que se apoyan en textos de escritores quedistan mucho de la excelsitud literaria, escogidos por motivos de amistadpersonal, por deudas de gratitud o por cualesquiera otras causas, entre las queno se debe descartar la cortedad del gusto poético del compositor. Ruego allector que supla él mismo la ausencia de ejemplos que dejo yo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #161616;"&gt;Pero éste nofue el caso de Joaquín Rodrigo. Su sensibilidad poética, nutrida y avivada porla permanente compañía de su esposa Victoria Khami, se tradujo en una aportaciónmúsico-vocal de muy especial enjundia artística. La propia Victoria, desdeluego, le surtió de textos originales, adaptaciones y traducciones de calidad,pero su nombre aparece en el catálogo salpicando, por aquí y por allá, una nóminade ilustrísimos escritores. Entre los clásicos de la historia literaria hispanafiguran Gil Vicente –el gran poeta luso, que se expresó en su lengua materna yen la española-, el Marqués de Santillana, Cervantes, Lope de Vega… y lossantos Francisco de Asís y Juan Yepes, o sea, San Juan de la Cruz. Entre losescritores modernos, el tino de Rodrigo es manifiesto: Josep Carner (adaptadopor Gerardo Diego), Unamuno, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Antonio Machado… La poesía delXIX, el siglo romántico, atrajo poco a nuestro músico, con la excepción delverso jugoso de Rosalía de Castro, y no es casualidad, sino un hecho de lamayor coherencia: los gustos literarios del maestro Rodrigo iban del remotoayer al hoy, saltando olímpicamente por encima del pasado próximo, exactamenteigual que cabe observar en sus propuestas musicales, que con frecuencia serefieren o rinden tributo a formas y sonoridades del Renacimiento y –en menormedida- del Barroco, y se vierten en un lenguaje inequívocamente “moderno”. Enefecto, el Rodrigo creador, de manera tan espontánea como categórica, renuncióa la herencia de las grandes formas y de la exaltada expresividad de los compositoresrománticos centroeuropeos. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #161616;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;José Luis García del Busto&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #161616;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #161616;"&gt;Crítico musical&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #161616; font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The poeticinsight of Maestro Rodrigo&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #161616; font-family: inherit;"&gt;Spanish musicof nationalist orientation, that which is understood to refer only to so-called“Spanish music”- much to my regret- has been rich in producing vocal concertrepertoire, a type of music, by the way, which ofers a number of the &amp;nbsp;gemsthat are in my opinion the most significant and enduring of that musicallegacy. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #161616;"&gt;In this fieldof vocal music, our Joaquín Rodrigo not only has contributed very beautifulpassages, but stands out among his colleagues for the excellent poetic andliterary criteria that he demonstrated in his choice of “lyricists”. &amp;nbsp;Ifwe take a broad look at the &amp;nbsp;catalogue of &amp;nbsp;composers who were hiscontemporaries, we find quite naturally their attention focused on popular folkpoetry, a prototype being the “&lt;i&gt;7 Canciones populares españolas&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #161616;"&gt;“ by Manuel de Falla. &amp;nbsp;We also findsporadic references to our poets from the distant past – the Renaissance, theGolden Century – &amp;nbsp;often motivated by commemorations, anniversaries, etc. -again a prototye from Falla, the “&lt;i&gt;Soneto a Córdoba”. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #161616;"&gt;However, all too frequently we findSpanish songs based on lyrics by writers who are far from being sublime literarybeacons, chosen for reasons of personal friendship, in gratitude for debts, orfor any other reason, not excluding the scant poetic tasts of the composer.Since I give no examples here, I request that the reader find some of his own. &amp;nbsp;However,this was not the case of Joaquín Rodrigo. &amp;nbsp;His &amp;nbsp;sensitivity topoetry, nourished and fueled by the permanent company of his wife VictoriaKamhi, materialized in a musical/vocal contribution of a singularly artisticessence. &amp;nbsp;It was indeed Victoria herself who provided him with originaltexts, adaptations and high quality translations, but her name appears in thecatalogue here and there together with a host of illustrious writers. &amp;nbsp;Amongthe classics of Hispanic literary tradition, &amp;nbsp;we find Gil Vicente, thegreat Portuguese poet, who wrote in his mother tongue and in Spanish, theMarquis of Santillana, Cervantes, Lope de Vega... and such saints as Francis ofAssisi and Juan Yepes, known as Saint John of the Cross. &amp;nbsp;Among modernwriters, Rodrigo’s skill was manifest: Josep Carner (adapted by Gerardo Diego),Unamuno, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Antonio Machado...The poetry of the 19th century,the Romantic era, did not attract our composer, with the exception of thecolorful verses of Rosalía de Castro, and this is not by chance, but due to thegreatest coherence: the literary tastes of Maestro Rodrigo went from theremotest times, taking an olympic leap over the recent past, in exactly thesame way that his musical proposals should be seen, which frequently refer toor pay tribute to the forms and sonorities of the Renaissance, and, to a lesserdegree, the Baroque, flowing into an unquestionably “modern” language. &amp;nbsp;Ineffect, Rodrigo the creator, in a way that is as spontaneous as it iscategorical, rejects the heritage of grand forms and exalted expressivity ofthe Central European Romantic composers.&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #161616;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;José Luis García del Busto&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #161616;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #161616; font-family: inherit;"&gt;Music critic&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8071484020014896257-4004270160013704384?l=fundacionjoaquinrodrigo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fundacionjoaquinrodrigo.blogspot.com/feeds/4004270160013704384/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://fundacionjoaquinrodrigo.blogspot.com/2012/01/el-tino-poetico-del-maestro-rodrigo.html#comment-form' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8071484020014896257/posts/default/4004270160013704384'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8071484020014896257/posts/default/4004270160013704384'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fundacionjoaquinrodrigo.blogspot.com/2012/01/el-tino-poetico-del-maestro-rodrigo.html' title='El tino poético del maestro Rodrigo'/><author><name>Fundación Joaquín Rodrigo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01478179703963513382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8071484020014896257.post-2389317143635291024</id><published>2011-12-19T07:54:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-27T18:33:18.137+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cántico de San Francisco de Asís'/><title type='text'>Joaquín Rodrigo - The Works of 1982 – Part IV</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"&gt;(English/Español) Monday,December&amp;nbsp;19, 2011&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;If the &lt;i&gt;Concertopara una fiesta&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB" style="text-align: justify;"&gt; is an “incontrovertibly Spanishwork”, in the composer’s own words, the final creation of 1982, the &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;amp;view=item&amp;amp;id=703:c%C3%A1ntico-de-san-francisco-de-as%C3%ADs&amp;amp;Itemid=67&amp;amp;lang=en" target="_blank"&gt;Cántico de San Francisco de Asís&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;, could not be moredifferent. Invited by the Franciscan Order in Spain to set St Francis’s‘Canticle of the Creatures’ to music, to mark the 800th anniversary of theSaint’s birth, Rodrigo responded to this commission with music of a quite newkind, in which ‘Spanish’ influence is notably absent.&amp;nbsp; The composer seems in fact to have wanted to create a workin the great European choral tradition, confessing that he found his task bothpleasant and easy: “I must say that it did not require too much effort from me– it was as though the Saint was inspiring me…&amp;nbsp; In this sublime poetry all nature is reflected, as I feelit.&amp;nbsp; It is evoked in all itssplendour, all its beauty, all its joy and all its sadness…&amp;nbsp; In the &lt;i&gt;Cántico de San Francisco&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB" style="text-align: justify;"&gt; I wanted to capture in my music those words of the Saint withsimplicity and with serenity.”&amp;nbsp; Itis indeed above all this feeling of serenity which the music captures – aserenity found not only in the words of St Francis themselves, but in Rodrigo’sown attitude to the wonders and mysteries described in the poem.&amp;nbsp; The music is punctuated throughout by aseries of silences – almost as though to aid contemplation – and each phrase ofthe poem is set to extraordinarily eloquent and appropriate music.&amp;nbsp; If the other works of 1982 each respondto the inspiration felt by the composer at the history and culture of aspectsof Spain and its great cities, or in the artistry of great artists who werevery special to him, the &lt;i&gt;Cántico&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB" style="text-align: justify;"&gt; reveals notonly Rodrigo’s mastery of choral and orchestral composition, and hisextraordinary sensitivity to the words which he set to music, but his ownbeliefs in the very nature of human life and its response to the wonders of theworld around us.&amp;nbsp; In 1969 he hadsaid to José María Gironella: “at times, composing music, I have had the sensethat all that is beautiful – and the spirit is this – is certain to survive”,and towards the end of his long life, this &lt;i&gt;Cántico de San Francisco de Asís&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB" style="text-align: justify;"&gt; was to give perhaps the most beautiful of all his testimonies to acontinuing adherence to that personal belief.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Joaquín Rodrigo – Las obras de 1982 – IV Parte&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Si el Concierto para una fiesta es una obra “incontestablemente española”, en palabras del propio compositor, la última creación de 1982, el&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;amp;view=item&amp;amp;id=703%3Ac%C3%A1ntico-de-san-francisco-de-as%C3%ADs&amp;amp;Itemid=67&amp;amp;lang=es" target="_blank"&gt;Cántico de San Franciscode Asís&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;, no podría ser más distinta. Invitado por la orden franciscana en España a poner música al ‘Cántico de las criaturas’ de San Francisco para conmemorar el 800º aniversario del nacimiento del Santo, Rodrigo respondió a este encargo con un música de estilo completamente nuevo, en la que desaparece cualquier influencia ‘española’. El compositor aparentemente quería crear una obra en la gran tradición coral europea, y confesó que había encontrado su tarea tan fácil como agradable: “puedo decir que no me costó demasiado esfuerzo, parecía que el Santo me inspiraba ... En estos versos sublimes se refleja toda la naturaleza, tal como la siento.&amp;nbsp; Está evocada con todo su esplendor, con toda su hermosura, con toda su alegría y su tristeza … En el&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Cántico de San Francisco&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&amp;nbsp;quise captar con mi música esos versos del Santo, con sencillez y serenidad.”&amp;nbsp; Es sobre todo este sentido de serenidad que expresa la música – una serenidad que se encuentra no sólo en las mismas palabras de San Francisco, sino también en la actitud de Rodrigo hacia las maravillas y los misterios descritos en el poema.&amp;nbsp; La música es interrumpida aquí y allá por toda la obra por momentos de silencio – casi como para ayudar a la contemplación – y a cada frase del poema el compositor ha puesto música apropiada y de una extraordinaria elocuencia. Si las otras obras de 1982 responden cada una a una inspiración experimentada por el compositor ante la historia y la cultura de aspectos de España y sus grandes ciudades, o ante el arte de grandes y muy queridos artistas, el&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Cántico&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&amp;nbsp;revela no sólo la maestría de Rodrigo en cuanto a composición coral y orquestal y su extraordinaria sensibilidad hacia los textos a los que ponía música, sino también sus propias creencias en la propia naturaleza de la vida humana y su respuesta a las maravillas del mundo. En 1969 el Maestro comentó a José María Gironella: “a menudo, componiendo música, he tenido la sensación de que todo lo bello – y el espíritu lo es – ha de perdurar”, y ya hacia el final de su larga vida, quizá este&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Cántico de San Francisco de Asís&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&amp;nbsp;fuera el mejor testimonio musical de esta creencia personal.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoTitle"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="p1"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Raymond Calcraft.&amp;nbsp;Ex Jefe del Departamento de Estudios Hispánicos de la Universidad de Éxeter.&amp;nbsp;Director de orquesta y de coro&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8071484020014896257-2389317143635291024?l=fundacionjoaquinrodrigo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fundacionjoaquinrodrigo.blogspot.com/feeds/2389317143635291024/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://fundacionjoaquinrodrigo.blogspot.com/2011/12/joaquin-rodrigo-works-of-1982-part-iv.html#comment-form' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8071484020014896257/posts/default/2389317143635291024'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8071484020014896257/posts/default/2389317143635291024'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fundacionjoaquinrodrigo.blogspot.com/2011/12/joaquin-rodrigo-works-of-1982-part-iv.html' title='Joaquín Rodrigo - The Works of 1982 – Part IV'/><author><name>Fundación Joaquín Rodrigo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01478179703963513382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8071484020014896257.post-2735279086667449099</id><published>2011-11-30T13:51:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2012-02-02T10:14:33.754+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gentilhombre'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Orquesta'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rodrigo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Adagio'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='guitarra'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='piano'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Aranjuez'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Guadarquivir'/><title type='text'>Joaquín Rodrigo - The Works of 1982 - PART III</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: left;"&gt;(&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: left;"&gt;English/Español) &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: left;"&gt;Wednesday,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: left;"&gt;November&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: left;"&gt;30&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: left;"&gt;, 2011&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Thenatural companion piece for Rodrigo’s&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;amp;view=item&amp;amp;id=638%3Aconcierto-de-aranjuez&amp;amp;Itemid=51&amp;amp;lang=en" style="text-align: left;"&gt;Conciertode Aranjuez&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: left;"&gt;hasalways&amp;nbsp;been considered to be the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;amp;view=item&amp;amp;id=637%3Afantas%C3%ADa-para-un-gentilhombre&amp;amp;Itemid=51&amp;amp;lang=en" style="text-align: left;"&gt;Fantasíapara un gentilhombre&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: left;"&gt;of 1954.But this work&amp;nbsp;is a suite based on melodies and dances by Gaspar Sanz, whereasthe last concerto&amp;nbsp;of all, the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;amp;view=item&amp;amp;id=634%3Aconcierto-para-una-fiesta&amp;amp;Itemid=51&amp;amp;lang=en" style="text-align: left;"&gt;Conciertopara una fiesta&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: left;"&gt;, is a return to the traditional three-movement&amp;nbsp;concertoform – as in Aranjuez and several other works by the composer –making&amp;nbsp;this late composition of particular interest. Rodrigo himself waswell aware that&amp;nbsp;comparisons with his first concerto would be made, inparticular with its famous&amp;nbsp;second movement, and was to comment, almostseverely: “It would be an error to&amp;nbsp;look for – or even, after forty years,to expect – another theme like ‘Aranjuez’.” The&amp;nbsp;two outer movements areinspired by two different cities of Spain and their cultures:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;in the first, Rodrigo speaks of a “very Valencian flavour… whichseems to evoke the&amp;nbsp;spirit of El Cid and the Moorish past ofValencia”,&amp;nbsp;while the third has a fiesta-like atmosphere (in keeping withthe work’s title), “with&amp;nbsp;a sevillana as its main theme.” As with the&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;amp;view=item&amp;amp;id=638%3Aconcierto-de-aranjuez&amp;amp;Itemid=51&amp;amp;lang=en"&gt;Conciertode Aranjuez&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;in its time,the&amp;nbsp;technical demands made by Rodrigo of his guitar soloist now reach newheights, as&amp;nbsp;its dedicatee, Pepe Romero, has affirmed. Both first and thirdmovements are based&amp;nbsp;on memorable themes, supported by brilliantorchestration, and are clearly designed&amp;nbsp;to demonstrate the skills of thesoloist. The second movement, however, is not only&amp;nbsp;the heart of the work,but a movement which naturally demands comparison with the&amp;nbsp;Adagio of theConcierto de Aranjuez. I believe in its symbolism and its depth of feeling itfully deserves such comparison. Here again are the composer’s words:“Its&amp;nbsp;basic source is rhythm rather than melody. Here there is none of therhythmic&amp;nbsp;serenity of the previous work… The result is a continuous,agitated, almost uneasy&amp;nbsp;wave-like motion throughout the movement.” Eventhough Rodrigo affirms that “this&amp;nbsp;movement is the antithesis of itsworld-famous counterpart”, the main theme is in&amp;nbsp;fact created from the samemelodic elements found in the Aranjuez Adagio, though now the “heart-beat”which underpinned the former work has become weakened&amp;nbsp;and unstable, makingthe music as much – or indeed even more - of a lament as its&amp;nbsp;famouspredecessor. The figuration and indeed the mood of this movement owes&amp;nbsp;muchto Rodrigo’s well-known piano piece Crepúsculo sobre el Guadalquivir,from&amp;nbsp;the&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;amp;view=item&amp;amp;id=647%3Acuatro-estampas-andaluzas&amp;amp;Itemid=53&amp;amp;lang=en"&gt;Cuatroestampas andaluzas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;of1946-52, and of course the river Guadalquivir itself flows towards that citywhich is the inspiration for the final movement of the&amp;nbsp;Concierto para unafiesta. As so often in the music of Rodrigo, place, time, mood&amp;nbsp;andsymbolism all combine here to extraordinary effect,&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;and with an eloquence only comparable to the Adagio of&amp;nbsp;the Concierto de Aranjuez.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: italic;"&gt;Raymond Calcraft. Ex Head of the Department of Hispanic Studies / University of Exeter. Choral and Orchestral Conductor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUYd34Y9P2w"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUYd34Y9P2w&lt;/a&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;JOAQUÍN RODRIGO – LAS OBRAS DE 1982 – IIIª PARTE&lt;/b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;La contrapartida natural del&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;amp;view=item&amp;amp;id=638%3Aconcierto-de-aranjuez&amp;amp;Itemid=51&amp;amp;lang=es"&gt;Conciertode Aranjuez&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;se ha consideradosiempre la&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;amp;view=item&amp;amp;id=637%3Afantas%C3%ADa-para-un-gentilhombre&amp;amp;Itemid=51&amp;amp;lang=es"&gt;Fantasíapara un gentilhombre&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;de 1954.Pero esta obra es una suite basada en&amp;nbsp;melodías y danzas de Gaspar Sanz,mientras que el último concierto de todos, el&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;amp;view=item&amp;amp;id=634%3Aconcierto-para-una-fiesta&amp;amp;Itemid=51&amp;amp;lang=es"&gt;Conciertopara una fiesta&lt;/a&gt;, supone un retorno a la forma tradicional del conciertoen&amp;nbsp;tres tiempos – como en el Aranjuez y otras obras del autor – lo quehace de esta&amp;nbsp;composición tardía una obra sumamente interesante. El mismoRodrigo sabía muy&amp;nbsp;bien que se harían comparaciones con su primerconcierto, y en particular con su&amp;nbsp;famoso segundo tiempo, y comentó, casisevero: “Sería un error buscar – o incluso,&amp;nbsp;transcurridos cuarenta años,esperar – otro tema ‘a lo Aranjuez’”. Los otros dos&amp;nbsp;tiempos estáninspirados en distintas ciudades de España y sus culturas: en elprimero,&amp;nbsp;Rodrigo habla de un “sabor muy valenciano… que parece evocar elespíritu del Cid y&amp;nbsp;el pasado moro de Valencia”, mientras que el tercerotiene un ambiente festivo&amp;nbsp;(siguiendo el mismo título del concierto), “conuna sevillana como tema principal”.&amp;nbsp;Como con el&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;amp;view=item&amp;amp;id=638%3Aconcierto-de-aranjuez&amp;amp;Itemid=51&amp;amp;lang=es"&gt;Conciertode Aranjuez&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;en su momento,las exigencias técnicas que exige&amp;nbsp;Rodrigo del solista alcanzan ahoranuevas alturas, como ha afirmado el propio&amp;nbsp;intérprete para quien fueescrito, Pepe Romero. Tanto el primer tiempo como el&amp;nbsp;tercero están basadosen temas memorables, apoyados sobre una orquestación&amp;nbsp;brillante, con laclara intención de hacer lucir las destrezas del solista. Elsegundo&amp;nbsp;tiempo, sin embargo, es no sólo el corazón de la obra, sino unacomposición que&amp;nbsp;naturalmente pide ser comparada con el Adagio delConcierto de Aranjuez. En su&amp;nbsp;simbolismo y en su hondura de expresión yo creoque bien merece tal comparación.&amp;nbsp;Aquí están otra vez las palabras delautor: “su fuente principal es el ritmo más que la melodía. Aquí, nada de laserenidad rítmica de la obra precedente... El resultado es&amp;nbsp;una olacontinua y agitada, casi inquieta, a través del movimiento...”Aunque&amp;nbsp;Rodrigo afirma: “este movimiento es la antítesis de sucontrapartida mundialmente&amp;nbsp;célebre”, el tema principal está fabricado enrealidad con los mismos elementos&amp;nbsp;melódicos que se encuentran en el Adagiodel Aranjuez, aunque ahora aquel “latido de corazón” que sostenía la obraanterior se ha vuelto más débil e inestable, haciendo&amp;nbsp;de la música unllanto – y quizá aún más desolado – como en su famoso predecesor.&amp;nbsp;Lafiguración e incluso el ambiente de este tiempo se deben mucho a la bienconocida&amp;nbsp;obra para piano de Rodrigo, Crepúsculo sobre el Guadalquivir, delas&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_939002296"&gt;Cuatro estampas&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;amp;view=item&amp;amp;id=647%3Acuatro-estampas-andaluzas&amp;amp;Itemid=53&amp;amp;lang=es"&gt;andaluzas&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;(1946-52). Y el mismo ríoGuadalquivir fluye, por supuesto, hacia aquella&amp;nbsp;ciudad que es lainspiración del tercer tiempo del Concierto para una fiesta. Como&amp;nbsp;ocurretan a menudo en la música de Rodrigo, lugar, tiempo, ambiente ysimbolismo,&amp;nbsp;todos se juntan aquí de una manera extraordinaria, y con unaelocuencia sólo&amp;nbsp;comparable con la del Adagio del Concierto de Aranjuez.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Raymond Calcraft.&amp;nbsp;Ex Jefe del Departamento de Estudios Hispánicos de la Universidad de Éxeter.&amp;nbsp;Director de orquesta y de coro&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8071484020014896257-2735279086667449099?l=fundacionjoaquinrodrigo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fundacionjoaquinrodrigo.blogspot.com/feeds/2735279086667449099/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://fundacionjoaquinrodrigo.blogspot.com/2011/11/joaquin-rodrigo-works-of-1982-part-iii.html#comment-form' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8071484020014896257/posts/default/2735279086667449099'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8071484020014896257/posts/default/2735279086667449099'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fundacionjoaquinrodrigo.blogspot.com/2011/11/joaquin-rodrigo-works-of-1982-part-iii.html' title='Joaquín Rodrigo - The Works of 1982 - PART III'/><author><name>Fundación Joaquín Rodrigo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01478179703963513382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8071484020014896257.post-7540236204372270103</id><published>2011-11-16T11:53:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-28T10:39:08.811+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='violín'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='flauta'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Orquesta'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rodrigo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='guitarra'/><title type='text'>Joaquín Rodrigo - The Works of 1982 –PART II</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;(&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;English/Español) &amp;nbsp;Wednesday,&amp;nbsp;November&amp;nbsp;16, 2011&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;The smallest of the compositions of 1982 is the &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;amp;view=item&amp;amp;id=11538:serenata-al-alba-del-d%C3%ADa&amp;amp;Itemid=129&amp;amp;lang=en" target="_blank"&gt;Serenata al alba del día&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, for flute&amp;nbsp;(or violin) and guitar. Its title evokes again another important source of inspiration&amp;nbsp;for Rodrigo, present throughout his career from his first songs onwards, the music&amp;nbsp;and texts of the famous Cancioneros of Spain’s Golden Age. The Serenata consists&amp;nbsp;of two short and contrasting movements, ‘Andante moderato’ and ‘Allegro’. The&amp;nbsp;first evokes the spirit of an ‘alborada’, with the flute’s lyrical melody underpinned&amp;nbsp;and frequently contrasted with surprising harmonies in the guitar accompaniment.&amp;nbsp;The ‘Allegro’, which follows immediately, has a more popular character, one rythmic&amp;nbsp;passage for the guitar calling to mind the opening of the third movement of Debussy’s&amp;nbsp;Iberia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;amp;view=item&amp;amp;id=612%3Apalillos-y-panderetas&amp;amp;Itemid=39&amp;amp;lang=en" target="_blank"&gt;Palillos y panderetas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, a work for chamber orchestra in three movements, is dedicated&amp;nbsp;to the city of Madrid, whose Council had commissioned it. Written in an obviously&amp;nbsp;more popular style than the other works discussed here, it consists of three short&amp;nbsp;movements with evocative titles: ‘Prado del Manzanares’, ‘Pastoral’, and ‘Alegre&amp;nbsp;mañana’. The first begins with bright fanfares, followed soon after by a notably&amp;nbsp;eloquent theme for the strings, regularly contrasted with flute, oboe and trumpet&amp;nbsp;pirouettes. The main theme of the ‘Pastoral’ movement has a somewhat mediaeval&amp;nbsp;air, always accompanied by the side-drum, while the third movement initially&amp;nbsp;brings to mind the joyful student atmosphere of the Concierto serenata for harp and&amp;nbsp;orchestra. Trumpet flourishes quickly lead us to a second theme of an undeniably&amp;nbsp;Sevillian flavour, and the work ends with the good humour which is so characteristic&amp;nbsp;of the composer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Raymond Calcraft. Ex Head of the Department of Hispanic Studies / University of Exeter. Choral and Orchestral Conductor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Joaquín Rodrigo – Las obras de 1982 – IIª PARTE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;La más pequeña de las composiciones de 1982 es la &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;amp;view=item&amp;amp;id=11538%3Aserenata-al-alba-del-d%C3%ADa&amp;amp;Itemid=129&amp;amp;lang=es" target="_blank"&gt;Serenata al alba del día&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, para&amp;nbsp;flauta (o violín) y guitarra. Si título evoca de nuevo otra fuente importante de&amp;nbsp;inspiración para Rodrigo, presente a lo largo de toda su carrera desde las primeras&amp;nbsp;canciones en adelante, a saber la música y los textos de los famosos Cancioneros del&amp;nbsp;siglo de oro. La Serenata consta de dos tiempos cortos, bien contrastados, ‘Andante&amp;nbsp;moderato’ y ‘Allegro’. El primero sugiere el espíritu de una ‘alborada’, con la&amp;nbsp;melodía lírica de la flauta sostenida y muchas veces contrastada con armonías&amp;nbsp;sorprendentes en el acompañamiento para guitarra. El ‘Allegro’, que lo sigue&amp;nbsp;inmediatamente, tiene un carácter más popular, un pasaje rítmico para la guitarra&amp;nbsp;trayendo a la memoria el principio del tercer tiempo de Iberia, de Debussy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;amp;view=item&amp;amp;id=612%3Apalillos-y-panderetas&amp;amp;Itemid=39&amp;amp;lang=esPalillo" target="_blank"&gt;Palillos y panderetas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, obra para orquesta de cámara en tres tiempos, está dedicada a&amp;nbsp;la ciudad de Madrid, y fue un encargo del Ayuntamiento al compositor. Escrita en&amp;nbsp;un estilo obviamente más popular que las otras obras aquí comentadas, consta de tres&amp;nbsp;cortos tiempos con títulos evocadores: ‘Prado del Manzanares’, ‘Pastoral’, y ‘Alegre&amp;nbsp;mañana’. El primero empieza con alegres fanfares, resolviéndose después en un&amp;nbsp;tema notablemente elocuente para las cuerdas, contrastado siempre con piruetas de&amp;nbsp;flautas, oboes y trompetas. El tema principal del ‘Pastoral’ tiene cierto aire medieval,&amp;nbsp;acompañado siempre por un tamboril, mientras que el tercer tiempo nos trae a la&amp;nbsp;memoria, al principio, el ambiente de alegría estudiantil del Concierto serenata&amp;nbsp;para arpa y orquesta. Floreos de trompetas nos llevan pronto a un segundo tema de&amp;nbsp;indudable sabor sevillano, y la obra concluye con el buen humor tan característico de&amp;nbsp;su autor.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Raymond Calcraft.&amp;nbsp;Ex Jefe del Departamento de Estudios Hispánicos de la Universidad de Éxeter.&amp;nbsp;Director de orquesta y de coro.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8071484020014896257-7540236204372270103?l=fundacionjoaquinrodrigo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fundacionjoaquinrodrigo.blogspot.com/feeds/7540236204372270103/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://fundacionjoaquinrodrigo.blogspot.com/2011/11/joaquin-rodrigo-works-of-1982-part-ii.html#comment-form' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8071484020014896257/posts/default/7540236204372270103'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8071484020014896257/posts/default/7540236204372270103'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fundacionjoaquinrodrigo.blogspot.com/2011/11/joaquin-rodrigo-works-of-1982-part-ii.html' title='Joaquín Rodrigo - The Works of 1982 –PART II'/><author><name>Fundación Joaquín Rodrigo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01478179703963513382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8071484020014896257.post-7543346073541260622</id><published>2011-11-02T13:18:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-27T23:51:26.133+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cançons'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='valencianes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Serenata'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rodrigo'/><title type='text'>Joaquín Rodrigo - The Works of 1982. Part I</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;(&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;English/Español) &amp;nbsp;Wednesday, November&amp;nbsp;2, 2011&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Throughout the history of music there are a number of examples of composers who created remarkable works in their last years. Three immediately come to mind: Claudio Monteverdi (L’incoronazione di Poppea), Giuseppe Verdi (Quattro pezzi sacri) and Ralph Vaughan Williams (the Eighth and Ninth Symphonies). To these we may add, I believe, the name of Joaquín Rodrigo, who in his eighty-first year, 1982, composed five significant works (three of them of outstanding quality). They are: Set &lt;a href="http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;amp;view=item&amp;amp;id=11533%3Aset-can%C3%A7ons-valencianes&amp;amp;Itemid=123&amp;amp;lang=en" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;i&gt;cançons valencianes&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a suite for violin and piano; &lt;a href="http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;amp;view=item&amp;amp;id=612%3Apalillos-y-panderetas&amp;amp;Itemid=39&amp;amp;lang=en" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Palillos y panderetas&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a short orchestral suite written in homage to Madrid; &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;amp;view=item&amp;amp;id=11538%3Aserenata-al-alba-del-d%C3%ADa&amp;amp;Itemid=129&amp;amp;lang=en" target="_blank"&gt;Serenata al alba del día&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, for flute or violin and guitar; &lt;a href="http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;amp;view=item&amp;amp;id=634%3Aconcierto-para-una-fiesta&amp;amp;Itemid=51&amp;amp;lang=en" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Concierto para una fiesta&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, for guitar and orchestra, the last of the composer’s eleven concertos; and &lt;a href="http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;amp;view=item&amp;amp;id=703%3Ac%C3%A1ntico-de-san-francisco-de-as%C3%ADs&amp;amp;Itemid=67&amp;amp;lang=en" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Cántico de San Francisco de Asís&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a large-scale work for chorus and orchestra.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;These works, for solo instruments, orchestra, and large choir and orchestra respectively, reveal Rodrigo’s undiminished energy as a composer, at a very advanced age, and his desire to return once more to musical forms which he had cultivated with notable success earlier in his career. It is also significant that each of the four responds to particularly personal sources of inspiration: a suite of pieces for his two favourite instruments, inspired by his native province of Valencia; the music and texts of the famous Cancioneros of Spain's Golden Age; a lyrical and light-hearted homage to Madrid, his adopted home; a guitar concerto (the last of his five for the instrument) which evokes both Valencia and Seville, past and present, and his own most famous work; and the largest of his creations for voices and orchestra, to words by one of the historical figures he most admired, St Francis of Assisi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;The seven short &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;amp;view=item&amp;amp;id=11533%3Aset-can%C3%A7ons-valencianes&amp;amp;Itemid=123&amp;amp;lang=en" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Cançons valencianes&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;, its title in the composer’s own Valencian language, reflects several influences, from Rodrigo’s first composition of all, also for violin and piano, La enamorada junto al pequeño surtidor (1923), to an echo of the main theme of the slow movement of the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;amp;view=item&amp;amp;id=634%3Aconcierto-para-una-fiesta&amp;amp;Itemid=51&amp;amp;lang=en" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Concierto para una fiesta&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;, composed in 1982. One can also hear a theme of recognisably Jewish inspiration, a brief homage to Bach, and of course several folk-song themes. There is music of considerable depth, as in the two ‘Andante moderato’ movements, and, especially the penultimate ‘Andante religioso’, with its evocation of mediaeval music and its mysterious harmonies. Although the Set&amp;nbsp;does not demand of its violin soloist the virtuosity of the composer’s &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;amp;view=item&amp;amp;id=11532%3Asonata-pimpante&amp;amp;Itemid=123&amp;amp;lang=en" target="_blank"&gt;Sonata pimpante&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt; of 1966, which is the other major work by Rodrigo for these instruments, (both works being written for Agustín León Ara), the 1982 composition is a fine work in its own right, a worthy companion-piece for its outstanding predecessor, and a piece in which Rodrigo’s undiminished lyrical gifts and imaginative harmonic sense are vividly displayed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Raymond Calcraft. Ex Head of the Department of Hispanic Studies / University of Exeter. Choral and Orchestral Conductor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Joaquín Rodrigo – Las obras de 1982. Parte I&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;A lo largo de la Historia de la Música hay varios ejemplos de compositores que crearon obras extraordinarias en sus últimos años. Se piensa inmediatamente en tres: Claudio Monteverdi (L’ incoronazione di Poppea), Giuseppe Verdi (Quattro pezzi sacri), y Ralph Vaughan Williams (las Sinfonías 8 y 9). A éstos creo que podemos añadir también el nombre de Joaquín Rodrigo, quien, a los ochenta y un años, en 1982, creó cinco obras notables (tres de ellas de una calidad extraordinaria). Son: Set &lt;a href="http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;amp;view=item&amp;amp;id=11533%3Aset-can%C3%A7ons-valencianes&amp;amp;Itemid=123&amp;amp;lang=es" target="_blank"&gt;cançons valencianes&lt;/a&gt;, para violín y piano; &lt;a href="http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;amp;view=item&amp;amp;id=612%3Apalillos-y-panderetas&amp;amp;Itemid=39&amp;amp;lang=es" target="_blank"&gt;Palillos y panderetas&lt;/a&gt;, una pequeña suite para orquesta, escrita en homenaje a Madrid; &lt;a href="http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;amp;view=item&amp;amp;id=11538%3Aserenata-al-alba-del-d%C3%ADa&amp;amp;Itemid=129&amp;amp;lang=es" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Serenata al alba del día&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, para flauta o violín y guitarra; &lt;a href="http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;amp;view=item&amp;amp;id=634%3Aconcierto-para-una-fiesta&amp;amp;Itemid=51&amp;amp;lang=es" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Concierto para una fiesta&lt;/i&gt;,&lt;/a&gt; para guitarra y orquesta, el último de los once conciertos del autor; y &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;amp;view=item&amp;amp;id=703%3Ac%C3%A1ntico-de-san-francisco-de-as%C3%ADs&amp;amp;Itemid=67&amp;amp;lang=es" target="_blank"&gt;Cántico de San Francisco de Asís&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, una obra de gran tamaño para coro y orquesta.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Estas obras, para instrumentos solistas, guitarra y orquesta, y gran coro y orquesta respectivamente, demuestran la energía que seguía conservando a una edad muy avanzada y su deseo de volver otra vez a formas musicales que había cultivado con gran éxito anteriormente en su carrera. Es también de notar que cada una de las cinco responde a distintas fuentes de inspiración personal: una suite de piezas para sus dos instrumentos predilectos, inspiradas en su provincia natal de Valencia; la música y los textos de los famosos Cancioneros del Siglo de Oro español; un homenaje lírico y alegre a Madrid, su ciudad adoptiva; un concierto para guitarra (el último de los cinco para dicho instrumento), que evoca Valencia y Sevilla, pasado y presente, y su más famosa composición; y la más grande de sus creaciones para voces y orquesta, sobre un texto de una de las figuras de la historia que más admiraba, San Francisco de Asís.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Las siete cortas &lt;a href="http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;amp;view=item&amp;amp;id=11533%3Aset-can%C3%A7ons-valencianes&amp;amp;Itemid=123&amp;amp;lang=es" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Cançons valencianes&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, título en la lengua valenciana del compositor, reflejan varias influencias, desde la primera obra de todas, también para violín y piano, La enamorada junto al pequeño surtidor (1923), hasta un eco del tema principal del Adagio del &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;amp;view=item&amp;amp;id=634%3Aconcierto-para-una-fiesta&amp;amp;Itemid=51&amp;amp;lang=es" target="_blank"&gt;Concierto para una fiesta&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;. Se puede oír aquí también un tema de clara inspiración judía, un breve homenaje a Bach, y por supuesto unos temas folclóricos. Hay música de clara hondura, como en los dos ‘Andante moderato’, y especialmente en el tiempo penúltimo, ‘Andante religioso’, con su evocación de una música medieval y armonías misteriosas. Aunque las Set cançons valencianes no exigen del violinista solista el virtuosismo de &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;amp;view=item&amp;amp;id=11532:sonata-pimpante&amp;amp;Itemid=123&amp;amp;lang=es" target="_blank"&gt;la Sonata pimpante&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; de 1966, la otra obra mayor de Rodrigo para estos instrumentos (ambas obras escritas para Agustín León Ara), es una pieza admirable en sí, digna compañera de su admirable predecesor, y una composición en la que se lucen vívidamente los dones líricos y el sentido armónico tan imaginativo de Joaquín Rodrigo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Raymond Calcraft.&amp;nbsp;Ex Jefe del Departamento de Estudios Hispánicos de la Universidad de Éxeter.&amp;nbsp;Director de orquesta y de coro&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8071484020014896257-7543346073541260622?l=fundacionjoaquinrodrigo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fundacionjoaquinrodrigo.blogspot.com/feeds/7543346073541260622/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://fundacionjoaquinrodrigo.blogspot.com/2011/11/englishespanol-joaquin-rodrigo-theworks.html#comment-form' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8071484020014896257/posts/default/7543346073541260622'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8071484020014896257/posts/default/7543346073541260622'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fundacionjoaquinrodrigo.blogspot.com/2011/11/englishespanol-joaquin-rodrigo-theworks.html' title='Joaquín Rodrigo - The Works of 1982. Part I'/><author><name>Fundación Joaquín Rodrigo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01478179703963513382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8071484020014896257.post-9190980174124112895</id><published>2011-10-18T23:39:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2012-01-27T16:47:31.798+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Musicología Complutense'/><title type='text'>Joaquín Rodrigo en la Universidad</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Hace unas semanas di mi primera clase en el nuevo Grado en Musicología que se comienza a impartir en la Universidad Complutense. Por fin la Musicología se estudia, no como una especialidad de segundo ciclo como se venía haciendo hasta ahora, sino como un Grado completo de cuatro años, similar al resto de titulaciones de la universidad española.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Era el 29 de septiembre, día de los arcángeles, y, como presentación de mi asignatura “Introducción a la Musicología”, quise repasar lo que había sido la docencia de la música en la Universidad Complutense. Pretendía, por una parte, ubicar a los estudiantes en el momento histórico en el que nos encontrábamos y, por otra, rendir un homenaje a una figura que me fascina y con la que yo mismo, por decirlo de alguna manera, he ido creciendo como musicólogo: Joaquín Rodrigo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Y es que Rodrigo fue el primer catedrático de música de la universidad española contemporánea –para no tener que remontarnos a los tiempos heroicos de la Universidad de Salamanca–, y el primer profesor de música de la Universidad Central de Madrid que luego sería Universidad Complutense. Sus clases comenzaron en el curso 1947-48 y, cinco años después, se le encomendó la Cátedra especial “Manuel de Falla”, creada por el Rector Pedro Laín Entralgo a instancias del Ministro de Educación Joaquín Ruiz-Giménez en mayo de 1952.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Como no quería que faltase música en mi primera lección en el Grado de Musicología, la ilustré con las dos composiciones de Joaquín Rodrigo más cercanas a su experiencia como profesor universitario: el primer movimiento, “Estudiantina”, de su &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Concierto serenata &lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;para arpa y orquesta compuesto en 1952, y &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Música para un códice salmantino &lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;de 1953, con textos de la “Oda a Salamanca” de Miguel de Unamuno. La “Estudiantina” refleja con una agudeza y gracia especiales el bullicio juvenil de la universidad, mientras que la &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Música para un códice salmantino &lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;muestra la trascendencia de la actividad universitaria en la transmisión del conocimiento con su canon inicial y la imploración final, “di tú que he sido”, que Rodrigo dejó para siempre suspendida en el tiempo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;En el curso 1974-75, el compositor impartió un curso de doctorado titulado “Joaquín Rodrigo y su música”, al año siguiente se jubiló y, en 1989, la Complutense le distinguió con su Medalla de Oro y el doctorado Honoris Causa. Ese mismo año comenzaba yo allí mis estudios de doctorado en Historia del Arte, porque no existía un doctorado en Musicología. A mí me gustaría que mi primer curso de doctorado en estos nuevos tiempos de la musicología universitaria tuviera el mismo título que aquel con el que Rodrigo se despidió de la Universidad: “Joaquín Rodrigo y su música”. Y, mientras yo siga siendo profesor en la Universidad Complutense, no dejaré de decir que &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;él fue&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt; el primero y procuraré que se perpetúe su memoria como uno de los músicos más grandes de nuestra historia. Es un compromiso tan firme como grato.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Javier Suárez-Pajares&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Universidad Complutense de Madrid&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Joaquín Rodrigo in the University&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;A few weeks ago I gave my first class in the Musicology degree which is now being offered at Madrid’s Complutense University. At last Musicology can be studied, not as a special branch in the second cycle as it has been until now, but as a complete four-year degree, similar to the rest of the majors in the Spanish university.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;It was September 29, day of the archangels, and to present my subject “Introduction to Musicology”, I decided to review the academic past of music studies at the Complutense University. My intention was, on one hand, to situate the students at this precise moment in history, and on the other hand, to pay tribute to a figure that fascinates me and with whom I have somehow grown as a musicologist: Joaquín Rodrigo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;The fact is that Rodrigo was the first Professor of Music in the contemporary Spanish university –without going back to the heroic era of the University of Salamanca–, and the first Professor of Music in the Central University of Madrid which would later be the Complutense University. His classes began in the academic year 1947-48 and, five years later, he was entrusted with the special “Manuel de Falla” chair, created by the university’s President Pedro Laín Entralgo, at the request of the Minister of Education, Joaquín Ruiz-Giménez, in May of 1952.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Since I wanted my first class in the Musicology degree to include music, I illustrated it with two of Joaquín Rodrigo’s compositions which are close to his experience as university Professor: the first movement “Estudiantina” of his &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Concierto serenata&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt; for harp and orchestra, composed in 1952, and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Música para un códice salmantino&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;, from 1953, on texts from Miguel de Unamuno’s “Oda a Salamanca”. The “Estudiantina” reflects with a particularly acute and witty gracefulness the bustling atmosphere of university youth, while &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Música para un códice salmantino&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt; shows the transcendence of university activity in imparting knowledge as reflected in the initial canon and the final entreaty “say that I too have lived”, which Rodrigo leaves forever suspended in time.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;In the academic year 1974-75, the composer gave a doctoral course entitled “Joaquín Rodrigo and his music”, the following year he retired, and in 1989, the Complutense distinguished him with its’ Gold Medal and awarded him its’ Honorary Doctorate. That same year I began my doctoral studies in History of Art, because a doctorate in Musicology was not yet offered at that time. I would like my first doctoral course in this new era of University Musicology to have the same title as the one with which Joaquín Rodrigo took leave of the University: “Joaquín Rodrigo and his music”. And as long as I am professsor at the Complutense University, I shall always declare that &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;he was &lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;the first one and I shall always try to perpetuate his memory as one of the greatest musicians in our history. It is a commitment as firm as it is gratifying.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Javier Suárez-Pajares&lt;/i&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Complutense University of Madrid&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8071484020014896257-9190980174124112895?l=fundacionjoaquinrodrigo.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fundacionjoaquinrodrigo.blogspot.com/feeds/9190980174124112895/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://fundacionjoaquinrodrigo.blogspot.com/2011/10/joaquin-rodrigo-en-la-universidad.html#comment-form' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8071484020014896257/posts/default/9190980174124112895'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8071484020014896257/posts/default/9190980174124112895'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fundacionjoaquinrodrigo.blogspot.com/2011/10/joaquin-rodrigo-en-la-universidad.html' title='Joaquín Rodrigo en la Universidad'/><author><name>Fundación Joaquín Rodrigo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01478179703963513382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
