Mark Swed publicรณ a principios de 2015 en Los รngeles Times, un artรญculo sobre las obras que se interpretaron el dรญa 5 de enero en la apertura de la ediciรณn 2015 de los Monday Evening Concerts en la Colburn Schoolโs Zipper Concert Hall.
La presencia de Ramรณn Lazkano en este ciclo de mรบsica contemporรกnea creado en 1939 (se trata de uno de los mรกs veteranos del mundo) ha sido apoyada por el Instituto Etxepare y Musikagileak (la Asociaciรณn Vasco-Navarra de Compositores).
Para una ocasiรณn tan especial se realizรณ el estreno en los USA de algunas de las obras que conforman la serie Igeltsoen Laborategia. En las que el compositor donostiarra toma como referencia e inspiraciรณn el โLaboratorio de tizasโ de artista vasco Jorge Oteiza.
Por lo que recoge el artรญculo de Mark Swed, estรก claro que ese lunes 5 de enero los amantes de la mรบsica contemporรกnea que asistieron a ese concierto inaugural de los Monday Evening Concerts 2015, recibieron lo que se corresponde a una fecha tan especial: un autรฉntico regalo de Reyes.
Los Angeles Times โ 6/1/2015 โ USA
An evening of sophisticated new Spanish music
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(Fotografรญa: Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)
From the time of its empire to well into the 20th century, Spain was a country so immediately recognizable by its music that eventually guitars and boleros became clichรฉs. But now, like much new music in much of the world, the Spanish style has assumed an international, cosmopolitan character. Perhaps this explains why we hear so few works from Spain outside Spain these days. But there is excellent, sophisticated new Spanish music, Spanish in ways that go beyond the clichรฉs, and Monday Evening Concerts began its 2014-15 season (finally), and the new year, at the Colburn Schoolโs Zipper Concert Hall with a program of Spanish works, most new to our country, from the last four decades. The big event was the U.S. premiere of Ramon Lazkanoโs โIgeltsoen Laborategiaโ (Laboratory of Chalks). A 46-year-old Basque composer, Lazkano found inspiration for a series of short cycles of chamber pieces written between 2005 and 2009 from small chalk sculptures by the late Basque artist, political activist and theorist Jorge Oteiza.
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Last Updated on Feb 24, 2015 by About Basque Country