It tells you something about the low international profile of Spanish music that the pieces we most associate with the country... Bizet’s Carmen and Ravel’s Bolero... were composed by Frenchmen. Grover Wilkins and his Dallas-based Orchestra of New Spain are working to change that situation. - Scott Cantrell, Dallas Morning News
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DID YOU KNOW...
The orchestra gets its name from the present area of Texas and Mexico which was originally called New Spain by the Spanish explorers. We seek to present music from 'Old' Spain in the land of New Spain.
Pegasus Musical Society
Dallas / Madrid / Paris
email info@orchestraofnewspain.org
POB 600227 Dallas, Texas 75360-0227
tel 214-750-1492
fax 214-750-1492 (on demand)
Madrid Barroco
Pº General Martínez Campos, 24 Bis
28010 Madrid SPAIN
Tel 34/91-702-7000, ext 222
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SUMMER CONCERT II - Breaking the Mold: Paris 1917
Thursday, July 9, 2009
6:00 pm: Subscribers and Museum Members reception
7:00 pm: Story time and Concert
Individual Tickets $25, Meadows Museum Members $20, students $10
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Following up on last year’s most successful summer concert, the Orchestra of New Spain returns to the Meadows Museum on Thursday, July 9, to partner with the Museum on its just-opening exhibit, Diego Rivera: the Cubist Portraits, 1913-1917. Join us for a concert of this iconic work of Igor Stravinsky, The Soldier’s Tale (1918), a classic story of the wiles of the Devil, our susceptibility to his wiles, and our fight to liberate ourselves from them.
Just as the cubists deconstructed the historic narrative role of painting by exploring the many forms that make up visual art, Igor Stravinsky saw past the obligatory steadiness of fixed meter, to break musical expression down into the changing pulsations of real life.
Join Grover for his explanation of the processes that fed these changes, the 7-member band that will play this charming early work of Stravinsky, and our small ensemble of narrators who will take us on the Soldier’s journey with the Devil.
All in the context of the Cubist Portraits of Diego Rivera, In the beautiful setting of the Meadows Museum.
We are still finalizing dates and locations for next season, however, Subscription Packages are available for purchase NOW!
LISTEN TO THIS!
Please take a moment to listen to an mp3 of Grover Wilkins' interview discussing the much anticipated premieres of Francisco Courcelle’s The Italian Vespers and José de Nebra’s 1750 Miserere with Quin Mathews on Arts Matters, a radio program WRR 101.1 fm about arts in North Texas. (click Grover's name above to listen to the audio.)
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