04 Friday Mar 2016
Posted in Home, Jazz, Latin Jazz, On Music
La colaboración del pianista cubano de jazz Gonzalo Rubalcaba y la cantaora flamenca española Esperanza Fernández junta a dos artistas de primera línea en sus respectivos géneros sin miedo de arriesgarse y explorer otros mundos musicales.
04 Friday Mar 2016
Program Notes for Vicente Amigo at Carnegie Hall
Friday, March 4, 2016 at 8 PM Isaac Stern Auditorium / Ronald O. Perelman Stage
Vicente Amigo, guitar
Antonio “Añil” Fernández, Second Guitar
Francisco “Paquito” González, Cajón
Ewen Vernal, Bass
Rafael de Utrera, Vocals
With Special Guest Antonio Molina “Choro,” Dancer
For all the spectacle of drama and virtuosity in flamenco — the flashes of movement and color by the dancers; the dazzling runs and powerful strumming on the guitar — at the beginning was the word.
While much of flamenco’s history is in dispute – including the origins of the word flamenco – many flamencologists agree that el cante, the singing, is the quintessential component of flamenco. (Perhaps, but not necessarily always, accompanied by palmas, clapping, or the tapping of knuckles on a table.)
The role of the guitar evolved from modest accompaniment in the earlier part of the 19th century to solo instrument a century later.
03 Thursday Mar 2016
Posted in Home, In Other Words
Juan Manuel Fernández Montoya, “Farruquito,”
This story was posted on Artburst Miami, in March , 2016
Juan Manuel Fernández Montoya, known as “Farruquito,” was born into one of the grand families of flamenco. His father was the late cantaor Juan Fernández Flores, “El Moreno;” his mother, the dancer Rosario Montoya, “La Farruca;” and his grandfather the legendary Antonio Montoya Flores, “El Farruco,” the founder of a flamenco school of dancing. He will be one of the headliners of the Arsht Center’s extensive Flamenco Festival this Thursday.
Farruquito, who will be 34 in August, was just eight years old when he presented his first show at a Madrid theater. At 11, he was part of a video about singer Camarón de la Isla. The following year he joined his grandfather in Flamenco, a film by Carlos Saura. He was growing up on stage, literally and figuratively, but in 1997, El Farruco died — and his childhood abruptly ended.
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