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The Spanish Hour in January 2021 features an episode on the music of Manuel de Falla

El AMOR BRUJO by Manuel de Falla (Manhattan School of Music)
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El AMOR BRUJO by Manuel de Falla (Manhattan School of Music)

The January 25th broadcast features music by Manuel de Falla for the theater.  We see a scene from his well known, El Amor Brujo (Love, the Magician).

1/4       Classics from Argentina, Chile, and Venezuela - 20th-century South American classics from Argentina’s Carlos Guastavino, Chile’s Juan Antonio Sánchez, and Venezuela’s Evencio Castellanos. 

1/11      Guitar Transcriptions of Piano Classics  A program of well-known Spanish keyboard and orchestral treasures transcribed for guitar and heard anew: Guitarist Jorge Caballero and the Brazilian Guitar Quartet in transcriptions of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Iberian-inspired orchestral work Capriccio Espagnole, Isaac Albéniz piano suite Chants d'Espagne, and more. 

1/18      Guitar Classics from Spain, Argentina, and Puerto Rico  Contemporary works for guitar from Argentina’s Quique Sinesi, Puerto Rico’s Ernesto Cordero, and Spain’s Joaquín Rodrigo, performed by Segovia, Villadangos, and Barbosa-Lima. 

1/25      Falla and the Theater  A sampling of Manuel de Falla’s music for works for the stage: El Amor Brujo (Love, the Magician,) and El Corregidor y la molinera (The Magistrate and the Miller’s Wife,) Falla’s “first draft” of El Sombrero de tres picos (The Three-cornered Hat.)