Love, passion and the insatiable feeling of longing - a musical and literary evening with songs and texts from Spain and Latin America
The musical and literary worlds of Spain and Latin America have a special effect on people in our latitudes. Ludwig van Beethoven, for example, set his only opera Fidelio in warm Seville. The composer Hugo Wolf wrote his Spanish Songbook with compositions of Spanish poetry from the Spanish Golden Age. Heinz Hollinger composes the Valeria Lieder, based on texts from the comedy Ponce de Leon by Clemens von Brentano, which is also set in Seville. And Igor Stravinsky sets a tango to music, alluding to the Argentinian music of the 1930s. Many songs and texts from Spain and Latin America deal with love, passion, jealousy and the insatiable feeling of longing. With selected pieces from different eras, we go on a musical-literary journey, carried by singing, classical guitar and selected texts, to let ourselves be touched by the artistic world of thought of Spain and Latin America.
Performers:
Timea Cecilia Kunkel, state-certified singing teacher, concert singer
Karl Brandenstein, guitarist and music teacher, M.A. History/Literature
Admission free - a hat donation is requested.
The musical and literary worlds of Spain and Latin America have a special effect on people in our latitudes. Ludwig van Beethoven, for example, set his only opera Fidelio in warm Seville. The composer Hugo Wolf wrote his Spanish Songbook with compositions of Spanish poetry from the Spanish Golden Age. Heinz Hollinger composes the Valeria Lieder, based on texts from the comedy Ponce de Leon by Clemens von Brentano, which is also set in Seville. And Igor Stravinsky sets a tango to music, alluding to the Argentinian music of the 1930s. Many songs and texts from Spain and Latin America deal with love, passion, jealousy and the insatiable feeling of longing. With selected pieces from different eras, we go on a musical-literary journey, carried by singing, classical guitar and selected texts, to let ourselves be touched by the artistic world of thought of Spain and Latin America.
Performers:
Timea Cecilia Kunkel, state-certified singing teacher, concert singer
Karl Brandenstein, guitarist and music teacher, M.A. History/Literature
Admission free - a hat donation is requested.