Apr 1, 2023 | Uncategorized @ca
Cervera already has the different spaces and equipment ready to accommodate, of the 30 March 8 d'abril, the 13th edition of the Easter Festival, Everything is ready for the 12th edition of the Easter Festival.
The first week of musical activity will begin, Thursday 30 March, with the traditional concert aimed at school audiences. This year, at the Gran Teatre de La Passion you can see the show "By the wayside”, by the company Eix Creatiu -born from the union of Fadunito and OA2 Produccions-. Hundreds of schoolchildren from La Segarra and other nearby counties will be able to see a large format assembly that talks about the excessive use of plastics and that has 17 artists on stage between musicians and actors.
The same show can be seen again on the same day at 20 hours, in a new function open to the rest of the public.
The opening concert of the Festival will take place on Saturday, 1 d'abril, also at 20 hours. As in all editions of the contest, will be the Julià Carbonell Orchestra the person in charge of this official opening. He will do it under the direction of Alfons Reverté and with the program "Music and Exile".
As explained by the artistic director of the Festival, Jordi Armengol, in "Catalonia of the 19th and 20th centuries, many musicians (and artists in general) they suffered exile due to political issues and commitment to their ideals. The first three composers we will hear in this concert are good examples of this". De Carnicer will perform his opening for the Barcelona premiere of the opera "The Barber of Seville"; of Pahissa we will discover the most interesting "Suite Intertonal" and Casals la sardana Sant Martí del Canigó. Besides, to close the concert the OJC will offer us the "Simfonia Esparsa" by Manuel Oltra, where his great intellect is revealed·compositional intelligence.
The next day, Sunday 2 d'abril, it will be the turn of Cor Madrigal. Choral music is, certainly, one of the basic pillars of the musical tradition in Catalonia. As Armengol explains, this concert "takes us on a journey that begins with two premieres by Joan Magrané and Albert Guinovart and ends a century ago with the modernism of Enric Morera". According to the Festival's artistic director, this is "a good opportunity to enjoy the extraordinary richness of our choral music".
The Cerverí competition also includes several side activities·leles. Catalan Classical Music Festival, we will be able to enjoy the exhibition"One hundred years of the Work of the Popular Songwriter of Catalonia”. The exhibition will open on Saturday 1 of April with a conference by its commissioner, James Ayats, them 17,30 hours at the Cervera Museum.
The Work of the Popular Songwriter of Catalonia, promoted by cultural patron Rafael Patxot, it is probably the collection project·most ambitious folklore lesson carried out in Catalan history. The main objective was to recover, study and return to the Catalan people their own musical corpus. The exhibition is a synthesis of the turbulent history of this great project: its genesis, characteristics and evolution, its breakdown at the outbreak of war and, finally, the recovery of the materials kept by the Patxot family.
A festival divided into two weeks of programming
The second week will start with the tasting concert also by Lluís Capdevila, with the presentation of his new album "Lament". The program will continue the following days with the tenor Roger Padullés and the pianist Francisco Poyato that will bring us "The songs of Pau Casals"; Roger Illa will interpret with a fortepiano the program "La música para tecla del XVIII and XIX Catalan. emigration, exile, duel and return"; Kebyart Ensemble will bring to Cervera "Memory"; Nexus Piano Duo the program "A piano and four hands"; he Athena Quartet “From Quito to St.. Petersburg passant per Barcelona”; i l’Catalan Baroque Orchestra will close the festival with "The splendor of the Catalan baroque".
The artistic director, Jordi Armengol, highlights that in this edition the Easter Festival will be commemorated on 50th anniversary of the death of Pau Casals i, while emphasizing the exile suffered by one of our most universal composers and performers, the contest will value the work of exiled or emigrated musicians of any era.
This way, two guiding threads will run through the programming of this year's Festival: the music and life of Pau Casals and the work of exiled or emigrated musicians of any era. In the repertoire of each concert, worked together with each of the performers, there will be at least one piece by the following thirteen composers: the Ramon Carnicer exiles, Francesc Andreví, Jaume Pahissa, Pau Casals, Montserrat Campmany, Baltasar Samper and Robert Gerhard and the emigrants Manuel and Josep Pla, Domènec Terradellas, Lluís Benejam, Narcís Bonet and Moisès Bertran.
The Festival is organized by the Paeria de Cervera and is a meeting point for the classical music sector in Catalonia and a showcase of classical music that is made in Catalonia. It has the support of the Department of Culture of the Generalitat through the ICEC and the Diputació de Lleida through the IEI.
Advance tickets on sale
All people who want to enjoy the 15 concerts scheduled in this year's contest, they can now purchase their seats through the web: festivalpasqua.cat.
As usual, early purchase is rewarded with several benefits. One of the most prominent is the discount of more than one 20% in its price, since of 18 euros for the evening concerts at the box office, is passed to 14 euros if you pay in advance via the web. Paral·lelament, tickets for the morning concerts can also be purchased in advance for only 6 euros.
Festival tickets are also on sale, so, those interested in attending more than one concert can choose to purchase a pass that will allow them to see all the concerts in the event for just 70 euros, which supposes a 40% discount. There are also specific tickets to enjoy the evening concerts for only 55 euros. The morning concerts also have their own ticket, which allows you to enjoy two different concerts for yourself 10 euros.
Catalan Classical Music Festival, the organization renews agreements with various entities and organizations such as the Carnet Jove, the TRESC Club and various media, others, to offer discounts among its subscribers. They also enjoy significant bonuses in col·"Appropa Cultura" class, the majors of 65 years and single-parent and/or large families. Remember that the different discount options (early entry or through these rebates with media entities or subscribers) they are not cumulative with each other.
Strong commitment to bringing Catalan classical music closer to the youngest
In this policy of making Catalan classical music accessible to all levels of society, the Easter Festival also wants to pay special attention to the youngest. For this reason, the evening concerts will have a price of only 6 euros for minors 18 years and of 2 euros in the case of morning concerts.
Information provided by the Easter Festival Press Service.
Apr 1, 2023 | Uncategorized @ca
The Paranimf of the University hosted, Sunday 26 March, the VII Percussion Meeting of Catalonia, in which a hundred students from different music schools and conservatories in the country participated.
The previous meeting had taken place on 2019 in Vic and it hadn't started again since the pandemic.
A hundred students from the Bellpuig music schools, Plugs, the Garrigues, Mollerussa, Tarrega, Viladecavalls and the music schools and conservatories of Cervera, Even, Manresa, Sabadell, Tarragona, Terrassa and Tortosa, alongside fifteen teachers they shared experiences, repertoires i the·excitement in a very intense day.
During the morning, body percussion workshops were held - by Sílvia García de Ves -, Percussion Circle - Pau Gimeno- and Kalimbes - by Robert Armengol.
And in the afternoon the meeting culminated with a concert at the Paranimf of the University of Cervera with a sample of the morning's workshops, as well as with the interpretation of two soundtracks specially arranged by Carles Gumí for this occasion.
Finally, the hundred students stand on stage to perform a body percussion show, exemplifying that the future of this instrumental specialty is more than assured.
We must thank the center's percussion teacher, Aleydis Serra, and to the faculty of the Conservatory for being able to organize an activity of such a volume as this, which also has an impact on beer establishments and helps to revitalize the city.
Information provided by Santi River (Cervera Conservatory).
Apr 1, 2023 | Uncategorized @ca
Last Saturday 25 of March took place, the Auditorium of the University, the XIX Meeting of guitarists from the Terres de Lleida, in which the students of the Cervera Music Conservatory participated.
Students from the Guissona Municipal School of Music also participated, of the Municipal Music School of Balaguer and the Municipal Music School of Mollerussa.
During the day there were rehearsals, a common lunch and the concert that culminated the day at the University's Paranimf.
In the concert, the guitarists of the Guissona Municipal School of Music could be heard with the Rondo de Clementi and the traditional Farruca. The students of the Municipal Music School of Balaguer offered some arrangements of Dance First the Trade i Penny Lane i Lucy in the Sky with Diamons de Lennon i McCartney. The Mollerussa students offered the concerto in major de Carulli and the guitarists from Cervera, under the direction of Xavier Gómez they will perform The brief life -Dansa n. 1- by Manuel de Falla i Billie John by Michael Jackson and arranged by Francisco Albert Ricote.
Finally, the Orchestra of the 19th Guitar Meeting, formed by all the guitarists, they went up on stage to perform together Gentle Morpheus, Son of night from G. F. Handel arranged by Andrew Forrest.
A pleasant meeting and another element of motivation for all guitar students and a point to meet boys and girls with the same desire to make music.
Information and image provided by Santi River (Cervera Conservatory).
Mar 25, 2023 | Uncategorized @ca
The 13th edition of the Easter Festival, that the next one starts 30 March, will have a strong Lleida accent, as it will recover works by several composers from the territory such as Ramon Carnicer, Francesc Andreví, Josep Teixidor and Manuel and Josep Pla.
Its artistic director, Jordi Armengol, has worked together with this year's artists to develop programs that include works by authors such as Ramon Carnicer, Francesc Andreví, Josep Teixidor and Manuel and Josep Pla.
From the Targaryen composer Ramon Carnicer we will be able to listen to two works, which will be performed by the Julià Carbonell Orchestra (who will perform the play "Peter and the Wolf"), on the one hand, i of the pianist, Roger Illa, for the other.
In the concert that will take place on April 1 with the OJC, we will be able to hear the overture that Carnicer wrote for Rossini's opera “The Barber of Seville”, a work that has a rather curious history. Carnicer was responsible for the opera program of the Teatre de la Santa Creu in Barcelona - in those days, the great rival of the Gran Teatre del Liceu- i l’any 1818 "The Barber of Seville" by Rossini was to be performed there. But a few weeks before, you could see "Elisabetta, queen of England” by Rossini himself and Carnicer realized that the Italian composer, probably to save work and time, had taken advantage of the opening of this opera to also use it for Barbero. It was then that Ramon Carnicer decided to write an overture to begin performances of "The Barber of Seville" in Barcelona. Eventually, this work became one of his most famous compositions and, even, Rossini himself gave his approval for it to be performed in place of his own overture.
It should be noted that Targaryen Ramon Carnicer was the most important opera composer in Spain in the first half of the 19th century. He studied at La Seu d’Urgell and Barcelona and worked in Maó and at the Teatre de la Santa Creu in Barcelona before going into exile in Paris and London between 1823 i 1826. In London he met the ambassador of Chile in that city, who commissioned him a hymn for his country, who is still the official today. Back to Catalonia, he was forced by Ferdinand VII to work in several opera houses in Madrid. Later, he was director of the Madrid Conservatory.
During the Festival, we will also be able to listen to the "Sonata for Key No. 6" as part of the concert that pianist Roger Illa will give us on the day 7 d'abril.
Another outstanding author from Lleida will be Francesc Andreví, native of Sanaüja, and that will also arrive from the hand of Roger Illa. Memory is a woman's name, one will be interpreted “Largo” for pianoforte which is preserved in the Historical Archive of Cervera.
Andreví was a very important composer of religious music and studied at the Seu d'Urgell (where he coincided with Ramon Carnicer) and Barcelona. He worked in the cathedrals of Tafalla, Tarragona, Sogorb, Saint Mary of the Sea, Valencia and Seville, and to the 'Royal Chapel' of Madrid. already exiled, was in the cathedral of Bordeaux (1839) and the 1846 a St. Pierre de Chaillot from Paris as organist. Back to Barcelona, he was chapel master at the Mercè Church.
Throughout Roger Illa's performance, we will also be able to listen to the work of another composer from the Lleida area. It is about Joseph Weaver, native of Seròs, from which we will listen to the "Sonata in D major". This organist and musical theorist was the first to publish a History of Music in Spain. He worked at the 'Capilla Real' in Madrid as an organist. Se'n conserves religious music, 6 string quartets and sonatas for keyboard.
Finally, the Easter Festival will also show the compositions of two brothers from Lleida: Manuel and Josep Pla, from Balaguer. an absolute premiere in co-production with the Pyrenees Early Music Festival, we will be able to listen to his works as part of the concert that the Catalan Baroque Orchestra will offer on the day 8 of April and with which this year's contest will close. We will hear his from Manuel Pla “Hi Queen” for bass and strings and by Josep the “Stabat Mater” for a soprano and strings, with the Catalan Baroque Orchestra, Maria Hinojosa and Pau Bordas.
The Festival is organized by the Paeria de Cervera and is a meeting point for the classical music sector in Catalonia and a showcase of classical music that is made in Catalonia. It has the support of the Department of Culture of the Generalitat through the ICEC and the Diputació de Lleida through the IEI.
Advance tickets for 15 concerts that have been scheduled this year are now available on the web festivalpasqua.cat and they have different discounts and bonuses.
Information and image provided by the Press Service of the Easter Festival.
Mar 22, 2023 | Uncategorized @ca
The chief paer, Joan Santacana, and the councilor for Culture, Mercè Carulla, have presented to the media the project that the Paeria de Cervera will present to the call for grants for the maintenance and rehabilitation of historical heritage with touristic uses from the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism.
The rehabilitation and enhancement of the castle and the southern walls of the town center for touristic and cultural use will materialize if the Paeria obtains the award of the grant. If the aid is approved, it is expected to be executed this year 2026, coinciding with the commemoration of Mil·lenary of Cervera.
It is an ambitious project with numerous performances in the castle grounds, on its perimeter and on the walls located to the south of the urban core.
Clearing actions will be carried out inside the enclosure, archaeological interventions, the consolidation of existing structures and the creation of a space for the reception of visitors. In this space, an immersive audiovisual will be projected on the historical context of the castle and virtual reality glasses will be made available to visitors, with which they can "enter" the castle and "see" how its inhabitants lived in the 11th century.
The spaces around the castle will be suitable with the passageway enabled·elevations and informative signage for tourist visits.
Regarding the actions planned outside, in the area attached to the southern walls, the construction of a new building should be highlighted, integrated into the environment and with views of the Ondara valley, as an area of various services for visitors.
It is proposed to be the starting point of tourist routes to the castle and the walls, that contains a space for cultural and educational activities, and a rest and refreshment area.
Besides, we want to adapt the path that connects the Pous portal with the castle as access for pedestrians.
All these interventions, that have a budget of 2,5 millions of euros, they will be integrated into the environment and will be done in accordance with the unique character of the building, cataloged as a Cultural Asset of National Interest (BCIN).
Cervera Castle
It is documented for the first time in the year 1026, when Countess Ermessenda de Carcassonne and her son Ramon Berenguer donated it to three families.
It was destroyed in the 19th century and today only vestiges of the plant remain, some walls and part of the facade, which was restored.
Mar 11, 2023 | Uncategorized @ca
The series of concerts organized by the Associació d'Amics de la Música de Cervera starts on Sunday 12 of March with the concert "Mendelssohn with eighteen years", by the Teixidor Quartet (Joan Espina and Joan Marsol, violins; Jordi Armengol, viola; and Xavier Roig, cello).
The group will offer a program made up of the Quartet number 5 in G major, by Josep Teixidor; the four (1998) of the composer born in Tàrrega, Ramon Andrew; and the Quartet in A minor, opus 13, by Felix Mendelssohn.
Joseph Weaver, born in Seròs, he wrote six string quartets that constitute an example of undoubted importance for studying the establishment and development of the genre in Spain at the end of the 18th century. He uses compositional procedures of the great masters of the time (Haydn, Boccherini, Brunetti), always looking for a language of its own.
Four, by Ramon Andreu Gene, it is conceived as a triptych, and it will be a good opportunity to learn about music that has been written in our lands.
Felix Mendelssohn's second quartet will close, which the German composer finished when he had 18 years, it is a good example of his compositional genius and his innate talent, as well as a deep knowledge of the works of his great predecessors: Haydn, Mozart i Beethoven.
The concert is on Sunday 12 March, them 19 hours, at the Municipal Auditorium.
Information and image provided by the Association of Friends of Music
