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List Of Compositions By Leo Brouwer
{{Expand list, date=March 2017 This is a list of compositions by the Cuban composer and guitarist Leo Brouwer. Given the prominence of the instrument in Brouwer's oeuvre, his works for guitar solo, guitar ensembles, as well as guitar concertos, are all placed in a separate category. However, pieces which include guitar as part of a mixed ensemble, and ones for guitar and tape, are placed into the chamber music category. Works for guitar Solo guitar * 1955 ''Suite No. 1 Antigua'' * 1955 ''Suite No. 2'' * 1956 ''Preludio'' * 1957 ''Danza Característica "Quítate de la Acera"'' * 1956 ''Dos temas populares cubanos'' :* ''Canción de cuna'' (''Berceuse''), after ''Drume negrita'' by Emilio Grenet :* ''Ojos Brujos'', after a criolla by Gonzalo Roig * 1956 ''Piezas sin títulos I–II'' * 1956/2023 ''Sonatina Campestre'' * 1959 ''Fuga No. 1'' * 1959 ''Tres Apuntes'' * 1959 ''Three Pieces by J. S. Bach'', transcription * 1962 ''Dos aires populares cubanos'' :* ''Guajira criolla'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuba
Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba (largest island), Isla de la Juventud, and List of islands of Cuba, 4,195 islands, islets and cays surrounding the main island. It is located where the northern Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and Atlantic Ocean meet. Cuba is located east of the Yucatán Peninsula (Mexico), south of both Florida and the Bahamas, west of Hispaniola (Haiti/Dominican Republic), and north of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Havana is the largest city and capital. Cuba is the List of countries and dependencies by population, third-most populous country in the Caribbean after Haiti and the Dominican Republic, with about 10 million inhabitants. It is the largest country in the Caribbean by area. The territory that is now Cuba was inhabited as early as the 4th millennium BC, with the Guanahatabey and Taino, Taíno peoples inhabiting the area at the time of Spanish colonization of the Americas, Spanish colonization ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odair Assad
Odair Albornoz Rivas, known as Odair (born 15 October 1973) is a former Brazilian football player. He played 7 seasons and 174 games (scoring 18 goals) in the Primeira Liga for Braga, Penafiel and Belenenses. Club career He made his Primeira Liga debut for Braga Braga (; ) is a cities of Portugal, city and a Municipalities of Portugal, municipality, capital of the northwestern Portugal, Portuguese Braga (district), district of Braga and of the historical and cultural Minho Province. Braga Municipality ... on 30 August 1998 as a starter in a 2–0 victory against Farense. References 1973 births Living people Brazilian men's footballers Esporte Clube Democrata players Clube Atlético Mineiro players Cruzeiro Esporte Clube players S.C. Braga players Brazilian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Portugal Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Portugal Primeira Liga players C.F. Os Belenenses players F.C. Penafiel players Liga Portugal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Like Water For Chocolate (film)
''Like Water for Chocolate'' (Spanish: ''Como agua para chocolate'') is a 1992 Mexican romantic drama film in the style of magical realism based on the debut novel of the same name published in 1989 by Mexican novelist Laura Esquivel. It earned 10 Ariel Awards including the Best Picture, and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The film became the highest-grossing foreign-language film ever released in the United States at the time.. The film was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 65th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. Plot A woman named Tita living in the early 1900s experiences the struggles of love, family dynamics, and family tradition. A young lady cutting onions, expressing the influences of emotions and cooking, tells a story of the birth of a girl named Tita. Tita's mother, Elena, gives birth on the kitchen table, assisted by the cook, Nacha. Shortly afterwards, Elena's husband d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucía
''Lucía'' is a 1968 Cuban black-and-white drama film directed by Humberto Solás, and written by Solás, Julio García Espinosa and Nelson Rodríguez (film writer), Nelson Rodríguez. It was the winner of the Golden Prize and the Prix International Federation of Film Critics, FIPRESCI at the 6th Moscow International Film Festival in 1969. The film is a period piece, told in three stories in different moments of History of Cuba, Cuban history (the Cuban War of Independence, Cuban war of independence, the History of Cuba#Cuba in the early 20th century, 1930s during the regime of Gerardo Machado and the History of Cuba#Revolutionary Cuba, 1960s), all as seen through the eyes of a different woman, each named Lucía. ''Lucia'' was digitally restored by the Cineteca di Bologna with funding from World Cinema Project and Turner Classic Movies and later screened at the Cannes Classics section of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, 70th Cannes Film Festival in May 2017. The restored version als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitología De Las Aguas
''Mitología de las Aguas'', or ''Mythology of the waters'', is a composition for flute and guitar by the Cuban composer Leo Brouwer, written in 2009 for the German-Venezuelan guitarist and composer Sef Albertz. Brouwer defines this work as his first sonata for flute and guitar, and especially dedicated the work to Albertz, who played the world premiere in the German city of Leipzig on September 4 of that year, in the St. Peter, Leipzig, Peterskirche, as part of the closing concert of the International Festival "Con Guitarra" under the cultural patronage of the German Section of UNESCO. The total duration of this composition, divided into four movements, is approximately 25 minutes. Although Brouwer refuses to confine it to a mere description or imitation of nature, the music of this monumental "sonata" is a kind of musical cartography Latin America, with its most emblematic landscapes, characters and cultures. "The composition is a sort of sound film about the powerful elemental f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isaac Albéniz
Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual (; 29 May 1860 – 18 May 1909) was a Spanish virtuoso pianist, composer, and conductor. He is one of the foremost composers of the post-romantic era who also had a significant influence on his contemporaries and younger composers. He is best known for his piano works that incorporate Spanish folk music idioms and elements. his compositions, particularly those in his suite ''Iberia'' (1905–1908), are considered masterpieces and have influenced both classical music and Spanish nationalism in music. Isaac Albéniz was close to the Generation of '98. Transcriptions of many of his pieces, such as '' Asturias (Leyenda)'', ''Granada'', ''Sevilla'', '' Cadiz'', '' Córdoba'', '' Cataluña'', ''Mallorca'', and Tango in D, are important pieces for classical guitar, though he never composed for the guitar. Some of Albéniz's personal papers are held in the Library of Catalonia. Life Born in Camprodon, province of Girona, to Ánge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newman & Oltman Guitar Duo
The Newman & Oltman Guitar Duo (The Duo) is an American classical guitar ensemble formed in 1978. Known for adventurous programming and collaborations as well as their contributions to the repertoire of the guitar duo ensemble, the Duo was founded by Michael Newman and Laura Oltman, who have performed together since it was formed. Performances The Duo performs and records in many styles including Classical, Tango, Baroque, Spanish and Latin American. The Duo has performed throughout the United States, Asia, Europe, Canada, South America and the Caribbean in venues that include Carnegie Hall, the Queen Mary II and thGrand Canyon Music Festival The Duo has commissioned and performed many world premieres. Classical Guitar Magazine founder and author Maurice J. Summerfield, in his book, "The Classical Guitar: its Evolution, Players and Personalities Since 1800", credits Newman and Oltman with expanding the classical guitar repertoire. Notable collaborations include performances ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darius Milhaud
Darius Milhaud (, ; 4 September 1892 – 22 June 1974) was a French composer, conductor, and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—also known as ''The Group of Six''—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions are influenced by jazz and Brazilian music and make extensive use of polytonality. Milhaud is considered one of the key modernist composers.Reinhold Brinkmann & Christoph Wolff, ''Driven into Paradise: The Musical Migration from Nazi Germany to the United States'' (Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1999), 133. . He taught many future jazz and classical composers, including |
Keith Calmes
Keith Calmes (born March 1, 1966) is an American guitarist, educator, composer, and author. He has transcribed several works for Mel Bay Publications, including ''Guitar Music of the Sixteenth Century'' and ''The Eight Masterpieces of Alonso Mudarra.'' Doctor Calmes has earned degrees in Classical Guitar Performance from California State University, Northridge, the Juilliard School, and the University of Southern California. His performance credits include a Carnegie Hall recital debut, concerti with the Monmouth Symphony, a performance with Carlos Barbosa-Lima, and concerts with flautist Marjorie Koharski. Doctor Calmes has also performed at the Nicholas Roerich Museum in New York City, the chapel of the United Nations, conferences put on by the Fellowship of Quakers in the Arts, the American String Teachers Association, Asbury Lanes, the Pentagon, the EPA headquarters, the National Security Agency, Busch Gardens Williamsburg, and the Guitar Foundation of America. Keith has also o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
João Luiz Rezende
João is a given name of Portuguese origin. It is equivalent to the given name John. The diminutive is Joãozinho and the feminine is Joana. It is widespread in Portuguese-speaking countries. Notable people with the name are enumerated in the sections below. Kings * João I of Portugal * João II of Portugal * João III of Portugal * João IV of Portugal * João V of Portugal * João VI of Portugal * João I of Kongo, ruled 1470–1509 * João II of Lemba or João Manuel II of Kongo, ruled 1680–1716 * Dharmapala of Kotte, last King of the Kingdom of Kotte, reigned 1551–1597 Princes * João Manuel, Prince of Portugal (1537–1554), son of John III * Infante João, Duke of Beja (1842–1861) Arts and literature * João Borsch, Portuguese musician * João Bosco, Brazilian musician * João Cabral de Melo Neto, Brazilian poet and diplomat * João César Monteiro, Portuguese film director * Joao Constancia, Filipino singer, actor and dancer * João Donato, Brazilian musician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia Luque
Virginia Luque (born Violeta Mabel Domínguez; 4 October 1927 – 3 June 2014) was an Argentine tango singer and film actress. She made nearly 20 appearances in tango films of Argentina between 1943 and 1976. Born in Buenos Aires, she began her career in film in 1943 in ''La guerra la gano yo'', later appearing in ''Arriba el Telón o el Patio de la Morocha'' (1951). She starred alongside Arturo de Córdova in ''La Balandra Isabel llegó esta tarde'', a 1949 Venezuelan–Argentine film directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen, which entered into the 1951 Cannes Film Festival. Death Virginia Luque died on 3 June 2014 from natural causes in her native Buenos Aires, aged 86. Selected filmography * ''Back in the Seventies'' (1945) * ''The Yacht Isabel Arrived This Afternoon'' (1949) * ''Arriba el Telón o el Patio de la Morocha'' (1951) * ''Del cuplé al tango Del, or nabla, is an operator used in mathematics (particularly in vector calculus) as a vector differential operator, usuall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ricardo Gallén
Ricardo Jesús Gallén García (12 March 1972), is a Spanish classical guitarist who has been active since the mid-1990s. He is currently a professor of guitar at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar, Germany. Career Gallén was born in Linares, Jaén, Spain in 1972. He started playing classical guitar at the age of four, performing in public just a year later. At the age of ten, he entered the Conservatory of Music in Cordoba, receiving his first formal music education by the Conservatory's director and founder Tomás Villajos Soler. He continued his studies at the Conservatories of Jaén, Cordoba, Madrid and Granada, studying under Professors Victor Valls, Miguel Barberá (professor), Miguel Barberá, Demetrio Ballesteros and Carmelo Martinez and at the same time he attended a number of master classes both in Spain and abroad. He studied guitar and ancient music at the Universities of Mozarteum University of Salzburg and Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |