Macey Center Fetes Piano Quartet plus Rhythm and Passion
<center><img src="http://steppinoutnewmexico.com/images/oterodanceco_1283-150x253.jpg" border=1><br><b><font face="Arial Narrow" size=3>Otero Dance plans to <br>heat up Socorro!</font></b></center><br><img src="http://steppinoutnewmexico.com/images/willesucre.jpg" align=right border=0 hspace=5>Socorro – On Monday November 10, NM Tech's Macey Center will host the Presidential Music Series performance of Piano Quartet by Joaquín Turina. The Presidential Music Series performances are sponsored by Tech President Dan Lopez, Socorro Springs Brew Pub, Howard Johnson's and Best Western Motel. Featured musicians for this performance will include features Violin, Cello, Piano Violists Willy Sucre and Mark Rush, Cellist James Holland and an unannounced pianist who might be drafted from the Capitol Bar on the night of the performance! :D
The Piano Quartet in E Flat Major, Op. 47, was composed by Spaniard Joaquín Turina Pérez, who was born in Sevilla, Spain, December 9, 1882. Turina grew up in an artistic environment and at age four was given an accordion, which he soon learned to play skillfully. In 1894 he started formal studies of harmony, theory, and counterpoint. Shortly thereafter Turina-Perez began to compose short pieces. His performance debut on March 14, 1897, eventually led him to become a full-fledged performer and composer. In 1902 he moved to Madrid, where he met Manuel de Falla and was influenced by the prevailing currents of musical nationalism. He soon got involved in the Madrid music scene and saw the premier of his Zarzuela, "La sulamita." In 1905, like many Spanish composers of the time, he moved to Paris where he studied piano with Moszkowsky and theory under Vicent d’Indy. He also became friends with Albeniz, who encouraged him to find inspiration in the popular music of Spain and Andalucía. After returning to Madrid in 1914, he divided his time between composing, teaching, and performing, despite the difficulties he and many others encountered during the days of the Spanish republic. Turina died on January 14, 1949, in Madrid.<br><br><br>November 21 at 7:30p.m. - Rhythm and Passion with Otero Dance Company
Later in the month on Friday, November 21, 2008 -- the weekend of the Festival of the Cranes, Macey Center will come alive with sexy salsa, sensual tango and explosive gaucho when the Otero Dance Company and PAS take Crane Festival visitors on a journey of the senses -- back to the golden age of the vibrant and sexy salsa -- to the roots of the traditional Argentine cowboys, the gauchos, and to the home of the sensual tango... Buenos Aires!
A vibrant cast of international artists will lure you back in time to the origins of the art forms, and inspire a celebration of the modern interpretations of the world’s most popular Latin dances. You’ll be seduced by the ecstasy of the tango, the vibrant sensuality of the salsa and the wild intensity of the gaucho.
PAS and the exceptional artists of Otero Dance Company invite you to experience a timeless world of music, song, color, rhythm and passion without ever leaving the Socorro city limits. Old Socorro my never be quite the same.
For more details about these shows, visit the PAS site at: www.NMTPas.org (http://www.NMTPas.org)
<center><img src="http://steppinoutnewmexico.com/images/oterodanceco_1283-150x253.jpg" border=1><br><b><font face="Arial Narrow" size=3>Otero Dance plans to <br>heat up Socorro!</font></b></center><br><img src="http://steppinoutnewmexico.com/images/willesucre.jpg" align=right border=0 hspace=5>Socorro – On Monday November 10, NM Tech's Macey Center will host the Presidential Music Series performance of Piano Quartet by Joaquín Turina. The Presidential Music Series performances are sponsored by Tech President Dan Lopez, Socorro Springs Brew Pub, Howard Johnson's and Best Western Motel. Featured musicians for this performance will include features Violin, Cello, Piano Violists Willy Sucre and Mark Rush, Cellist James Holland and an unannounced pianist who might be drafted from the Capitol Bar on the night of the performance! :D
The Piano Quartet in E Flat Major, Op. 47, was composed by Spaniard Joaquín Turina Pérez, who was born in Sevilla, Spain, December 9, 1882. Turina grew up in an artistic environment and at age four was given an accordion, which he soon learned to play skillfully. In 1894 he started formal studies of harmony, theory, and counterpoint. Shortly thereafter Turina-Perez began to compose short pieces. His performance debut on March 14, 1897, eventually led him to become a full-fledged performer and composer. In 1902 he moved to Madrid, where he met Manuel de Falla and was influenced by the prevailing currents of musical nationalism. He soon got involved in the Madrid music scene and saw the premier of his Zarzuela, "La sulamita." In 1905, like many Spanish composers of the time, he moved to Paris where he studied piano with Moszkowsky and theory under Vicent d’Indy. He also became friends with Albeniz, who encouraged him to find inspiration in the popular music of Spain and Andalucía. After returning to Madrid in 1914, he divided his time between composing, teaching, and performing, despite the difficulties he and many others encountered during the days of the Spanish republic. Turina died on January 14, 1949, in Madrid.<br><br><br>November 21 at 7:30p.m. - Rhythm and Passion with Otero Dance Company
Later in the month on Friday, November 21, 2008 -- the weekend of the Festival of the Cranes, Macey Center will come alive with sexy salsa, sensual tango and explosive gaucho when the Otero Dance Company and PAS take Crane Festival visitors on a journey of the senses -- back to the golden age of the vibrant and sexy salsa -- to the roots of the traditional Argentine cowboys, the gauchos, and to the home of the sensual tango... Buenos Aires!
A vibrant cast of international artists will lure you back in time to the origins of the art forms, and inspire a celebration of the modern interpretations of the world’s most popular Latin dances. You’ll be seduced by the ecstasy of the tango, the vibrant sensuality of the salsa and the wild intensity of the gaucho.
PAS and the exceptional artists of Otero Dance Company invite you to experience a timeless world of music, song, color, rhythm and passion without ever leaving the Socorro city limits. Old Socorro my never be quite the same.
For more details about these shows, visit the PAS site at: www.NMTPas.org (http://www.NMTPas.org)