Aspect Chamber Music Series Presents: Spanish Impressions

Aspect Chamber Music Series welcomes Groupmuse community members back for yet another Night Out with beautiful music combined with an informational lecture by pianist and Professor of Music at Purchase College of New York, Stephen Buck (and complimentary wine)!

Here's what Aspect has to say about the program:
From El Greco to Gaudí, Spain has often produced cultural figures whose work seems extreme and eccentric. Its national identity was forged in the bitter struggle between Christian and Islamic forces in the later Middle Ages. In 1492 Christianity triumphed, in an extreme and radical form, but traces of Islamic and Jewish heritage remained in the DNA of Spanish cultural heritage, particularly as far as music was concerned. And from the Inquisition to the Civil War, Spain has seen more than its fair share of man’s inhumanity to man. Yet the work of artists such as Velázquez, Goya and Picasso, and writers such as Cervantes and Lorca, is notable for its humanity. After a long period of decline, culminating in 1898 in humiliating defeat at the hands of the United States and the loss of her colonial empire, Spain enjoyed a brilliant cultural renaissance that lasted until the outbreak of the Civil War in 1936. This programme, performed by the illustrious *Hermitage Piano Trio** will showcase some of the varied and brilliant music composed during that period.*

More information can be found on the Aspect CMS website.

What's the music?

Hermitage Piano Trio

Attendees

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Dennis L.

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