AN AFTERNOON IN ANDALUSIA: With Michael McKay, pianist

Date:	Sunday, 18 July 2010
Time:	15:00 – 16:30
Location:	First Presbyterian Church
Street:	61 Picardy Place
City:	Winnipeg, MB

Spanish music for a sultry summer afternoon. This program consists of Manuel de Falla’s ballet suite El Amor Brujo (“Love, the Magician”) in the composer’s own arrangement for solo piano; and Ernesto Lecuona’s suite Andalucía, a series of six concert pieces celebrating southern Spain.

The price of admission is $10.00 and is payable at the door.

PROGRAM:

Manuel de Falla (1876-1946), El Amor Brujo ['Love, the Magician']

1. Introducción ['Introduction']
   Escena: En la cueva ['Scene: In the cave']
   Canción del amor dolido ['Song of suffering love']
2. El aparecido (El espectro) ['The apparition (the spectre)']
   Danza del terror ['Dance of terror']
3. El círculo mágico ['The magic circle']
4. A media noche: los sortilegios ['Midnight: the casting of lots']
5. Danza ritual del fuego ['Ritual fire dance']
6. Escena ['Scene']
   Canción del fuego fatuo ['Song of the will-o'-the-wisp']
7. Introducción ['Introduction']
   Pantomima ['Pantomime']
8. Danza del juego de amor ['Dance of the game of love']
   Final – Las campanas del amenecer ['Finale – The bells of dawn']

Ernesto Lecuona (1895-1963), Andalucía ['Andalusia']

1. Córdoba
2. Andalucía
3. Alhambra
4. Gitanerías
5. Guadalquivir
6. Malagueña