In the Footsteps of Gustavo Durán
For this concert, Jonatan Alvadaro (vocals) joins Galician guitarist and researcher Samuel Diz, a leading expert on the music of the Spanish Civil War and exile. Together they will bring to life three songbooks that Durán compiled between 1944 and 1963; a collection of songs that he played and sang in his many homes across the Americas, drawn from an astonishing range of sources, ranging from 12th-century Spanish court melodies to modern Peruvian yaravís. Come and enjoy an evening of music as exceptional as Durán himself!
In the Footsteps of Gustavo Durán
The Songbooks of a 20th-Century Renaissance Man
Gustavo Durán is one of the most enigmatic figures of the past century. Born in Barcelona in 1906, he trained as a pianist, composer and early ethnomusicologist, moving in the circles of Lorca, Dalí and Buñuel at the Residencia de Estudiantes. During the Spanish Civil War he served as a lieutenant colonel in the Republican army, before exile forced him to leave Spain in 1939, never to return. His remarkable journey led him to plot against Juan Domingo Perón, meet Hemingway, become a target of McCarthy, and carry drinking water to a small Greek village, where he is buried as a local hero.
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