Museums and cultural centers come together once again to celebrate the White Night.
The City Council, the Provincial Council, The Ocean Race Museum, the University and Aguas de Alicante propose a wide program of activities that includes guided tours, family workshops, music, film screenings and lectures, for all tastes and ages, on July 21st.
The MACA, Las Cigarreras, the Exhibition Hall of the Fish Market (on behalf of the City Council), the MUBAG, the MARQ and the Alicante Cultural Institute Juan Gil Albert (on behalf of the Provincial Council), the University Museum, the Water Museum and The Ocean Race Museum, following the positive reception of previous editions, expect a large number of attendees during the evening of Friday the 21st.
The website is www.museosdealicante.com and you can find all the information about the programs of all the participating museums and cultural centers there.
The 'LaVidaenMúsica' fanzine of musical thought is a monthly online publication, directed by Sonia Megías and contains interviews, opinion articles, exploration of other arts, musical arrangements, musical improvisation tricks and music classes. This month of March, the person interviewed is Rosa María Castells, curator of the MACA.
The presentation on March 29th, celebrating the spring equinox, will feature the participation of the CoroDelantal MACA and members of the magazine's editorial team: Eva Guillamón, Orquídea Sánchez Azorín and Sonia Megías herself, who will get us all singing.
Action poetry trio formed by Bartolomé Ferrando, Laura Tejeda and Alain Goudard with the Corodelantal of the MACA directed by Sonia Megías.
ORPHEUS SONG-1970 . POETIC SYMPHONY FOR THREE VOICES AND CHORUS.
Action poetry trio formed by Bartolomé Ferrando, Laura Tejeda and Alain Goudard with the Corodelantal of the MACA directed by Sonia Megías.
In collaboration with: Consortium of Museums of the Valencian Generalitat
The Songs of Orpheus is a collection of visual poems of a musical nature, created by Elena Asins in 1970 on loose sheets of paper with a typewriter, forming beautiful drawings with letters, groupings of illegible sounds and words that construct phrases with a certain semantic sense and literary qualities, which allude to one of the oldest and most obscure episodes of Greek mythology: the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, traversed by love and death. It is one of the most important pieces in the history of Spanish experimental poetry and is being shown for the first time.
CoroDelantal MACA presents The Geometry of Strings with dancer Alicia Narejos
Alicia Narejos is a dancer from Murcia with a degree in Choreography from the María de Ávila Superior Conservatory of Dance. She has worked with the Antonio Ruz Company, Stocos Company and Otra Danza, among other independent choreographers. She won the First Prize at "Tiempo de Danza II" and as a choreographer she was awarded at Creajoven XIX. Her works are mainly collaborations with musicians, highlighting members of the Spanish National Orchestra and Choir, Neopercusión, Espai Barroc and Il Parnasso musicale. She is currently pursuing a Creation Grant at the prestigious "Residencia de Estudiantes" in Madrid, being the second one awarded to dance in the entire history of the residence.
The workshop will consist of an encounter between movement, sound and matter. A work of plasticity that will bring to the scale of human bodies the grilles, cradles and other geometries of the string figures by Eva Lootz. In what way will the patterns of play, their nature, and the string itself influence the voice and the body? It is the starting point of a research work between Alicia Narejos, Eva Lootz and Sonia Megías that is born at MACA and will continue to develop in places such as the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid.
Acts in commemoration of the victims of the Holocaust (for the liberation of the prisoners of Auschwitz on January 27, 1945) with the collaboration of Corodelantal MACA with the Sonia Megías Classroom of the Aire Libre School.
Acts coordinated by Julia Collado and Aquiles Rubio.
Interpretation of the arrangements of Soldats del plantà and Bígala, in Valencian.
Since humanity developed astronomical awareness, it has celebrated solstices and equinoxes with festivals full of all kinds of rituals. The Church would appropriate these dates, calling them Christmas, Saint John, Saint Joseph, or La Merced, but we must not forget their pagan origins. In this winter solstice concert, CoroDelantal MACA takes us into artistic worlds and rituals from which we will emerge transformed and with our listening heightened.
Do you dare to come as an audience member?
Concert performed by CoroDelantal MACA and soprano Laura Giménez as soloist, directed by Sonia Megías.
Since humanity developed astronomical awareness, it has celebrated solstices and equinoxes with festivals full of all kinds of rituals. The Church would appropriate these dates, calling them Christmas, Saint John, Saint Joseph, or La Merced, but we must not forget their pagan origins. In this winter solstice concert, CoroDelantal MACA takes us into artistic worlds and rituals from which we will emerge transformed and with our listening heightened.
Do you dare to come as an audience member?
Concert performed by CoroDelantal MACA and soprano Laura Giménez as soloist, directed by Sonia Megías.
The Udnámekam project. A magical history of music emerges as a consequence of the importance given to the necessary pedagogical work to be carried out with audiences that show reluctance toward contemporary art.
The show consists of a musical journey through a magical history of humanity and the music of the world, starting from the idea that neither time nor space exist, but rather are a fiction of the human mind in order to be able to understand and measure its reality. On this journey we will see how music develops from its birth, where music begins to be made without the existence of musical instruments, passing through its different evolutions until reaching current music that does nothing more than reconnect us with the beginning of everything.
Our audience will learn, always in a playful, stimulating way and interacting with the artists, the characteristics of music from different eras and places. This journey will have several stops where they will be able to experience the sensation of accompanying the artists with different rhythms, moving their bodies according to the proposed sounds, discovering how and who emits special sonorities, imagining the sound proposals in a drawing, or becoming a conductor and leading the artists in the interpretation of a musical piece.
By Lumina Ensemble, Sonia Megías and Eva Guillamón with images by Mitar Terzic. Within the 2022 public call for subsidies for the development of cultural and artistic projects by the Alicante City Council.
The Udnámekam project. A magical history of music emerges as a consequence of the importance given to the necessary pedagogical work to be carried out with audiences that show reluctance toward contemporary art.
The show consists of a musical journey through a magical history of humanity and the music of the world, starting from the idea that neither time nor space exist, but rather are a fiction of the human mind in order to be able to understand and measure its reality. On this journey we will see how music develops from its birth, where music begins to be made without the existence of musical instruments, passing through its different evolutions until reaching current music that does nothing more than reconnect us with the beginning of everything.
Our audience will learn, always in a playful, stimulating way and interacting with the artists, the characteristics of music from different eras and places. This journey will have several stops where they will be able to experience the sensation of accompanying the artists with different rhythms, moving their bodies according to the proposed sounds, discovering how and who emits special sonorities, imagining the sound proposals in a drawing, or becoming a conductor and leading the artists in the interpretation of a musical piece.
By Lumina Ensemble, Sonia Megías and Eva Guillamón with images by Mitar Terzic. Within the 2022 public call for subsidies for the development of cultural and artistic projects by the Alicante City Council.
This is an educational and outreach activity, coordinated by Carlos Izquierdo that consists of guided tours through the MACA and its immediate surroundings in which sound is the protagonist and attendees enjoy a formative and experiential experience. Through these sound walks, visitors will learn about the connection that exists between the museum's collection and activities with music and sound art, as well as the relationship that Eusebio Sempere had with composers Cristóbal Halffter, Tomás Marco and Luis de Pablo. AGES: All types of audiences. Minors accompanied by an adult. Note: Some sections of the visit involve some physical exercise, such as climbing stairs. Not suitable for people with vertigo.
Lumina Ensemble is the project of four saxophonists
passionate about their instrument and contemporary music, who belong
to two generations and who join efforts to achieve
high-level musical performances.
Lumina refers to the light that continuously permeates
our land. Light that determines our open and
tolerant character, and that proposes the union of people who converge in a
common project. Light as an analogy of our way of understanding
musical performance in its infinite forms, with proposals
committed to contemporary music. Essential therefore to achieve
this goal, is the collaboration with composers and the premiere of works
written or transcribed for this group.
This concert serves to present Lumina to the
public, although it should be noted that its members
have significant artistic and professional experience that has
led them to perform in numerous concert halls, festivals and concert
series.
Lumina Ensemble is a flexible group that is based on
saxophonists Pablo de la Fuente, Javier Carrillos, Isaac Verdú
and José A. Suay. In this event it also includes
Óscar Martí (percussion) and Mercedes Lozano (organ).
Jesús Torres: (1965 - Zaragoza). He completed his academic training at the Royal Superior Conservatory of Music in Madrid.
In parallel, he takes various courses in Musical Analysis with
Luis de Pablo. Between 1986 and 1988 he studies composition with Francisco Guerrero. He has been awarded various prizes: SGAE (Madrid 1992), Gaudeamus Prize (Amsterdam 1995), Valentino Bucchi (Rome 1997), Queen Sofía (Barcelona 1999), Millennium Chamber Players (Chicago 2008) and the National Music Prize 2012. He was appointed resident composer of the CNDM (National Center for Musical Dissemination) for the 2017/2018 Season. Since the 2019/2020 Season he was appointed resident composer of the Zaragoza City Symphony Orchestra.
His first opera, Tránsito, based on the homonymous play by
Max Aub, premiered in May 2021 at the Naves del Español
in Madrid, commissioned by the Royal Theater, in co-production with the Spanish
Theater. His catalog consists of more than 130 compositions, with
orchestral and chamber pieces of very different
instrumental formations. His music has been performed in festivals and
This is an educational and outreach activity, coordinated by Carlos Izquierdo that consists of guided tours through the MACA and its surrounding area in which sound is the protagonist and participants enjoy a formative and experiential experience.
Through these sound walks, visitors will discover the connection that exists between the museum's collection and activities with music and sound art, as well as the relationship that Eusebio Sempere had with composers Cristóbal Halffter, Tomás Marco and Luis de Pablo.
AGES: All types of audiences. Minors accompanied by an adult.
