by Steven Blier | Apr 8, 2019 | Song of the Day
As I prepare for the April 24 concert, I have become increasingly immersed in the life and poetry of Federico García Lorca. The more I know about this great Spanish writer the more astonishing I find him. His neatly bound volumes of poetry and his famous stage works...
by Dorothy Potter Snyder | Mar 23, 2018 | Song of the Day
Friday has come at last! ¡Olé y olé! And with it my last blog post in this series, ‘Girl Got Duende’. What fun this gig this has been! It is appropriate that we end the week in Spain. I would not want to be the guy who tells Magdalena Montañéz Salazar,...
by Dorothy Potter Snyder | Mar 22, 2018 | Song of the Day
It is hard for me to think of a performer whose life and art covered more ground in a shorter time than Lupe Victoria Yolí Raymond, La yiyiyí, La Lupe, the Queen of Latin Soul. Let’s put it this way: when they retire a fairly common Hispanic name like Lupe in...
by Dorothy Potter Snyder | Mar 21, 2018 | Song of the Day
Chavela Vargas died in 2012, leaving the world without that voice that Pedro Almodóvar, who featured her in his film La flor de mi secreto (My secret’s flower), called la voz áspera de la ternura (the rough voice of tenderness). She was born in Costa Rica, where...
by Dorothy Potter Snyder | Mar 20, 2018 | Song of the Day
Fado is a sort of Portuguese blues that contains elements from traditional Cape Verdean music, and the songs nearly always mournfully contemplate lost love, death and the full range of dark emotions. The elegant Ana Moura is one of its primary exponents in the world...
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