Friday, March 25, 2011
7:00 pm
Americas Society
680 Park Avenue
New York, NY
Cover of Dos Valses.
El Cojo Ilustrado was a Venezuelan periodical published from 1892 to 1915. It showcased a variety of materials, from poetry to music scores to the detailed illustrations that lent the magazine its name. Award-winning Venezuelan pianist and Professor Mariantonia Palacios has studied the rich heritage of scores available from El Cojo Ilustrado and performed on the album “Music in the Time of El Cojo Ilustrado,” based on joint research by Palacios and her colleague Professor Hugo Quintana at the Universidad Central de Venezuela.
In this special presentation, which complements “Three Contemporary Venezuelan Voices,” Palacios will perform a selection of waltzes, mazurkas, danzas, and polkas from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century by Venezuelan composers including Pedro Larrazábal, Ramón Delgado Palacios, Pedro Elías Gutiérrez and others whose music appeared in publications such as La Lira Venezolana, El Zancudo, and El Cojo Ilustrado, today considered valuable repositories of musical scores from the time. The pianist will discuss the pieces as well as the phenomenon of musical publication in Venezuelan periodicals, concluding with an analysis of Gutiérrez’s “El Album del Centenario” on the occasion of its, and Venezuela’s, bicentennial this year.
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Discussion and Reading: Contemporary Venezuelan Voices
Thursday, March 24, 2011
7:00 p.m.
Americas Society
680 Park Avenue
New York, NY
L to R: Israel Centeno (courtesy of the author), Lyda Aponte de Zacklin (courtesy of the author), Rodrigo Calderón Blanco (courtesy of Salvador Flejan), María Ramírez Delgado (courtesy of Manuel Sarda).
Three writers representing various generations will speak about currents in their work and in Venezuela’s literary canon. Rodrigo Blanco Calderón is author of Una larga fila de hombres (2006; Premio Monte Avila de Narrativa para autores inéditos). María Ramírez Delgado is a poet of the current generation who has published Navajas sobre la mesa (2009) and other collections. Israel Centeno was the runner-up for the Premio Planeta-Casa de América award in 2009 for his novel, Bajo las hojas. Lyda Aponte de Zacklin, a Venezuelan literary critic (CUNY), will moderate. The March 25 music program will be presented by the Department of Music. Both events are co-presented by CWS Events, Creative Writing in Spanish Program, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, New York University. With the collaboration of InterAmericas®.
The program will be conducted in Spanish.
El Orinoco y su escritura
The Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies at NYU
presents
“Biblioteca Ayacucho, modelo de pensamiento e integración”
&
“El Orinoco y su escritura”
*Both conference presentations will be in Spanish*
Wednesday, April 26th
6 to 8 pm
King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center
53 Washington Square South
ROOM 324
PROGRAM
6:00 Welcoming Remarks
George Yúdice, Director, Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, New York University
6:30 Biblioteca Ayacucho, modelo de pensamiento e integración
Humberto Mata, President, La Fundación Biblioteca Ayacucho
En 1974 y capitaneada por Ángel Rama, intelectual urugüayo, y José Ramón Medina, poeta venezolano, nació la Biblioteca Ayacucho con la finalidad de rescatar los clásicos del pensamiento latinoamericano y caribeño y ponerlos al alcance del público mediante ediciones que contemplaran su actualización crítica y contextualización. Ahora, A 32 años de aquel nacimiento, Biblioteca Ayacucho tiene en su haber más de trescientas publicaciones especializadas que abarcan un abanico temporal que va desde la apoca prehispánica hasta nuestros días. Recorrer esa aventura intelectual, hablar de las distintas colecciones que conforman la Biblioteca Ayacucho, abordar sus planes y metas más inmediatas y mediatas, hablar sobre los alcances en cuanto a distribución y ventas, son algunos de los temas que abordará la conferencia.
7:00 El Orinoco y su escritura
José Balza, Professor, Universidad Central de Venezuela
La experiencia literaria de un novelista posmoderno. La ciudad y la selva.
7:30 – 8:00 Reception
