In April 1936, the 14th Festival of the International Society for Contemporary Music was held in Barcelona. It was one of the last expressions of a fertile time, in terms of cultural life, before a coup d'état destroyed everything (and everything is everything, not just culture, as you know). From a musical standpoint, the Festival is especially remembered for the [...]

Among the musical anniversaries of this new 2025, there is one that the world of Lied will celebrate widely (and I hope we will not be the only ones): the centenary of the birth of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. A great baritone, of course, but above all, a personality without which the genre would not be understood in the second half of the 20th century. And I wanted to begin the year with his [...]

On Christmas days, we look at the children, their excitement, their laughter, their innocence, their eyes that look at everything... And, at some point, we remember with longing that time that the children were us. Don't we? This is the subject of the poem of this week, written by the Austrian poet Christiane Rosalia Frideriks, who used to sign her work as Ada Christen.

From Nazareth to Bethlehem, Joseph and Mary traveled approximately 120 km on foot. Perhaps, at times, Mary was on the back of the donkey that carried the necessary load for the trip (a donkey that Luke does not name, but which it is logical that they carried and is part of the collective imagination). Even so, it was a very hard journey for a woman who was about to give birth.