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Cristóbal Soler Ciro En Babilonia De Rossini Camino De Madurez Esnovedad 1CD Nuestro Personaje Del Mes, Es El Compositor Italiano Nino Rota (1911-1979) REVISTA DE MÚSICA Año XXXI - Nº 320 Julio/Agosto 2016 - 7’50 € Año XXXI - Nº 320 Julio/Agosto 2016 DOSIER SHAKESPEARE 1616 ENCUENTROS PAUL LEWIS ACTUALIDAD JOHN ELIOT GARDINER DISCOS CRISTÓBAL SOLER CIRO EN BABILONIA DE ROSSINI CAMINO DE MADUREZ esnovedad 1CD Nuestro personaje del mes, es el compositor italiano Nino Rota (1911-1979). 1CD 2CD 2CD 4CD 1CD Empezamos con la “Música de cámara” que reivindica la faceta clásica del gran Nino Rota. “O Petrosium. Música para el Santísimo Sacramento” del valenciano Juan Bautista Comes. “La Cetra. 12 conciertos para violín” que Vivaldi escribió para el emperador Car- los VI. “Angelus. Música sacra para piano”, recoge composiciones espirituales de Liszt. La “Música sacra” del compositor flamenco injustamente olvidado Jakobus Vaet. El ora- torio “San Giovanni Crisostomo” de Stradella. Interesantes novedades, al mejor precio. 320-Pliego 1.qxp_Pliego 1 23/6/16 18:11 Página 1 AÑO XXXI - Nº 320 - Julio/Agosto 2016 - 7,50 € 2 OPINIÓN DOSIER 69 Shakespeare 1616 6 CON NOMBRE PROPIO Shakespeare en el 70 John Eliot Gardiner romanticismo Eduardo Torrico Blas Matamoro Apenas tres siglos teatrales 74 8 AGENDA Santiago Martín Bermúdez Las voces del cisne 80 12 ACTUALIDAD Arturo Reverter NACIONAL Shakespeare en la música 86 de América 30 ACTUALIDAD Carlos Singer INTERNACIONAL ENCUENTROS 90 Paul Lewis 40 ENTREVISTA Juan Antonio Llorente Cristóbal Soler Luis Suñén EDUCACIÓN 94 Pedro Sarmiento 46 Discos del mes JAZZ 95 47 SCHERZO DISCOS Sumario CONTRAPUNTO 96 Norman Lebrecht Colaboran en este número: Julio Andrade Malde, Íñigo Arbiza, Rafael Banús Irusta, Emili Blasco, Alfredo Brotons Muñoz, José Antonio Cantón, Jacobo Cortines, Patrick Dillon, David Durán Arufe, Fernando Fraga, Ismael G. Cabral, Germán Gan Quesada, José Antonio García y García, Benjamín G. Rosado, Fernando Herrero, Bernd Hoppe, Paul Korenhof, Norman Lebrecht, Juan Antonio Llorente, Pierre Elie Mamou, Bernardo Mariano, Santiago Martín Bermúdez, Joaquín Martín de Sagarmínaga, Blas Matamoro, Erna Metdepenninghen, Andrés Moreno Mengíbar, Antonio Muñoz Molina, Josep Pascual, Enrique Pérez Adrián, Javier Pérez Senz, Paolo Petazzi, Xavier Pujol, Elisa Rapado Jambrina, Arturo Reverter, Barbara Röder, Leopoldo Rojas O’Donnell, Justo Romero, Urko Sangroniz, Pablo Sanz, Pedro Sarmiento, Aurelio M. Seco, Bruno Serrou, Roberto Sgambatti, Carlos Singer, Franco Soda, Luis Suñén, José Luis Téllez, Eduardo Torrico, Asier Vallejo Ugarte, Claire Vaquero Williams, José Luis Vidal, Reinmar Wagner. Esta revista ha recibido una ayuda a la edición del Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte PRECIO SUSCRIPCIÓN: por un año (11 Números) Esta revista es miembro de ARCE, Asociación de Revistas Culturales de España, y de CEDRO, Centro Español de Derechos Reprográficos. España (incluido Canarias) 75 €. SCHERZO es una publicación de carácter plural y, desde el año 2012, cuenta con la Europa 110 €. Con la colaboración de: colaboración de la Fundación BBVA, manteniendo su carácter de revista no adscrita a Resto de países 130 €. ningún organismo público ni privado. La dirección respeta la libertad de expresión de sus colaboradores. Los textos firmados son de exclusiva responsabilidad de los firmantes, no siendo por tanto opinión oficial de la revista. 1 320-Pliego 1.qxp_Pliego 1 23/6/16 18:11 Página 2 O P I N I ó N EDITORIAL LA MUSICA A LA ESPERA uando este número de SCHERZO llegue a sus lectores ya sabremos los resultados de las elecciones generales pero seguramente sabremos muy C poco de las intenciones que en materia de cultura, y más concretamente de música, tienen cada uno de los partidos que se han presentado a aquellas. A lo largo de la campaña —esta y la anterior con ocasión del frustrado primer intento de gobernabilidad del país— no ha habido discusión alguna relevante salvo los comentarios al varapalo recibido por el gobierno con ocasión del canon digital. Pintoresco ha sido también un artículo del Secretario de Estado de Cultura en funciones que, además de para dar señales de vida, servía para que se diera un cierto lustre que podía haber mostrado mucho antes con una dimisión a tiempo, gesto que le hubiera honrado como intelectual más que recordarnos que “Melville nunca fue muy leído en España. Adolecemos en nuestro país de un déficit lector de escritores anglosajones y se nota. Poco Conrad, menos Faulkner y algo más de James y Shakespeare, pero poca cosa en cualquier caso. Así nos va, podría haber dicho Jovellanos, que era un anglófilo secreto”. En serio: el Partido Popular dedicaba a la cultura el 2,21 % de las páginas de su programa electoral, el PSOE un 2’92%, Podemos un 13,25% y Ciudadanos, un 3,25%. No siempre, aclarémoslo, esas páginas esta- ban llenas de contenido pero, como era de esperar, Podemos ganaba de calle. OPINIÓN Del interés de los contendientes por la música da idea lo que acerca de ella exponían en sus programas, desde la invención de organismos que ya existen a la fiscalidad específica, el sistema asambleario de toma de decisio- nes culturales, la unión en un ministerio de la cultura y la comunicación, la supresión del que ya existe con la transferencia a Cataluña del 18% de su pre- supuesto, la recurrente Ley de la Música, el no menos recurrente Estatuto del Artista, las medias mentiras de los representantes del PP en cuanto a la remu- neración del artista que cobra su jubilación, la intención de Ciudadanos de crear un festival de música contemporánea, el anhelo asambleario de Pode- mos con su Programa de Choque para la música en directo/Paln Operativo de Acceso y Disfrute de la Cultura/Programa específico de visibilidad de la diver- sidad musical/Comisiones de la Música de la Asamblea de Profesionales de la Cultura y Observatorio Ciudadano de la Cultura. Es corriente la apelación a la fiscalidad específica o el micromecenazgo, eso que ya existe pero fuera de la ley, pues, ¿qué hace el consumidor de cultura sino participar en la supervi- vencia de esta en la medida de sus menguantes posibilidades? Con la Ley de Mecenazgo, la que hace falta, choca una pretendida amnistía fiscal a la cultura que podría encocorar a otros sectores. Se agradece la propuesta, por parte del PSOE, de dedicar un sorteo de la Lotería Nacional a la “financiación del cine y de otras industrias culturales” —menos mal que incluyen a esas “otras”— cosa que los ingleses hacen desde hace mucho y les ha servido de algo. El lengua- je de tales deseos, el conocido: se crearán, se tomarán medidas, se impulsará, se fomentará, promete, hay que… Vuelven las cuotas de música española en medio de demasiadas palabras y promesas que no se concretan ni en presu- puestos, ni en beneficios tangibles a pesar de la indudable buena voluntad, teñida de bisoñez en algunos casos, de cinismo en otros, de ignorancia del verdadero terreno que se pisa en casi todos los representantes de los partidos —SCHERZO tuvo ocasión de comprobarlo en los debates organizados por la Junta de Autores de Música y la Fundación SGAE. La conclusión es que aunque parezca que vamos a seguir donde estába- mos se hace necesario que el mundo de la música se haga oír sin complejos. Como lo hace el del libro y por eso, y más cosas que tienen que ver con su relación empresarial con unos cuantos medios de comunicación, su 4% de IVA no se toca. Hay quien quiere mantenerlo y quienes quieren elevarlo al 7%, o hasta el 10%, equiparándolo con un nuevo IVA cultural para todos los productos del sector. Ojalá aquí se tome de inmediato una medida necesaria para la marcha de eso que llamamos cultura y que, por otra parte, los partidos tampoco acaban de definir exactamente, entre la sociología del consumo y el miedo al arte verdadero. 2 320-Pliego 1.qxp_Pliego 1 24/6/16 11:46 Página 3 OPINIÓN La música extremada EDUCANDO EL TALENTO Diseño de portada Argonauta oger H. Brown es uno de esos Foto portada: americanos enérgicos y cordia- Jesús Alcántara les que aparte de hacer muy R Kelly Davidson bien aquello por lo que son conoci- dos están llenos de sorpresas. Cuan- do empecé a hablar con él, en una Edita: SCHERZO EDITORIAL S.L. de esas conferencias internacionales C/Cartagena, 10. 1º C ROGER H. BROWN 28028 MADRID en las que todo es muy vaporoso y Teléfono: 913 567 622 FAX: 917 261 864 suena muy tecnológico, yo sabía que Internet: www.scherzo.es Brown era el presidente de una de E mail: las instituciones educativas más meri- Redacción: [email protected] Administración: [email protected] torias del mundo, el Berklee College of Music de Boston. Lo que no sabía, Presidente: Santiago Martín Bermúdez y descubrí luego, es que Brown, ade- más, es doctor en Físicas y dedicó muchos años de su juventud a traba- jar en tareas humanitarias en algunos REVISTA DE MÚSICA de los lugares más desastrosos del Director: Luis Suñén mundo. A mediados de los años setenta, Brown trabajó en los campos importa tanto la inspiración y la fuer- Redactor jefe: Eduardo Torrico de refugiados camboyanos en Tailan- za personal. Brown nos cuenta la Edición: Arantza Quintanilla dia, en una época en la que los pregunta que se hacen metódica- Secciones Jémeres Rojos se las arreglaban para mente los profesores de Berklee: Si exterminar a la quinta parte de la Bob Dylan hubiera venido a estudiar Discos: Luis Suñén población de su país sin la menor con nosotros, ¿habríamos sabido Educación: Pedro Sarmiento y objeción de la comunidad internacio- alentar su talento o se lo habríamos Joan-Albert Serra nal. Los Jémeres Rojos, en su progra- arruinado? En la música clásica el Jazz: Pablo Sanz ma de eliminación de todo rastro del aprendizaje es más rectilíneo y más pasado para así construir una socie- fácilmente medible.
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