Madrid (EFE).- Today the European Music Day 2023 is celebrated with young talent as the main protagonist in halls, squares and emblematic spaces throughout Spain, in an offer that will also alternate small recitals such as one of Tibetan bowls with large concerts by foreign artists such as The Vaccines or Metronomy.
At the national level, and for the fourteenth consecutive year, INAEM and the State Association of Live Rooms (ACCES) have organized a program of ten free concerts in venues throughout the country with local and emerging artists to remember their importance in the cultural fabric .
Thus, today they will be able to enjoy performances by Dolly Rose in Directo Cuenca (Cuenca), Laura Esparza in El Volánder (Valencia), Cuti Vericad and Los Coringas in Creedence (Zaragoza) and Kamikazes and Quincalla in Gruta 77 (Madrid).
Tomorrow they will play Zeltia Irevire at Casa das Crechas (Santiago de Compostela), Pájaro Irevire at Malandar Music Club (Seville), Peligro! together with Yoko Factor in Es Gremi (Palma de Mallorca), Al Carmona and Gatoperro in Asklepios (Valladolid), Esther Ovejero Trio in Café Teatro Rayuela (Santa Cruz de Tenerife) and Groove In Quartet in Jazzazza Jazz Club (Algezares, in Murcia) .
Madrid epicenter of the events
Madrid will once again be the epicenter of many of the initiatives undertaken before this commemoration. One of the most common is the traditional Music Day concert organized by the National Center for Musical Diffusion (CNDM), which this year will focus on performance promises.
Thus, within the framework of the thirtieth anniversary of the Reina Sofía Superior School of Music, it will have the participation of the school’s Freixenet Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Juanjo Mena and soloists such as the violinist Noemí Fúnez to play pieces such as the overture to “The Nuremberg Mastersingers” by Richard Wagner.
Today it will be possible to enjoy free activities, a curious recital of vibration of Tibetan quartz bowls in the Naves del Español in Matadero, a family program by the artist Leonardo Echeverri.
In parallel, and on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Picasso’s death, the Federation of Bands of the Community of Madrid will stage a concert with more than 50 musicians who will play the music that the painter heard and inspired him, as well as later works that could have been to your liking.
Free admission will also be the recital that the Municipal Symphonic Band of the city will offer in the Sabatini gardens at nightfall, with the premiere of the “Overture for Human Rights” by the composer Juan Antonio Simarro and other titles such as the overture of “The force of destiny” by Verdi or “Film music” Nino Rota.
It will be striking how the T4 of the Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas airport will become the venue for flashmobs, a cappella music and dancers to pay homage to Tina Turner at various times of the day.
The electronics of the artist Caterina Barbieri will take over the central courtyard of the Conde Duque Center for Contemporary Culture with an audiovisual show called “Spirit Exit” on June 24.
And until that date, the Madrid en Vivo association has programmed concerts of various genres in different venues, see in Café Berlin, Constantini-Foretic Encuentro de bellows, and in Clamores, Manuel Fortia and Giovanni Guidi, among others.
Although if there is one event that will mobilize the public it will be the Tomavistas festival, which for this edition moved its celebration date to coincide precisely with Music Day. Back at its original venue in the Enrique Tierno Galván Park, there will be three days with international names such as Metronomy, The Vaccines or Ladytron and national names such as Ginebras, Sidonie and La Casa Azul.
Barcelona will host free performances throughout the city
Barcelona, for its part, will host ten free performances distributed throughout the city and at different times, from the guitar concert by Raúl Sandín at midday to works by Beethoven, Granados and Albéniz, among others.
Film music will be the protagonist of several of these meetings, in squares such as Comas or Can Rosés you can enjoy the talent of young performers and pieces from the time of Mozart to the present and in the Pedralbes Monastery Museum, at the beginning of sunset , the tenor Ángel Baile will interpret works by Bellini, Verdi and Moreno Torroba.
There will be more music in iconic places. In Bilbao, Plaza de Indautxu, Calle Ercilla and Parque de Doña Casilda will host parades, gospel choirs and street entertainment bands, while in Seville, the Real Alcázar and Las Setas de la Encarnación will host two concerts by the Youth Orchestra of the city.
And for those who don’t want to leave home, the “Documentos TV” program on La 2 will premiere around midnight “Los violines de la esperanza”, starring a luthier who repairs instruments that have been abandoned or taken from Jews who were forced to play in orchestras. of the Nazi concentration camps.