Romero Guitar Quartet - ENCUENTROS/ENCOUNTERS 2012
Friday, October 26, 2012
7–9:30 p.m.
Location: Arts Building Performance Lab, ARTS 166
Parking Information
Category: Concert
Description: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC
ENCUENTROS/ENCOUNTERS 2012
A lecture-demonstration featuring the world-renowned Romero Guitar Quartet
and UCR musicology professor Walter Aaron Clark
7:00 pm Lecture
Walter Aaron Clark, “Los Romero: The Saga of an Andalusian Family of Guitarists, Part 2”
8:00 pm Concert
The Romero Guitar Quartet Performs Works from the Classical and Flamenco Repertoire
Free and open to the public.
Though admission is free, a ticket is required. One ticket per person. Tickets are available at the Performance Lab door at 6:00 pm. Seating is limited and on a first-come, first-served basis.
Romero Guitar Quartet
A veritable institution in the world of classical music, the Romero Guitar Quartet has dazzled countless audiences and won rave reviews worldwide. During a career spanning fifty-five years and three generations of guitarists, the Romeros have performed with every major symphony orchestra in the United States, as well as at the Hollywood Bowl, the White House, and the Vatican. They are known to television audiences through their appearances on the Tonight and Today Shows as well as on PBS specials and the PBS telecast of Evening at the Boston Pops. In the words of Spanish composer Joaquín Rodrigo, “The Romeros have developed the technique of the guitar by making what is difficult to be easy; they are, without a doubt, the grand masters of the guitar.”
Walter Aaron Clark received an M.A. in classical guitar at UCSD, where he was a student of Pepe Romero. He subsequently earned a Ph.D. in musicology from UCLA. He is the author of books on Spanish composers Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados, and Federico Moreno Torroba, all published by Oxford University Press. He is also the editor or co-editor of several books on Spanish and Latin American music, and he edits the Oxford series Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music. He is currently writing a book about the Romero family.
Center for Iberian and Latin American Music (CILAM) was established at the University of California, Riverside, in 2004 to foster research and performance in an inter-disciplinary spirit, embracing the entire musical heritage of Iberia and Latin America. The Center’s activities include maintaining an educational website, www.cilam.ucr.edu; an online scholarly journal, Diagonal; and annual Encuentros/Encounters, featuring concerts and lectures dealing with a particular aspect of Iberian or Latin American music.
Walter A. Clark, director
Professor of Musicology
University of California, Riverside
ARTS 145 (951) 827-2114
Encuentros/Encounters 2012 is made possible by generous financial support from the MaryLu Clayton Rosenthal Endowment and the cooperation of the UCR Departments of Music and Dance.
Parking: $5 in Lot 1 - no fee with UC permit
Open to: Though admission is free, a ticket is required. One ticket per person. Tickets are available at the Performance Lab door at 6:00 pm. Seating is limited and on a first-come, first-served basis.
Admission: Free
Sponsor: Music Department
Contact Information:
Kathy DeAtley
(951) 827-3245
performingarts@ucr.edu