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Institut Ramon Llull/ Newsletter # 65 |
SEPTEMBER 2016 / NY, USA |
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Performing Arts.
Washington DC,
08/09/2016
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Cervantes has died in the street and a drunk insists that the man who killed him is the renowned poet Lope de Vega. This same man recounts the secrets Cervantes shared with him, revealing the most tempestuous periods in the great writer’s life and the furious creativity of his final years.
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Music.
Canada,
11/09/2016
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Marina Rossell is one of the greatest legends of Catalan song. In her 40 year career, she created more than 20 albums demonstrating her unmatched talent. Having traveled across much of Europe, the US and Latin America, Marina Rossell will tour Canada for the first time (Montreal, Toronto and Quebec City).
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Music.
New York,
18/09/2016
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Fresh from his 'impassioned and eloquent performance' (New York Classical Review) at Carnegie Hall in March 2016, pre-eminent Catalan virtuoso pianist José Menor continues his worldwide tour performing ‘Goyescas’, to mark the centenary of the great Catalan composer, Enrique Granados (1867-1916).
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Thought and Science.
New York,
20/09/2016
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From 2010 on, a large, democratic, inclusive movement in favor of the independence of Catalonia has gained a previously unseen (and unforeseen) strength. Josep Maria Muñoz, 2016/17 King Juan Carlos I Chair of Spanish Culture and Civilization, will discuss the current Spanish crisis and a shift in Catalonia’s and Spain’s history.
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26/09/2016
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The Llull Year international program includes a travelling exhibition and over 50 activities, including concerts, poetry readings and academic and literary events all over Europe, America and North Africa.
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Music.
Boston,
23/09/2016
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The long-awaited U.S. opera debut of Calixto Bieito in a co-production with Boston Lyric Opera and San Francisco Opera.
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Literature.
USA,
25/07/2016
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The Translation Fund, now celebrating its thirteenth year, received a large number of applications this year—171 total—spanning a wide array of languages of origin, genres, and eras. From this vast field of applicants, the Fund’s Advisory Board has selected fourteen projects, spanning 9 different languages, including two translation projects from the Catalan.
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Literature.
Canada,
01/09/2016
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After his father is arrested for dissent, Andrés moves from Barcelona to his grandparents' cottage in the mountains of Catalonia. As he transitions to the pastoral life of his ancestors, he's awakened to the beauty of their history—and the injustice of Franco's occupation. Upon news of his father's death in prison, anger spurs action, and Andrés' life is changed forever.
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Literature.
USA,
13/09/2016
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It is 1936, and Barcelona burns as the Spanish Civil War takes over. The city is a bloodbath. Yet in all this death, the murders of a Marist monk and a young boy, drained of their blood, are strange enough to catch a police inspector’s attention. His quest for justice is complicated by the politics, dangers, and espionage of daily life in a war zone.
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The Institut Ramon Llull aims at projecting the Catalan language and their culture in all its forms, materials and means of expression.
The Institut Ramon Llull is a consortium that comprises the Generalitat (Government of Catalonia) and the Barcelona City Council, and its mission is the promotion of Catalan language and culture abroad.
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