The UV dedicates a very varied cultural programme to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the proclamation of València as the capital city of the Second Republic. During a short period of time (from 7 November 1936 to 31 October 1937), València was the centre from which the Second Republic kept and headed the defence of the State. During that time the city lived a great social and cultural effervescence. This programme works in conjunction with CulturArts Música and also with the Culture and Youth Council of the Valencian city council.
The first activity is the opening concert of the UV, a classic in the cultural programme of the University, that will take place on Thursday 20 October at 20 hours, at the Iturbi Room of the Palau de la Música. There is free entry with an invitation to be picked up just one hour before the event at the ticket window of the Palau de la Música.
The Philharmonic Orchestra of the UV has recovered for this concert the music written in those years by the most dynamic and important Valencian composers of that time. The objective is to put it at the same level as the other contemporary composers from other territories in Spain and Europe. This way, the Philharmonic Orchestra of the UV is still on its labour to spread and promote Valencian music, one of its most prominent distinguishing features.
The programme will recover pieces of the members of the ‘Grupo de los jóvenes’ (Youth Group), that published a manifest in the diary ‘La Correspondència de València’ on 18 January 1934. This group was integrated by the composers Ricardo Olmos Canet (1905-1986), Vicent Garcés Queralt (1906-1984), Luis Sánchez Fernández (1907-1957), Vicent Asencio Ruano (1908-1979) and Emilio Valdés Perlasia (1912-1998).
Furthermore, the concert will include pieces of the master Manuel Palau (1893-1967), as academic and artistic mentor of the composers and of Matilde Salvador Segarra (1918-2007), as witness of one of the few women of that period and also related to the ‘Grupo de los jóvenes’ as she was disciple and wife of Vicent Asencio.
One day before the concert and as precursor of it, on Wednesday 19 November, the Cultural Centre La Nau will host the round table ‘València capital city of the Republic: the music of ‘Grupo de los jóvenes’, an introductory activity to the concert that will serve to contextualize the music of that time. In the event, that will take place in the Sapiencia Chapel at 19:30 hours, the vice-principal for Culture and Equality of the UV, Antonio Ariño; the director of the History and Democratic Memory Room of the UV, Marc Baldó; the sociologist Gil-Manuel Hernández, director of the Museo Fallero; the director of the Philharmonic Orchestra of the UV, Hilari Garcia; and J. Pascual Hernández, professor of Music History of the Higher Music Conservatory of Valencia Joaquín Rodrigo will attend the event.
The exhibition area of the UV has prepared the exhibition Everything is to be done. València capital city of the Republic (1936-1937), that will be opened on 7 November in the Cultural Centre La Nau and it will show to the public the troubled València in times of war. Coinciding with the opening of this exhibition, the Sapiencia Chapel of the Cultural Centre La Nau will host a concert targeted to the ‘Youth Group’, headed by the soprano Marta Estal Vera and the pianist Javier Caballero Ros.
On the other hand, in the month of December, the theatre will also join this anniversary with the première of the work ‘The European Civil War’, played by Escena Erasmus and directed by the dramatist Antoni Tordera. The work will take place during the 12 and 16 of December at the Matilde Salvador Room of La Nau, where it will also take place two more staging of this commemorative programme of the republican capital status. In February, the programmed works are ‘La carta (1931-1941)’, by Emili Chaqués, played by L’Últim Toc Teatre and Malatesta Teatre, and directed by Moreno and Amparo Pedregal; and ‘Prohibida la reproducción’, by José Ricardo Morales, directed by Inma Garín and played by the Theatre Club of the UV.
Also in February, the History and Democratic Memory Room of the UV, directed by Marc Baldó, will develop sessions about this topic.
Last update: 18 de october de 2016 10:59.
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