Over the next three months, 15 concerts will be celebrated, most of them will begin at 19:30, and they will take place in the next spaces of the Universitat de València: the Sapiencia Chapel of the Cultural Centre La Nau, the Principal Peset Hall of Residence and the Botanical Garden.

‘Paraules al Concert’ (Words at the concert, in Valencian) is an initiative framed in the spring programming and which will be developed in the cycle ‘Music at the Chapel’ which takes place every Wednesday in the Sapiencia Chapel of La Nau. Thanks to conferences and round tables, composers will be discovered and will be contextualised together with the music, the age and the forms. Contemporary authors of Bach or Mahler, for instance, will be studied and the explanation for popular melodies and brilliances coming from some fusion will be looked for. In the case of the Valencian composers, apart from impressing the audience, it will be exposed their relation with poets and painters, unknown stages and platonic loves. All this with the complicity of the current performers.

Furthermore, the designed programmes for the majority of the concerts, the chamber concerts, try to serve a support line to Valencian music with the presence of Valencian performers and plays of the most distinguished Valencian composers.

Admission is free until full capacity.

Innovation and cultural heritage

‘Innovation and cultural heritage’ is the title of the first conference-concert of the cycle. It will take place in the Chapel of La Nau this Wednesday, 5 April, at 19:30 and it will be directed by Elena Castro, Ingenio CSIC-UPV. After her intervention, the concert of the group ‘La dispersione’ will start. It is directed by Joan B. Boïls and it will perform plays of Vivaldi, Merla and Cabanilles, among other authors.

The second appointment with ‘Paraules al Concert’ will be the 10 May with the organization of the Conference ‘Women, music and education’. This will include, apart from the concert, a round table in order to present the disc Women chorus ‘A cau d’orella’, with the support of the Equality Unit of the Universitat de València.

The last conference will be held on 31 May. ‘Corpus Dances of Juan Bautista Comes (1582-1643): a court repast in the King of Heaven’s table’ with this title the doctor Mireya Royo will present the concert which will be performed then by the group Victoria Musicae, directed by Josep R. Gil-Tàrrega.

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