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The Aberri Eguna ("Fatherland Day" in Basque, referring to the Basque homeland) is a festive celebration of right-wing and left-wing Basque nationalism that is convened annually on Easter Sunday . This celebration, created by the Basque Nationalist Party in 1932, is celebrated throughout the Basque Country (autonomous communities of Euskadi , Navarra and the Basque Country in France ), as well as by the Basque diaspora spread throughout the world. The first celebration was held in Bilbao in 1932; It was banned after the Spanish Civil War in 1936 and began to be held again in 1964.

José María Iparragirre (Urretxu, Gipuzkoa, 1820-1881) was a well-known bertsolari (verse improviser) and popular musician, who led a bohemian and adventurous life; hence his nickname of the Basque bard , an image that he supported with an inseparable guitar and the improvisation of songs and bertsos. His work, mostly written in Basque , includes some of the most significant and popular songs from the Basque Country . Considered by the authorities of his time as a dangerous "agitator of the masses", he suffered prison and exile, lived for 19 years in Argentina and Uruguay , and on his return he earned a living with the recitals he gave throughout the Basque Country . He died of pneumonia in his hometown of Urretxu , where he is buried.

The Gernika tree is a specimen of oak ( Quercus robur ) located in front of the Casa de Juntas in the Biscayne town of Gernika . This tree symbolizes the traditional freedoms of Bizkaia and by extension those of the entire Basque People .

Gernikako arbola , the best-known song by Iparragirre , is a zortziko in homage to the Tree of Gernika and the Basque privileges it represents. The song was premiered at the Café de San Luis in Madrid in 1853, accompanied on piano by maestro Juan María Blas de Altuna . The zortziko was repeated over and over again among the most spontaneous bravos and applause; That same night all the Basques who attended the memorable evening memorized it, and at the last minute the Gernikako arbola was sung in chorus by fifty, sixty or more voices, while Iparraguirre and Altuna were the object of a true ovation.

Nana Mouskouri (in Greek Νάνα Μούσχουρηe, 1934) is a Greek singer-songwriter, particular for being one of the best-selling soloists in history, with more than 300 million records, cassettes and CDs.

In 1959 the triumphs for Nana began, thanks to her experiences with different musical genres ( Pop, Jazz, Folkloric, Classical, Gospel , etc.). He obtained numerous and important national and international awards becoming a world celebrity, with songs in Greek, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Latin, German, Hebrew and Japanese. She publicly disapproved of the Greek military dictatorship and supported democracy until its restoration in 1974. Her love for children led her to become a UNICEF ambassador in 1993, and then to represent Greece in the European Parliament in 1994.

The Va pensiero choir that we offer today belongs to the third act of the opera Nabucco , for many critics Verdi 's masterpiece. It is the Chorus of Hebrew Slaves captured by Nebuchadnezzar and taken to Babylon where they melancholy remember the happy days they enjoyed freedom in their native country. And it was precisely this choir that the Italian patriots anxious for the unity and sovereignty of Italy sang when it was dominated by the Austrian Empire and it is this, too, the choir that Nana Mouskouri sings to us today in a version adapted to its characteristics. .

Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826) was a German composer. From a very young age he learned to sing and play the piano and at the age of 12 received free lessons in Salzburg from Michael Haydn , brother of Joseph Haydn . In 1812 his father died and the following year he was appointed conductor of the Prague Orchestra and later of the Dresden Orchestra, while working on his most famous opera Der Freischütz (The Poacher); He also composed two other operas Euryanthe and Oberon ; the three operas are considered by many critics as masterpieces of the scenic genre. In addition to other operas, he composed numerous songs, piano works, chamber works, two symphonies, several overtures, concertos and concertante works for different instruments, three masses and eight cantatas.

The clarinet is a musical instrument of the family of woodwind instruments with a single reed (the oboe and bassoon use double reeds). Within the orchestra, he is in the woodwind section, along with the flute, oboe, saxophone and bassoon. The timbre of the clarinet is rich in nuances and expressive possibilities. Along with the flute and the violin, it is the most agile instrument in the orchestra; it can emit any extreme nuance in any of its registers, making this instrument an extremely versatile voice.

Parts of the clarinet . Mouthpiece : it is the piece where the reed is placed and the instrumentalist places the mouth to make the embouchure. The reed is a thin strip of material (usually wood) that thanks to the wind that is produced when the instrumentalist blows, the reed vibrates producing a sound in the instrument. Barrel : it is the element that articulates the mouthpiece with the upper body of the instrument. Upper body : it is where the left hand is placed when playing and it has part of the instrument's mechanism. Lower body : it is where the right hand is placed when playing and it has part of the instrument's mechanism. Bell : Located in the lower part and fulfills an acoustic function that allows the projection of sound during the performance

George Gershwin (1898-1937) was an American composer appreciated for having known how to combine jazz with classical music . From a young age he began to write his first songs, premiering his first musical on Broadway with his brother Ira as lyricist, a company he would never leave. From the age of twenty he began to compose, works designed for concert halls with which he obtained renowned successes. Aware of his formal deficits, he traveled to Paris to complete his training with Stravinsky , who, after asking him about the money earned in a year, replied that he was the one who should take classes with Gershwin . Something similar happened with Ravel , because he blurted out that "Why do you want to be a second-rate Ravel , when you can be a first-rate Gershwin ?"

La Rhapsody in Blue , a work that we are presenting today, was initially written for solo piano and jazz band and arranged for piano and symphony orchestra in 1946 by Ferde Grofé (1892-1972), which is the version that is usually offered. The work aroused some controversy at its premiere; but in a short time his freshness and imagination prevailed, occupying one of the first positions of preference among the best pianists and orchestras.

Lola Astanova (1982), our soloist today, is a pianist born in Uzbekistan . At the age of eight he was already touring as a soloist, astonishing audiences in half of Europe with his technique and childlike imagination. She has performed in the best venues in the world both alone and under the baton of the main orchestra conductors.

Dianne Reeves , ( Detroit 1956) is considered one of the most important female jazz singers of our time. Discovered by Clark Terry , she has sung with the trumpeter while still at the University of Colorado . In California , he records with Lenny White, Stanley Turrentine, Alphonso Johnson, and The Latin Ensemble . Between 1978 and 1980, he meets Billy Childs and begins an artistic relationship that will last ten years. He works with the group Night Flight, Sergio Mendes and with the composer Phil Moore and other renowned artists. He releases successful albums and tours throughout the United States and Asia that are highly regarded by jazz connoisseurs and audiences. Currently, she is established as one of the most qualified voices in the world of contemporary vocal jazz .

Bob Dylan (1941) is an American musician, songwriter, singer, and poet, widely regarded as one of the most prolific and influential figures in 20th and early 21st century popular music. Throughout his career he explored the American musical tradition with folk, blues, country, gospel, rock and roll and rockabilly , as well as English, Scottish and Irish folk music , including jazz and jazz. swing . His albums have won him several Grammys , Golden Globes and Academy Awards , while the lyrics of his songs incorporate a variety of social, political, philosophical and literary themes.

In January 1990, he was invested as a Knight of the French Order of Arts and Letters ; in 1999, he was named to Time magazine's list of the hundred most influential people of the 20th century ; in 2000, he won the Royal Swedish Academy of Music's Polar Music Prize and in 2004 he reached second place on Rolling Stone's list of the hundred greatest artists of all time, after The Beatles . In May 2012, he received the US Presidential Medal of Freedom and in 2016, the Nobel Prize for Literature .

The Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) was a Russian composer who graduated from the Saint Petersburg Conservatory and wrote works of different genres, although he achieved his greatest success with his ballets. In 1859 he obtained a position as a civil servant in the Ministry of Justice , which he would abandon at the age of three to be able to dedicate himself solely to music. His personal life was plagued by continuous crises since the death of his mother and his repressed homosexuality, which forced him into a marriage that only lasted a few months. He wrote more than 150 compositions, including piano works, quartets, suites, symphonies, concertos, chorales, cantatas, operas, and ballets. He died at the age of 53 and is considered one of the greatest composers in history.

Sleeping Beauty , one of the most performed ballets in the classical repertoire, is a fairy tale/ballet structured in a prologue and three acts, whose music was written by Tchaikovsky in 1889 with choreography by Marius Petipa and a libretto by Ivan Vsevolozhsky and Petipa himself. ; The plot was based on the story The Sleeping Beauty of the Forest , which is a young princess condemned to sleep forever until true love comes into her life. Today we offer the entire ballet performed by the Mariinsky Theater Ballet and Orchestra.

PDQ Bach is a fictional composer invented by American musical satirist Peter Schickele , who built a five-decade career performing the "discovered" works of the Bach family's "only forgotten son". Schickele 's music combines parodies of musicological scholarship, the conventions of classical and baroque music, and slapstick comedy. The name PDQ is a parody of the three-part names given to some members of the Bach family that are commonly reduced to initials, such as CPE for Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach ; PDQ is an acronym for Pretty Damned Quick .

Peter Schickele began working on the character while studying at the Aspen Music Festival and School and Juilliard and has done a variety of PDQ Bach programs over the years. The weekly The Village Voice mentions the juxtaposition of collage, bitonality, musical satire and orchestral surrealism in a "strange melodic stream of consciousness [...] In PDQ Bach has mapped a musical universe that everyone knew was there and that no one else had the guts (not simply the bad taste) to explore." As of 2012, Schickele had declined touring due to age. He held two concerts to commemorate the 50th anniversary of his first concert at The Town Hall in New York on December 28 and 29, 2015 and continues to offer live concerts.