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Always/Still

Name: Siempre/Todavía
Start: 2015-10-15T19:30
End: 2015-10-15T20:30
Location: {

Price: 12€.

Duration: 70 minutes

World premiere of this co-production between the Museum, Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical and META/CCIÓN: a unique show in which images by Alberto Corazón, projected on a screen and accompanied by the music of Alfredo Aracil, gradually reveal a text. Its raw material are some of Corazón's own notes in his travel notebooks during a transcendental stay in Damascus (Syria) before the tragedy that is ravaging it today. We can speak of a certain story, that of an undefined character (an artist, a spectator, any of us) whom we see from the inside, whose observations, experiences, emotions and dreams, bring him (and us) closer to the impression that time, for some essential things, is not that current that drags almost everything with no possibility of turning back, but a place where past, present and future coexist: a time-memory, culture, that instead of distancing unites men from different times.

Today we do not know what remains, what will remain, of Damascus, Aleppo, its museums and the cultural heritage that until now had been preserved in that region between ancient Mesopotamia and the Mediterranean; we cannot help but wonder... and we discover that part of the answer is, from the very first sketches, implicit in this piece: we are part of that memory; at least all of us remain.

Alberto Corazon

Founder and President of the Spanish Association of Professional Designers, he has won awards such as the National Design Award (1989), Gold Medal Award from the Arts Directors Club (New York), Gold award from The Designers Association of London, Award from the American Institute of Graphic Arts.Spanish designer, sculptor and painter born in Madrid. His work has toured the main cultural and artistic centers of France, Italy, Germany, Great Britain, Spain and the United States. Some of his most famous designs belong to widely known logos in Spain: ONCE, Anaya, Paradores, RENFE (Cercanías), Domo telephone, MAPFRE, Junta de Andalucía, Biblioteca Nacional, Teatro de la Zarzuela, Casa de América, etc.

In mid-November 2006 he became the first designer to be admitted to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando.

Alfredo Aracil

He studied music with Cristóbal Halffter, Tomás Marco, Carmelo Bernaola, Luis de Pablo and Arturo Tamayo in Madrid, and Karlheinz Stockhausen, Iannis Xenakis and Christian Wolf in Darmstadt, among others. He holds a PhD in Art History, a field to which he has dedicated an important part of his activity and publications. He worked in RNE, where he was Head of the Department of Musical Productions of Radio 2, delegate in the Group of Experts of Classical Music of Euroradio and director of several programs and projects.

His compositions have been programmed in international cycles and festivals all over the world and he has received commissions from important Spanish and European cultural institutions. His works have been performed by, among others, the Moscow Radio Orchestra, the Minsk Philharmonic, the Buenos Aires National Symphony Orchestra, the Percussion Group of The Hague, the Kammerensemble Modern der Deutschen Oper Berlin and the most important Spanish ensembles.

Juan Carlos Garvayo

Juan Carlos Garvayo is one of the most active and versatile Spanish pianists today. He is currently a professor at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid. As a soloist and as a member of the prestigious Trio Arbós (National Music Prize 2013), he performs regularly in major halls and international festivals throughout more than 30 countries. He has recorded more than 30 albums for various labels, highlighting his numerous reference recordings of contemporary Spanish music for piano.