{"id":230,"date":"2012-12-22T18:37:19","date_gmt":"2012-12-22T18:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ggkarman.de\/benvingutmrgerhard\/?page_id=230"},"modified":"2013-04-22T15:25:58","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T15:25:58","slug":"concierto-monografico-roberto-gerhard","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ggkarman.de\/benvingutmrgerhard\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tribute to Roberto Gerhard"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This blog entry commemorates the concert dedicated to the Anglo-Catalan composer Roberto Gerhard (1896\u20131970)\u00a0that took place in the Auditori of the Conservatori del Liceu in Barcelona the 26th of April 2012. The soir\u00e9e was part of the activities of the II International Conference Roberto Gerhard and the Spring Festival of the Conservatori del Liceu.<\/p>\n

Gerhard is, perhaps, best known as a pupil of Schoenberg but he was also one of the very few pre-1900\u00a0composers who dared to venture into the uncharted field of composition with\u00a0manipulated tape. His centre of operations in Cambridge\u00a0was a modest domestic studio fitted with a handful of EMI and Ferrograph open-reel tape recorders. Incidentally, he was also one of the few composers in Britain to receive support from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Contemporary of more widely-known electronic music pioneers such as Schaeffer, Henry, Var\u00e8se, Babbitt,\u00a0Maderna, Berio or Stockhausen, the Spanish-born composer Roberto Gerhard\u2014convinced of\u00a0the expressiveness of recorded sound, which he aimed to bring to a level of poetic imaginery in his „sound compositions“\u2014is probably one\u00a0among the most original and distinctive voices of the early days of the new\u00a0medium.<\/p>\n

Our tribute to Gerhard included the first concert performance of his „radiophonic poem“\u00a0Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter<\/a><\/em> (1959), for speaker and tape, and the Iberian premiere of the film DNA in Reflection<\/a><\/em> (1963), which features Gerhard’s „aleatoric soundtrack“ (A.K.A.\u00a0Audiomobile No. 2 „DNA“<\/em>). Adding to this gloom, the commemoration of John Cage’s 100 anniversary in 2012 and the partnership with the conservatory of the Liceu, provided the ideal excuse to get engaged in the adventure of a world premiere of Claustrophilia<\/a><\/em> (1966) \u2014 a musical action for eight harps and four short wave radios dedicated to Cage that was carried out by a group of intrepid students of the conservatory.\u00a0The night was rounded off by splendid performances of three of Gerhard’s\u00a0Catalan songs<\/a>\u00a0and his\u00a0Capriccio<\/a><\/em>\u00a0for solo flute, also interpreted by students of the Liceu.<\/p>\n

The concert was made possible thanks to the creativity and dedication\u00a0of the\u00a0professors,\u00a0students, and staff of the Conservatori del Liceu (alongside individual contributors from Barcelona, Figueres, and Avign\u00f3) and the kind support of the University of Huddersfield and the British Arts and Humanities Research Council project „The Electronic Music of Roberto Gerhard“.<\/p>\n

G.G.K.<\/div>\n
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This blog entry commemorates the concert dedicated to the Anglo-Catalan composer Roberto Gerhard (1896\u20131970)\u00a0that took place in the Auditori of the Conservatori del Liceu in Barcelona the 26th of April 2012. 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La cinta fue realizada en el estudio dom\u00e9stico que Roberto Gerhard hab\u00eda instalado un a\u00f1o antes en su casa de Madingley Road en Cambridge, y ensamblada\u2026","rel":"","context":"\u00c4hnlicher Beitrag","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/ggkarman.de\/benvingutmrgerhard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMG_6929-200x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":149,"url":"https:\/\/ggkarman.de\/benvingutmrgerhard\/program\/claustrophilia\/","url_meta":{"origin":230,"position":4},"title":"Claustrophilia (a page for John Cage)","date":"17\/12\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"El juego de palabras que escoge\u00a0Gerhard para dar t\u00edtulo a\u00a0esta p\u00e1gina \u2013 \u00a0ejercitando sin duda alguna, creo yo, ese\u00a0ingenio y sentido del humor tan gerhardianos \u2013 puede interpretarse como\u00a0una expresi\u00f3n de afecto por Cage pero tambi\u00e9n como una reivindicaci\u00f3n de su propia visi\u00f3n m\u00e1s sobria del oficio (claustro-philia). Gerhard conoci\u00f3\u2026","rel":"","context":"Mit 2 Kommentaren","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/ggkarman.de\/benvingutmrgerhard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-shot-2012-12-18-at-13.35.06-300x224.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":500,"url":"https:\/\/ggkarman.de\/benvingutmrgerhard\/contact\/","url_meta":{"origin":230,"position":5},"title":"Contact","date":"26\/12\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I am \u00a0happy to learn more about other people's interest in Gerhard.","rel":"","context":"\u00c4hnlicher Beitrag","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ggkarman.de\/benvingutmrgerhard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ggkarman.de\/benvingutmrgerhard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ggkarman.de\/benvingutmrgerhard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ggkarman.de\/benvingutmrgerhard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ggkarman.de\/benvingutmrgerhard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":241,"href":"https:\/\/ggkarman.de\/benvingutmrgerhard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1072,"href":"https:\/\/ggkarman.de\/benvingutmrgerhard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/230\/revisions\/1072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ggkarman.de\/benvingutmrgerhard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}