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Amancio Prada acts this Friday, July 15, at 22.00 pm in Caravaca de la Cruz, in the concert series "Music in the Castle ', organized by the Department of Culture of the City of Caravaca de la Cruz.
The concert will be held on the forecourt and entrance fee is ten euros.
The leonine singer will present 'The barefoot voice', a show of poetry and mystical, inspired by verses of John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Jesus.
The show, created from the texts of the two universal mystical saints, linked to the history of Caravaca, opened last year in Avila, framed in programming approved by the National Commission V Centenario and has already gone through some of the 'Cities Teresianas'.
"Nine new songs of St. Teresa in dialogue with as many of John, linked by a script that is nourished by the thought of both saints poets and personal. Descalzas Songs, voice and guitar, to bring the verse on wings. Songs soul in width, ranging from flight Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross. two llamas llamas love of living of the same fire, the same love. ".
It defines the show's own Amancio Prada, renowned composer and soundtrack put couplets of Jorge Manrique's poems Rosalia de Castro or the verses of Federico Garcia Lorca.
BIOGRAPHY.
Amancio Prada was born in Dehesas, León, in 1949. With twenty years is going to Paris.
There he studied sociology at the Sorbonne University and conducts studies of harmony, composition and guitar in the same town with professors Michel Puig and Silos Manso.
After its presentation in the French capital with Georges Brassens at Bobino theathre during the month of December 1972, the performances of Amancio Prada succeed both on radio and television and migrant centers and at universities in the neighboring country.
There he released his first album in 1974, Vida e morte.
On his return to Spain in 1975 he recorded his second album, dedicated to Rosalia de Castro, and settled in Segovia to devote himself entirely to composition.
The result of this stage are Caravel of caraveles, Spiritual Canticle, Love songs and cell and Lelia Doura.
Precisely with the Canticle of John of the Cross, in February 1982 gives a series of four concerts at the Teatro Spanish and then embarks on a tour of major American universities.
Later that same year returns to sing in the Teatro Spanish with Chicho Sánchez Ferlosio and Agustin Garcia Calvo, who will dedicate their next album, Songs and monologues, 1983. In the following years and after his presentation at the Palau de la music of Barcelona, ​​at the Piccolo Teatro of Milan and the Paris Theater Odeon, records from the power of air and sweet wine oblivion.
His performance at the Teatro Real Madrid in the first Autumn Festival, not only confirms the unanimous criticism he has been receiving so far.
They highlight in particular the rigor of their work, the strangeness of his artistic orientation and, as Edward Rothstein wrote in the New York Times, "the flexibility of its timbre and dramatic ability on stage".
In 1986 opens the Sonnets of Dark Love of F. García Lorca in the Teatro Maria Guerrero in Madrid, under the stage direction of Lluis Pasqual, and prepares his next album, A lady eo cabaleiro, 1987 on the poetry of Alvaro Cunqueiro neotrovadoresca .
Later, in collaboration with writer Manuel Vicent, composed the songs Navigating night.
In 1990 recorded a double album entitled Troubadours, mystics and romantics, presented together with the Spiritual Canticle in the IV Festival of Sacred Music in Maastricht and the National Music Auditorium, in the XIII Cycle Chamber and polyphony.
Thus began a concert tour during 1991 would take more than eighty cities in Spain.
In 1992, in collaboration with the Ballet Company Luis Fuente, it premieres a new show: Dance Songs.
Emboscados published in 1994, an oratorio on a long own poem for two solo voices and chamber ensemble.
In 1997 he recorded with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Galicia Rosas Rosalia, accompanied by Amelia Muge, Ginesa Ortega, Maria del Mar Bonet, Marisa Paredes, Maria Dolores Pradera, Martirio, Nuria Espert and tambourine Baio.
This album is a renewed Galician poet Rosalia de Castro, who would inspire his first songs tribute.
Disc 3 poets in the circle (dedicated to Cunqueiro, García Lorca and Calvo) 1998 is his first live recording and live performed during the concerts held at the Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid.
The following year he recorded De Mar e Terra, work and recreation collection of couplets Galician oral tradition, in the same line of caraveles Caravel.
And in 2001 records is written with songs from various contemporary poets.
In his first record-book, Songs of the soul, along with a new version of the Spiritual Canticle with the Choir of Segovia, offers five new songs also composed poems by John of the Cross: Living Flame of Love, which I well know the fonte, on a dark night, live without living in me and the divine word.
This album commemorates the 25th anniversary of the first edition of the Spiritual Canticle and its premiere at the Church of San Juan de los Caballeros, in Segovia, on Holy Saturday 1977.
In 2004 he published his second album-book entitled Sonnets and songs of Federico Garcia Lorca, a compilation of all themes inspired by the masterful poetry of Lorca.
In 2005 disco-published three books: Until another day, Chicho, published by the Foundation Joaquin Diaz and dedicated to his friend Chicho Sánchez Ferlosio;?
always Rosalia, with which revisits the work of Rosalia de Castro, and Traces of Salamanca, which includes the live recording of the concert held at the Teatro Liceo in Salamanca on the occasion of the commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the Plaza Mayor.
In 2006 he was invited to participate in the commemoration of the fourth centenary of the Main Theater of Zamora and recorded the two concerts held in such a scenario that give rise to a new record, Zamora, which also contains the intervention of poets Juan Carlos Mestre and Agustin Garcia Calvo.
The disc live concert recital fruit of love is celebrated in the church of Jeronimos in Madrid on June 8, 2005, accompanied by the cellist Mariana Cores and Hilary Fielding and the Choir of Segovia.
Then he works in translating Léo Ferré songs and in 2007 dedicated his next album-book, Life artist.
In 2010 published three books-disc and a Cd.Las Verses on the death of his father Jorge Manrique, with the Editorial Casariego, whose book also contains the Coplas illuminated with watercolors and frotages of Juan Carlos Mestre and calligraphy by Pablo González .
The publishing poetry Broken Glass also published in book-album format two classic works in the repertoire of Amancio Prada, revised and remastered: Emboscados and Spiritual Canticle and other songs of John of the Cross.
Both editions are stamped musical score, a literary and graphic glossary of Juan Carlos Mestre in the case of Emboscados, and a foreword by poet Gemma Gorga and illustrations by Victor Ramirez in the Canticle.
Finally, on the occasion of the 1,100 anniversary of the Kingdom of Leon, composes the music of a selection of songs and medieval romances that brings on a new album under the title of love lose sleep.
Says the poet Juan Carlos Mestre in the presentation of love lose sleep: "Coherent in the wake of their own way, Amancio Prada takes up with these songs anthology of lyrical love and only lingers in the wind; the delicate forms of terms today impatiently awaits the promise of dawn: life sung from the pure desire of its original beauty passion and brevity of life, the desire for freedom and the smile accomplice of lovers remain today, as then, the most. touching and beautiful testimony of the popular intelligence against the power and death. and the miracle of minstrelsy, the beautiful and innocent wars love lose sleep, accomplices songs of sweetness are made in the voice as faithful as rigorous solitary bird which remains Amancio Prada. "
In early 2011, Amancio Prada is invited by José Luis Gómez to premiere at the Teatro de la Abadia Verses of Jorge Manrique to the death of his father.
This recital is offered in alternation with the Canticle of John of the Cross, forming a fundamental diptych of Spanish poetry.
Both shows, with stage direction by Carlos Aladro, occur from January 20 to February 6.
In April 2013 it is presented in the Spanish Theater of Madrid the show Rosalia de Federico, scenic undiálogo between Amancio Prada ydos of the most essential and poignant voices of Spanish poetry: Federico Garcia Lorca and Rosalia de Castro.
It is Deun recital in which his new compositions on the Six Gallegos Poems Lorca and elegiac salutation Rosalia de Castro are released, from an original idea of ​​José Luis Gómez, with poetic career of Juan Carlos Mestre, scenic space Marco Herreros, lighting Carlos Marquerie and Carlos Aladro address.
In June premiered at the Cervantes Institute of New York recitalmonográfico Songs, Sonnets and Gazelles Federico García Lorca.
And in October 2013 published a new disc-book dedicated to the poet and filósofozamorano Agustin Garcia Calvo, whose title refers to one of his songs másemblemáticas, Free love you.
This new album includes a DVD with the recording of the recital quedieron Chicho Sánchez Ferlosio, Augustine and Amancio at the Teatro Spanish Hotels.com guest on 19 November 1982. Basilio Martin Patino has chosen the Free song I love you like title and soundtrack of his last film, a documentary about the 15-M movement.
In 2014 the publishing Broken Glass edits the audio-book "Federico Garcia Lorca, the poet in Galicia" which includes six poems that Lorca wrote in Galician.
It is illustrated by Juan Carlos Mestre.
In 2015 "Barefoot voice" a book-album, with illustrations by Juan Carlos Mestre, which contains nine songs of St. Teresa of Ávila.El opens March 28 in Avila concert "Barefoot voice" within the events is published commemorating the V Centenary of the birth of St. Teresa of Jesus.
On October 2 premieres at the Teatro Monumental in Madrid "Songs of the Soul": Spiritual Canticle of St. John of the Cross "and" Teresa de Jesus, wife of the song "with the Orchestra and Chorus of RTVE led porFernando Velázquez.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz
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