If I tell you that the poem that inspired this week's song was written by a Cistercian monk you might think of a religious or contemplative poem, but it's actually an earthly love poem; it appears that our monk, Cristóbal de Castillejo, led a life that didn't fulfilled the vows he had taken. [...]
Francis Poulenc composed the cycle Fiançailles pour rire just after the beginning of the World War II, and he did so because of the war. That's how he explained it: "Had it not been for the war I should doubtless never have written this cycle. I hasten to excuse myself for an assertion which at first glance may seem paradoxical. I composed Fiançailles pour rire so that I could more often turn my thoughts towards Louise de Vilmorin, imprisoned in her castle in Hungary for God knows how long. That was [...]
Agathe Backer was born in 1847 in Holmestrand, a small town in the Oslo fjord. She received the accurate musical training that every daughter from a wealthy and cultured family usually received; it was clear eventually that she was talented enough to pursue a career, and her parents accepted it and allowed her to travel to Berlin to study piano and composition; she was in Germany between 1865 and 1867. After returning, she made her debut at her twenty-one in Christiania (as Oslo was then [...]
A Norse saga tells that before the kings Inge Bårdsson and Philipp Simonsson signed in 1208, in Kvitsøy, the treated that ended the civil war, the god Odin appeared to a blacksmith. The legend also says that the blacksmith himself told Philipp his encounter, and the king to someone else, and so the story passed from generation to generation.
A few years ago, I first spoke to you about Eleonore van der Straaten. Well, it's a saying because the most strange thing about this author was, precisely, the lack of information about her. I wasn't even sure if the few data I had collected actually corresponded to our Eleonore because I found two different birthdates and several similar surnames.
Totes les sessions seran a les 19 hores a La Tribu Llibreria c/Pons i Gallarza 30, Sant Andreu