Manolo Sanlúcar adds music to the Andalusian map with the premiere of the symphony ‘Música para ocho monumentos’

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Manolo Sanlúcar adds music to the Andalusian map with the premiere of the symphony ‘Música para ocho monumentos’. On February 19th at Seville’s Teatro de la Maestranza, the Cádiz-born guitarist premieres a concert which has taken him eighteen years to compose. Accompanied by the Córdoba Symphony Orchestra, he will perform for the first time this work assigned by the Junta de Andalucía which, in his view, “isn’t flamenco, but rather Andalusian music; they’re first cousins”. The monuments he is inspired by are the prehistoric archaeological site of Los Millares (Almería), the ruins of the Roman city of Baelo Claudia (Cádiz), the Monastery of the Hieronymites (Córdoba), the Bath of Comares (Granada), the Mines of Riotinto (Huelva), Sabiote Castle (Jaén), the round Cemetery of Sayalonga (Málaga) and the Hacienda del Olivar (Seville). The same night, the guitarist will also premiere ‘Canción de Andalucía’, whose lyrics, music and orchestration he authors. Just a few months ago at Seville’s Bienal de Flamenco 2008 - which paid him tribute - Sanlúcar premiered the work for guitar ‘La voz del color’, inspired in the painting of Baldomero Romero Ressendi.

CD. Manolo Sanlúcar,
"Locura de brisa y trino"

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