1965 Madrid

May 20, 1965 – May 28, 1965
Madrid

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Start: May 20, 1965

End: May 28, 1965

Locations: Madrid

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(Held in connection with Primavera Cultural)

From contemporaneous reviews:

“Durante los ocho dias de festival hubo muchos héroes, entre los que se cuentan directores e intérpretes.”

(“During the eight days of the festival, there were many heroes, including directors and performers.”)  

–Fernando López Lerdo de Tejada, “XXXIX Festival Mundial SIMC,”
Ritmo Issue 354 (June 1965), p. 11 (translated into English using deepl.com)

“Excellent performances”

–Colin Mason, “Concerto to Beguile the Listener,”
Daily Telegraph and Morning Post, May 21, 1965, p. 19.

“En estos cuarenta y dos afios de vida de la Sociedad Internacional de Musica Contemporanea se han dado a conocer geniales compositores y escuchado obras de extraordinario valor. De ‘tanto valor, que algunas de ellas quedaran incorporadas a los programas tanto de opera, como de «ballet», asi de musica religiosa ‘como de musica sinfónica y de cámara. Ahora bien, algunos compositores quieren ir ya demasiado lejos, tan lejos y tan veloces, que nos permitimos aconsejarles no tengan tanta prisa. Que se contenten por hoy con beneficiarse de la perfección que han alcanzado nuestros instrumentistas y can­tantes para crear sus mensajes.”

(“In the forty-two years of the International Society for Contemporary Music’s existence, brilliant composers have been discovered and works of extraordinary value have been heard. So valuable, in fact, that some of them have been incorporated into programs of opera, ballet, religious music, symphonic music, and chamber music. However, some composers want to go too far, so far and so fast, that we would advise them not to be in such a hurry. Let them be content for now with benefiting from the perfection that our instrumentalists and singers have achieved in order to create their messages.”)

–Francisco Silvela, “Adelante, hacia las nuevas conquistas de la Música,”
Ritmo Issue 354 (June 1965), p. 3 (translated into English using deepl.com).

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