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cover: Joan Miro, Head ofa Catalan Peasant, 1924,

National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift ofthe Collectors Committee

The Seventieth Season of

The William Nelson Cromwell and F. Lammot Belin

Concerts

National Gallery ofArt

2,897th Concert

Ignasi Terraza Trio

Ignasi Terraza, piano

Horacio Fumero, bass

Esteve Pi, drums

Presented in honor ofthe exhibition

Joan Miro: The Ladder ofEscape

June 17, 2012

Sunday, 6:30 pm

East Building Auditorium

Admissionfixe
Program

“Seeing Miro with Your Ears”

Original music composed by Ignasi Terraza

Give me Another

Les dotze van tocant (Traditional/Terraza)

Suite Miro

Picture 1

Picture 2

Picture 3

Picture 4 

Picture 5

An Emotional Dance

Oscar’s Will

This concert is sponsored by the Institut Ramon Llull.

The Musicians

IGNASI TERRAZA

Since his first public appearance in 1980, jazz pianist Ignasi Terraza has

played an important role in the Barcelona jazz scene. One ofthe charter

members ofthe Barcelona Jazz Orchestra, he is among the jazz artists most

frequently sought out by American musicians visiting Spain, including

Gene (Mighty Flea) Conners, Jesse Davis, Teddy Edwards, Ralph Lalama,

and Frank Wess as well as singers Ann Hampton Callaway, Dee Daniels,

Randy Greer, Stacey Kent, and Michelle McCain.

Ignasi Terraza concertizes primarily with the members ofhis trio, Horacio 

Fumero and Esteve Pi, who perform with him this evening. Additional trio 

partners have included bassists Pierre Boussaguet, Daryl Hall, and Dimitri

Skidanov and drummers Pierre Derouard, Bobby Durham, Jeff Hamilton,

Alvin Queen, and Jorge Rossy, among others. In 2006 the Ignasi Terraza Trio

toured Asia for the first time, playing in China and the Philippines.

Influenced by Ahmad Jamal, Wynton Kelly, and Oscar Peterson and

rooted in the classic jazz tradition, Terraza is featured in more than a dozen

CDs, including Let Me Tell You Something (1999), Jazz In The Darkness (1999),

It’s Coming (2004), and Plaga Vella and Live at The Living Room, Bangkok

(2011). His 2005 recording In A Sentimental Groove was named Best Jazz

Record of 2006 by the Spanish magazine Jag.

A frequent guest performer at jazz festivals, Terraza has been heard at the

Marciac, Montreux, Ramatuelle, and Ramparts festivals. Winner ofthe 2009

Great American Jazz Piano Competition in Jacksonville, Florida, he joined the

ranks of previous winners Lynne Arriale, Kenny Drew Jr., and Marcus Roberts.

Ignasi Terraza maintains a website at www.ignasiterraza.com.

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HORACIO FUMERO

Recognized by the Spanish newspaper El Mundo for his outstanding career

in music, Argentinian bassist Horacio Fumero currently lives and works in

Barcelona. He began his musical studies at the Conservatorio Manuel de

Falla in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and continued them at the Conservatoire

Superieur de Musique in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1981 he joined the Tete

Montoliu Trio, with whom he played and made recordings until the death of

Montoliu in 1997. Since 1999 Fumero has participated annually in gala 

concerts organized by the Spanish Society ofAuthors (sgae) in memory of

Montoliu. Fumero has also played with Johnny Griffin, Freddie Hubbard,

among many others. Orchestras with which Fumero has performed include

Andres Segovia Chamber Orchestra of Madrid, the Chamber Orchestra of

the Barcelona Teatre Lliure, the Lalo Schiffrin Orchestra Ciutat de Barcelona

(obc), and the Symphonic Orchestra of Granada. Among the many musicians with whom he has performed in duos and trios are Albert Bover, Gery 

Brown, Jessie Davis, Harry “Sweets” Edison, Melva Houston, James Moody,

Joe Newman, Dick Oatts, Andrej Olejniczack, Horace Parian, Danilo Perez,

and Lluis Vidal.

ESTEVE PI

At age nineteen, jazz drummer Esteve Pi began to play with some ofthe

most respected musicians ofthe Spanish jazz scene while a student at

Barcelona’s Taller de Musics. He spent the academic year 2002-2003 in

New York City, taking private lessons with master drummers Joe Farnsworth

and Kenny Washington on a scholarship from the government ofCatalonia.

Engagements in America, Asia, and Europe have brought him together with

many jazz performers, including Harry Allen, Jesse Davies, Benny Green,

Johnny Griffin, Scott Hamilton, Joe Magnarelli, Terrell Stafford, Grant

Stewart, and Phil Woods.

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Program Notes

Presented in honor ofthe exhibition Joan Mird: The Ladder ofEscape, on view 

in the East Building until August 12, this evening’s program celebrates the

artist’s love for jazz and his interaction with jazz musicians. A man of broad

musical tastes, Miro once told an interviewer, when asked what music he

liked: “The classics and swing music both. The classics—Bach, Mozart, 

Beethoven, and the modernists—de Falla, Stravinsky, Ravel, etc.”

Born in Barcelona in 1893, Miro was a loyal Catalonian who supported the

region’s struggle for independence with a mixture of passion and pessimism.

Upon completion ofhis military service in 1919, he retreated to the countryside around Mont-roig, where he painted landscapes. The peace ofthat setting

was arguably the first rung in his personal “ladder of escape.” But the troubled

world around him could not be ignored, and Paris—at the time a hotbed of

artistic activity and innovative political thought—beckoned. In 1920 Miro

moved to Paris, where the French art world took an immediate liking to two

ofthe paintings he had brought with him, both completed the year before. 

Self-Portrait and Mont-roig, the Church and the Village were first displayed in

the Catalan section ofthe Salon d’Automne and subsequently in an exhibition

at the Galeries Dalmau in Barcelona. The artist continued to interact with

musicians and composers throughout his life, particularly as he was drawn

into the circle created by the Ballets Russes in Paris, which in the 1920s

included the director Serge Diaghilev, dancers George Balanchine and Bronislava Nijinska, composers Francis Poulenc, Erik Satie, and Igor Stravinsky,

and fellow artists Max Ernst and Pablo Picasso.

Miro and Ernst collaborated on the set design for the 1927 Ballets

Russes production of Romeo and Juliet. Ernst painted curtains representing

day and night and Miro painted a front cloth. For the first scene, set in a

rehearsal studio, Miro scattered everyday objects, including screens and a

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pink dressing gown. Hard-core surrealists, who considered the collaboration

to be a sell-out on the part oftwo oftheir former heroes, staged a protest at

the opening in Paris. The composer who Diaghilev had commissioned for

the project, Constant Lambert, was a young newcomer at the time, but she 

did not hesitate to express an opinion about the set designers. In a letter to

her mother she opined: “[They are] tenth-rate painters from an imbecile 

group called the Surrealistes.”

About his approach to art, Ignasi Terraza writes: “As a blind person who

lost his sight at the age of nine, I can remember colors and perspectives,

and I have a visual conception ofspace. In some museums there are special

audio guides for blind people. In those guides the information is a description ofthe painting that allows the blind person to build an inner image of

it. I invite the audience to undertake the same exercise that I undertake—to

imagine the picture, based on the description, and then listen to a musical

composition inspired by this inner image. This is the approach I have taken 

to present the composition Miro Suite.”

In addition to Miro Suite, tonight’s program includes a traditional Catalan

folk song and some original compositions by Ignasi Terraza, created for the 

Trio’s recent recording “Live at the Living Room, Bangkok.”

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Upcoming Concerts at the National Gallery ofArt

Leslie Amper, pianist

Presented in honor of George Bellows

Sunday, June 24, 2012

Cine-concert at 4:00 pm, featuring music from

the silent film, The New York Hat

Concert at 6:30 pm, featuring music by

Gershwin, MacDowell, and other composers

East Building Auditorium

New York Opera Society

Music by Catalan composers

Presented in honor ofJoan Miro: The Ladder ofEscape

July 1, 2012

Sunday, 6:30 pm

West Building, West Garden Court 

Last concert ofthe 2011-2012 season. 

Concerts resume on September 5, 2012.