Vicente Molina Foix: “Luis gave me the chance to make a dream come true”. The press conference to present the world premiere of El abrecartas [The Letter Opener], the sixth opera by Luis de Pablo, who died last October, took place yesterday, Thursday, in the Gayarre Hall of the Teatro…

Vicente Molina Foix: «Este estreno era uno de los grandes sueños de Luis de Pablo». El abrecartas [The letter opener] is one of the best-known novels by the novelist, poet, playwright and film critic Vicente Molina Foix (Elche, Alicante, 1946). It is a novel that, like a fresco, traces the…

Santi Quintans: “I liked everything about Reich”. 3 October 2021 marked Steve Reich’s 85th birthday. To commemorate the occasion, the record label Megadiscs Classics released the album Guitar Hero. Santiago Quintans Plays Steve Reich, in which the Spanish guitarist and composer Santiago Quintans (Vigo, 1975) performed his own versions of…

Eduardo Polonio: “In 1969 I was already making repetitive or minimal music”. On 20 August 1988 I published the following interview with Eduardo Polonio (Madrid, 1981) in the newspaper Ya, to which I was a regular contributor between 1985 and 1991. The opera to which he alludes was neither finally…

Luis de Pablo: “I compose because it is necessary for my balance”. In February 1985, a few days after Luis de Pablo’s 55th birthday, and when I was just a novice journalist who had just started writing for what was to be a brief career at the newspaper Liberación, I…

Ólafur Arnalds: “Good music is good music, no matter the genre”. On 12 March 2019 Ólafur Arnalds performed in Madrid at the Teatro Nuevo Apolo. Some few days before the concert, Metrópoli, the Friday supplement of the newspaper El Mundo, published this brief interview conducted by telephone. A little less…

Ludovico Einaudi: “I like rock’n’roll and Mozart or Stockhausen equally”. On 14 September 2017 Ludovico Einaudi performed in Madrid at the Palacio de Vistalegre, which was completely full for his performance. In fact, there was a very long queue of cars queuing to park at the arena, which stretched as…

Joep Beving: “I use the vertical, because its sound matches my music better than a grand”. The Dutch composer and pianist Joep Beving (Doetinchem, 9 January 1976) performed on 23 and 24 November in Spain, first at Barts in Barcelona and then at the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid. These were…

Lubomyr Melnyk: “Classical music is mankind’s greatest achievement”. In January 2019 I requested an email interview with the Canadian composer and pianist Lubomyr Melnyk through the communications agency for Spain of the German label Erased Tapes. He had just released his album Fallen Trees and was about to embark on…