7:00 pm Lecture Walter Aaron clark “Los romero: the Saga of an Andalusian Family of Guitarists, Part 2”

8:00 pm concert the romero Guitar Quartet Performs Works from the classical and Flamenco repertoire

Free and open to the public.Though admission is free, a ticket is required. One ticket per person. Tickets are available at the Performance Lab door at 6:00 pm. Seating is limited and on a first-come, first-served basis.

Performance Lab, ArtS 166 Parking: $5 in Lot 1 no fee with UC permit

romero Guitar QuartetA veritable institution in the world of classical

music, the Romero Guitar Quartet has dazzled

countless audiences and won rave reviews

worldwide. During a career spanning fifty-five

years and three generations of guitarists,

October 26, 2012A lecture-demonstration

featuring the

world-renowned

Romero Guitar Quartet

and UCR musicology

professor

Walter Aaron Clark

the Romeros have performed with every major

symphony orchestra in the United States, as

well as at the Hollywood Bowl, the White House,

and the Vatican. They are known to television

audiences through their appearances on the

Tonight and Today Shows as well as on PBS

specials and the PBS telecast of Evening at the Boston Pops. In the words of Spanish composer

Joaquín Rodrigo, “The Romeros have developed

the technique of the guitar by making what is

difficult to be easy; they are, without a doubt,

the grand masters of the guitar.”

Walter Aaron clark Walter Aaron Clark received an M.A. in classical

guitar at UCSD, where he was a student of

Pepe Romero. He subsequently earned a Ph.D.

in musicology from UCLA. He is the author of

books on Spanish composers Isaac Albéniz,

Enrique Granados, and Federico Moreno Torroba,

all published by Oxford University Press. He

is also the editor or co-editor of several books

on Spanish and Latin American music, and he

edits the Oxford series Currents in Latin American

and Iberian Music. He is currently writing a

book about the Romero family.

center for Iberian and Latin American Music (CILAM) was established at the University

of California, Riverside, in 2004 to foster

research and performance in an inter-

disciplinary spirit, embracing the entire

musical heritage of Iberia and Latin America.

The Center’s activities include maintaining an

educational website, www.cilam.ucr.edu;

an online scholarly journal, Diagonal; and

annual Encuentros/ Encounters, featuring

concerts and lectures dealing with a particular

aspect of Iberian or Latin American music.

Walter A. Clark, director

Professor of Musicology

University of California, Riverside

ARTS 145 (951) 827-2114

Encuentros/ Encounters 2012 is made

possible by generous financial support from

the MaryLu Clayton Rosenthal Endowment and

the cooperation of the UCR Departments of

Music and Dance.

INFORMATION: (951) 827-3245 performingarts@ucr.edu www.performingarts.ucr.edu

Encuentros/Encounters 2012

Los Romero: The Saga of an Andalusian Family ofGuitarists