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Family concert: “The architect of glass”
08/10/2023 / 10:30 - 12:00
As a tribute to the figure of Velázquez Bosco and the music that was heard in the Madrid of his time, the festival «Retiro Sound. Piano, jazz and varietés in the Madrid of Velázquez Bosco” offers a series of open-air concerts in a unique setting: the complex of the Velázquez Palace, the Crystal Palace and the Retiro Park pond, an outstanding work of the architect Velázquez Bosco.
The curtain opens: a handful of musicians loaded with trumpets, clarinets, bass drums… and even a typical Madrid organ! The setting: a pond with a huge jet in the center, a grotto and an incredible palace… made of glass. Wait: glass? But what architect would come up with such an idea?! Boys and girls: with all of you… Ricardo Velázquez Bosco, the architect who built with glass!
Whatever Jazz Band / Fernando Palacios, script and presentation. For this occasion, Whatever Jazz Band has made arrangements of Spanish music from the time of Velázquez Bosco.
About Whatever Jazz Band:
Ornella Marconi, voice
Marcos Prieto, clarinet
Anxo Martínez, trumpet and cornet
Giorgio Gallina, trombone
Daniel Cabrera, guitar and banjo
Benjamín Groisman, double bass
Andrés Freites, drums and washboard
As a tribute to the figure of Velázquez Bosco and the music that was heard in the Madrid of his time, the festival «Retiro Sound. Piano, jazz and varietés in the Madrid of Velázquez Bosco” offers a series of open-air concerts in a unique setting: the complex of the Velázquez Palace, the Crystal Palace and the Retiro Park pond, an outstanding work of the architect Velázquez Bosco.
The curtain opens: a handful of musicians loaded with trumpets, clarinets, bass drums… and even a typical Madrid organ! The setting: a pond with a huge jet in the center, a grotto and an incredible palace… made of glass. Wait: glass? But what architect would come up with such an idea?! Boys and girls: with all of you… Ricardo Velázquez Bosco, the architect who built with glass!
Whatever Jazz Band / Fernando Palacios, script and presentation. For this occasion, Whatever Jazz Band has made arrangements of Spanish music from the time of Velázquez Bosco.
About Whatever Jazz Band:
Ornella Marconi, voice
Marcos Prieto, clarinet
Anxo Martínez, trumpet and cornet
Giorgio Gallina, trombone
Daniel Cabrera, guitar and banjo
Benjamín Groisman, double bass
Andrés Freites, drums and washboard