![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (correspondence folder 6710).Įven though it won first prize from the Academia de Bellas Artes in Madrid, attempts to have La vida breve performed proved fruitless. What you do hear them shouting is “Water from the wells of the Alhambra!” in a tone of voice that’s nearly devotional, and with an accent that’s a bit like a Cuban one 12 Handwritten letter from Antonio Arango to Manuel de Falla, dated 8 September 1904. The fountain you mention is the del Avellano but I don’t think its water is sold by people shouting in the street. the Albaicín, as far as I recall, is a outlying district of the city, and is definitely on a hill As for street-cries, I can hardly remember any. In September 1904, Arango wrote to the composer giving him details that are not always as precise as they might have been: Without ever having been there, Falla decided to set La vida breve in Granada, and so he requested information from his friend Antonio Arango (also from Cádiz), who had visited the city of the Alhambra years before. ![]()
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