Something to put in your calendar:
Ottmar Liebert + Luna Negra
04 June 2009 – Santa Fe NM – Lensic Theater @ 19:30
Please do not call now – tickets will go on sale in April. I will post relevant links when the tickets go on sale.
Just wanted you to know the date. This concert will sell out, so stay alert, stay focused and wait for the starter pistol. :-)
Monotonous Forest: Ah, live performance
Last night’s fascinating evening of music by Peter Eötvös at Zankel Hall had some unanticipated “extras,” beginning with a particularly startling cell phone going off right before Encore, a brief string quartet written for György Kurtág’s 80th birthday. The woman answered the call. As the musicians waited, the violist tried his best, grinning, “Anyone else?” By this time an usher was glaring at the offender, who apparently didn’t know how to turn off the device. After it beeped the third time, the exasperated staffer finally grabbed it, shook a finger at the woman and left, accompanied by more than a few bursts of applause.
(Via The Rest Is Noise)
And here is another version of the events.
Ottmar Liebert & Luna Negra, page 1 – Music – Houston Press – Houston Press
German native Ottmar Liebert is one of the few flamenco artists who can sell out midsize rooms, but his Houston fans have a rare opportunity to see Liebert and his band Luna Negra a lot closer up. Liebert began his flamenco career at restaurants around Santa Fe, where he still lives, and has become one of the exotic Spanish guitar music’s principal ambassadors; his double-platinum 1990 LP Nouveau Flamenco is the biggest-selling guitar album of all time. Dormant since 2004’s La Semana, Liebert and Luna Negra have released two albums this year: Up Close, recorded live at Liebert’s Santa Fe studio, and Scent of Light, inspired by his travels to places like Tibet, India and Granada. Act fast, though — only 140 tickets will be made available for each show.
Nouveau flamenco guitarist stirs trek through imagination – Houston Chronicle
Ottmar Liebert, nouveau flamenco guitarist and New Age personage, won’t say what inspired the instrumental works on The Scent of Light and Up Close, his newest CDs, or what memories the tracks ignite.He’s not being obstinate. He just wants his listeners to use their imaginations when they hear the music.
Otherwise, he says, he might as well be writing pop songs with lyrics.
Liebert’s publicity material suggests each track reflects a time and place, like the journal of an itinerant poet or painter.
For example, it seems natural to let your imagination conjure dawn over a rugged mountain landscape during the joyous, hypnotic Morning Light, a standout track from The Scent of Light. Liebert visited Kham, Tibet, in 2006, trekking across 15,000-foot mountains for about six weeks.
