/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/larazon/7GHWRHCDYBBX3M2WGJCXX7J3XQ.jpg "A piano recital to remember the universal José Jiménez Lozano")
The Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Sport pays tribute to the writer and journalist José Jiménez Lozano, died in March 2020, with a concert next Friday 30 September to 19:30 hours on Chamber Hall of the Miguel Delibes Cultural Center in Valladolid, by the Riosecan pianist Diego Fernández Magdaleno.
Tickets for the concert are free, upon collection of the invitation at the ticket offices of the Miguel Delibes Cultural Center, until the required capacity is reached.
The Ministry pays homage to the writer and all his work, cWith a piano recital by the Riosecan pianist Diego Fernández Magdaleno, National Music Award 2010, full member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de la Purísima Concepción and director of the Valladolid Conservatory of Music for four years.
The concert, entitled of “Eight boxes of Cornell. Music for Jiménez Lozano ‘, collects works by Ignatius Adiego, Pedro Aizpurua, Teresa Catalan, Carlos Cruz de Castro, Joaquin Diaz, George Fenton, Carme Fernandez-Vidal, Narcisa Freixas, Francisco Garcia Alvarez, Jesus Legido, Encarnación Lopez de Arenosa, Miguel Manzano, Tomas Marco, Dora Pejaĉević, Max Richter, Wolfgang Rihm and Frederic Wort, some suppose a world premiere and others, also previews, are works written on texts by the author Jiménez Lozano.
José Jiménez Lozano’s work is full of allusions and references that generate a world of their own, immediately recognizable. Pianist Diego Fernández Magdaleno recreated that atmosphere in a program that has become a sort of sound habitat for Jiménez Lozano. Their names, cities and beloved birds pass – or return – from words to music with the naturalness of one who forms a symbiosis of artistic and human intensity that is difficult to achieve.
The writer and journalist José Jiménez Lozano was born in Langa, Ávila in 1930 and died in Alcazaren, Valladolid in 2020. After studying Law, Philosophy and Letters, and Journalism, he worked as editor, deputy director and director of the newspaper ‘El Norte de Castilla’ and has collaborated with several national newspapers, as well as being the author of a significant number of novels , essays, poems and diaries. Among the numerous awards received, in 1988 he was awarded the Castilla y León Prize for letters and a year later the Critics Prize.
In 1992 he obtained the National Prize of Spanish Letters and, in 1999, the Gold Medal of Merit in Fine Arts. In 2002 he was awarded the Miguel de Cervantes Prize for his entire career.
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