It is to show your chest as a city. Friday afternoon. A lot of people come out Cervantes cinema Immediately after, another large group of spectators begins to enter. Those who leave have just seen Aníbal, the architect of Sevillethe documentary directed by Paco Ortiz with production of José Carlos de Isla. Those who enter will see sowing dreamsthe movie that Alfonso Sanchez has directed on the brothers Serafín and Joaquín Álvarez Quintero. Three characters from the 19th century on a street that guards two legacies from that period like gold: the Cervantes cinema itself, which opened its doors in October 1873, the year of the First Republic and the birth of Joaquín Álvarez Quintero, and the San Isidoro Institutewhere the playwrights of Utrera studied and one of the authors they most admired, the poet Gustavo Adolfo Becquer.
Serafín was born in 1871, Joaquín in 1873 and Aníbal González in 1876. Among the playwrights and the architect, the Machados: Manuel was born in 1874, Antonio in 1875. The Seville that literally started in the last quarter of the 19th century. Manuel Machado was also a student at San Isidoro and had to cross paths in its hallways and classrooms with the authors of Malvaloca o The town of women. “No one could invent a city like Seville,” he will say. Arturo Pérez-Reverte in a text that accompanies the script of the film about Aníbal González. The creator of Alatriste is one of the voices that appear in the film about the Quinteros. The architect invented a city. Very close to the Plaza de España there is a roundabout that remembers the Álvarez Quinteros, where many of the works they wrote together appear. They were about to throw in the towel and then the great ladies of Spanish theater wanted to perform their works: Margarita Xirgu, María Guerrero, Pastora Imperio, Catalina Bárcena, Lola Membrives… In 1888, when Serafín was 17 years old and Joaquín was 15, they presented their comic toy at the Cervantes theater-cinema. fencing and love. A nod to one of his father’s hobbies, Joaquín Álvarez Hazañasthe husband of Candelaria Quintero.
On the same Amor de Dios street of the Cervantes cinema where the Álvarez Quinteros debuted as playwrights there is a building by Aníbal González. Another link between both films is that the music in both is by Pablo Cervantes. A period music, of dreams built with the words of playwrights and with the blank paper of an architect’s drawings.
“Gemelismo” theatrical
For the Álvarez Quinteros and their theatrical “twinism” the words that Pablo Gutiérrez-Alviz, director of the Academy of Good Letters, recently spoke about the Machado in the Provincial Council of Burgos in the twinning of the Academy of Good Letters of Seville with the Royal Burgense Academy of History and Fine Arts. “The brothers Manuel and Antonio (Machado) loved and admired each other, they wrote together and no one was the good and the bad.” In both cases, a Quintero (Serafín) and a Machado (Antonio) die in the middle of the civil war. Joaquín and Manuel will die in the postwar period. On February 19, 1938, on this day 86 years ago, Manuel Machado (1874-1947) delivers his entrance speech into the Royal Spanish Academy of Language at the San Telmo Palace in San Sebastián. He titled it Semi-fiction and probability. The session details are given Joaquín Pérez Azaustre in his work The dear brother. The last time she saw his brother Antonio was on July 9, 1936 at the family home in Madrid. The Francoist press criticized his mention of Baudelaire, Rimbaud and Andrew Gide in his speech, “the plethora of satanic poets and cabaret artists of Europe”, as he would say José María Pemán in his response to the speech. Antonio Machado (1875-1939) was nominated for the Academy in 1927, but never read his entrance speech. In the last photo of the Quintero brothers, who were arrested in ’36, they appear with Melchor Rodriguezthe Red Angel, the man from Triana who saved so many lives as general director of Prisons of the Republic.
Alfonso Guerra y Eva Diaz Perez They will be the curators of an exhibition that will open in Seville about the Machado. The former vice president of the Government also intervenes in the documentary about the Quinteros. He talks about that group of friends, among whom was Cernuda, who went to see the play. The backyardone of the most popular of the brothers, with the intention of mocking and the author of Ocnos He came out dazzled. His biographers say that on the day Cernuda died, at his typewriter in his Mexican house Concha Mendez A folio was found with reflections on the Quintero theater. The Antonio Machado bookstore opened by Alfonso Guerra was on Álvarez Quintero Street, where he lived until its closure. Ramon Carandewho was rector of the University of Seville like the grandfather of the Machado family.
The Machado brothers will be the subject of a triple exhibition (Burgos, Madrid, Seville) for 2024 and 2025, 150th anniversary of the respective births of Manuel and Antonio. The one who communed “with Montmarte and with Macarena” and the one who portrayed the “devotees of Frascuelo and María.” Such a commemoration has gone unnoticed in the case of the Álvarez Quintero brothers, with honorable exceptions such as the book From H to E: another look at the Álvarez Quintero brothers (Speeches, Controversies and Tributes)work of Pedro Sánchez Núñez sponsored by Caja Rural de Utrera Foundation.
In the film sowing dreams The discovery of the Quinteros by a quartet of actors is told (Antonia Gómez, Carmen Canivell, Alberto López, Alfonso Sánchez). The envy that his success provoked (Valle-Inclán will say that for the good of the theater they should be shot), the tribute that both will pay to Galdós, the affectionate criticism that he dedicated to them Emilia Pardo Bazán.
The Quinteros were academics long before the Machados. The details of both entries are given by Sánchez Núñez with the data provided by Covadonga de Quintana, director of the Archive of the Royal Academy of Language. Serafín Álvarez Quintero (1871-1938) gave his entrance speech on November 21, 1920. He occupied the H seat that he occupied Segismundo Moret, Cadiz politician who was president of the Government and of the Congress of Deputies. A chair that he had also occupied Alberto List, first director of the San Isidoro Institute where the Quinteros and Manuel Machado studied. Joaquín Álvarez Quintero (1873-1944) will occupy seat E due to the death of Jose Ortega Munilla, journalist, father of Ortega y Gasset. He gave his entrance speech on April 26, 1925. Azorín responded. Niceto Alcalá-Zamorawho six years later would be president of the Second Republic (the second on the Quinteros’ resume) asked the director of the Language Academy, the Cervantista from Osuna, for six invitations. Francisco Rodríguez Marín.
The Quinteros entered the Academy in the decade in which the architect Aníbal González (1876-1929) established himself as a dreamer of Seville, who died a few days after the inauguration of the Ibero-American Exhibition for which he did so much. Their lives intersect these days in the Cervantes cinema thanks to the daring and talent of two teams of young filmmakers aware that the 19th and 21st centuries have the same changed digits. In the film about Hannibal, who had his particular Punic wars, the testimony of his biographer, also an architect, is heard. Victor Perez Escolanoand that of his grandson, Aníbal González Serranocommon thread of history, professional dentistry, which is an interior architecture.
2024-02-19 11:19:28
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