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|"Lament for the death of a Bullfighter" ({{lang-es|Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías|link=no}})
|A García Lorca poem set to music, recorded by the conductor [[Ataúlfo Argenta]].
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|''[[Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time]]''
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|A spoken-word poetry album featuring translated renditions of García Lorca's poems "Gacela of the Dark Death" and "Casida of the Lament".
|A spoken-word poetry album featuring translated renditions of García Lorca's poems "Gacela of the Dark Death" and "Casida of the Lament".
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|[[Ann Loomis Silsbee]]
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|1976
|"Huit Chants en Brun"
|Several of García Lorca’s poems set to music.
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|[[Tim Buckley]]
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|[[Lorca (album)|''Lorca'']]
|Experimental album including a song of the same name.
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|[[Conrad Susa]] <small>(composer, co-librettist)</small><br/>Richard Street<!-- @TODO: [[Richard Street]]? --> <small>(co-librettist)</small>
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|1984
|"The Love of Don Perlimplin"
|One-act opera based on Lorca's play ''[[The Love of Don Perlimplín and Belisa in the Garden]]''. It was commissioned by the Pepsico Summerfare and premiered at the State University of New York at Purchase.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/09/12/specials/lorca-don.html |title='Opera: World Premiere of 'Love of Don Perlimplin' |publisher=New York Times (archive) |date=4 August 1984 |access-date= 20 February 2021}}</ref> The music is published by E.C. Schirmer Music Company.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.ecspublishing.com/the-love-of-don-perlimplin-piano-vocal-score-1.html |title='The Love of Don Perlimplin' (Piano/Vocal Score) |publisher=ECS Publishing Group |access-date=20 February 2021}}</ref> In 1987, Susa completed "Landscapes and Silly Songs" for SATB unaccompanied chorus. The work was commissioned by the Concert Chorale of Houston and is published by E.C. Schirmer Music Company.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.ecspublishing.com/landscapes-and-silly-songs-complete-choral-score.html |title='Landscapes and Silly Songs' (Complete Vocal Score) |publisher=ECS Publishing Group |access-date=20 February 2021}}</ref><!-- @TODO: relevance? -->
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|''Poetas En Nueva York (Poets in New York)''
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|1986
|[[Leonard Cohen]]<br/>[[Paco de Lucía]]<br/>and others
|Tribute album.<ref>{{discogs master|102543|Poetas En Nueva York (Poets in New York)}}</ref>
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|Leonard Cohen
|English
|1986
|[[Take This Waltz (song)|Take This Waltz]]
|English translation of García Lorca's poem "Pequeño vals vienés". It reached number one on the Spanish single charts. Cohen has described García Lorca as being his idol in his youth, and named his daughter Lorca Cohen for that reason.<ref>{{cite web |last=de Lisle |first=Tim |url=http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/timdelisle.html |title=Hallelujah: 70 things about Leonard Cohen at 70 |date=2004 |access-date=March 21, 2021}}</ref>
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|[[Mikis Theodorakis]]
|Greek
|1967
|''Romancero Gitano''
|[[Odysseas Elytis]]'s 1945 Greek translation of seven poems from García Lorca's [[Romancero gitano|poetry collection of the same name]], set to music by Theodorakis. This work was premiered in Rome in 1970 under the same title. In 1981, under commission of the [[Komische Oper Berlin]], the composition was orchestrated as a symphonic work entitled ''Lorca''. In the mid-1990s, Theodorakis rearranged the work as an instrumental piece for guitar and symphony orchestra.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://en.mikis-theodorakis.net/index.php/article/articleview/283/1/46/ |title=Composition review Article by Andreas Brandes 11 August 2004 |date=30 October 1998 |publisher=En.mikis-theodorakis.net |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305171558/http://en.mikis-theodorakis.net/index.php/article/articleview/283/1/46/ |archive-date=5 March 2012 |access-date=14 August 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mikis-theodorakis.net/lorca-e1.htm |title=Gail Holst composition review article |publisher=Mikis-theodorakis.net |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120220043248/http://www.mikis-theodorakis.net/lorca-e1.htm |archive-date=20 February 2012 |access-date=14 August 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://romanos.mikistheodorakis.gr/work/work_en.htm |title=Detail on Theodorakis' works |website=Editions Romanos |access-date=March 21, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071026015257/http://romanos.mikistheodorakis.gr/work/work_en.htm |archive-date=26 October 2007}}</ref>
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|[[Zülfü Livaneli]]
|Turkish
|1986
|"Atlı"
|Song from the album ''Zor Yıllar'', using a Turkish translation of Lorca's "Canción del Jinete" by [[Melih Cevdet Anday]] and [[Sabahattin Eyüboğlu]].
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|[[Ben Sidran]]
|''(instrumental)''
|1998
|''[[The Concert for García Lorca]]''
|Performed on piano at García Lorca's home, Huerta de San Vicente, on the 100th anniversary of his birth.
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|[[Geoffrey Gordon (composer)|Geoffrey Gordon]]
|''(instrumental)''
|2000
|''Lorca Musica per cello solo''
|Piece using themes from Gordon's 1995 three-act ballet ''The House of Bernarda Alba'', for American cellist Elizabeth Morrow.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C9_mP_17hw | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211104/4C9_mP_17hw| archive-date=2021-11-04 | url-status=live|title=Lorca Musica per cello solo |date=20 June 2009 |publisher=YouTube |access-date=14 August 2012}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The work was recorded on Morrow's ''Soliloquy'' CD on the Centaur label and was featured at the 2000 World Cello Congress. Three suites from the ballet, for chamber orchestra, have also been extracted from the ballet score by the composer.
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|[[The Clash]]
|English
|1979
|"[[Spanish Bombs]]"
|Song from the album ''[[London Calling]]'', referencing García Lorca.
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* In 1975, American composer [[Ann Loomis Silsbee]] set Garcia Lorca’s poems to music in her composition “Huit Chants en Brun.”
* American experimental folk-jazz musician [[Tim Buckley]] released an album called [[Lorca (album)|''Lorca'']] which included a song of the same name.
* In 1984, [[Conrad Susa]] wrote "The Love of Don Perlimplin", a one-act opera (libretto by Susa and Richard Street) based on Lorca's play. It was commissioned by the Pepsico Summerfare and premiered at the State University of New York at Purchase.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/09/12/specials/lorca-don.html |title='Opera: World Premiere of 'Love of Don Perlimplin' |publisher=New York Times (archive) |date=4 August 1984 |access-date= 20 February 2021}}</ref> The music is published by E.C. Schirmer Music Company.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.ecspublishing.com/the-love-of-don-perlimplin-piano-vocal-score-1.html |title='The Love of Don Perlimplin' (Piano/Vocal Score) |publisher=ECS Publishing Group |access-date=20 February 2021}}</ref> In 1987, Susa completed "Landscapes and Silly Songs" for SATB unaccompanied chorus. The work was commissioned by the Concert Chorale of Houston and is published by E.C. Schirmer Music Company.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.ecspublishing.com/landscapes-and-silly-songs-complete-choral-score.html |title='Landscapes and Silly Songs' (Complete Vocal Score) |publisher=ECS Publishing Group |access-date=20 February 2021}}</ref>
* In 1986, CBS Records released the tribute album ''Poetas En Nueva York (Poets in New York)'', including performances by [[Leonard Cohen]], [[Paco de Lucía]].<ref>{{discogs master|102543|Poetas En Nueva York (Poets in New York)}}</ref>
*In 1986 Leonard Cohen's English translation of the poem ''Pequeño vals vienés'' by García Lorca reached No. 1 in the Spanish single charts (as ''[[Take This Waltz (song)|Take This Waltz]]'', music by Cohen). Cohen has described García Lorca as being his idol in his youth, and named his daughter Lorca Cohen for that reason.<ref>{{cite web |last=de Lisle |first=Tim |url=http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/timdelisle.html |title=Hallelujah: 70 things about Leonard Cohen at 70 |date=2004 |access-date=March 21, 2021}}</ref>
* In 1967, composer [[Mikis Theodorakis]] set to music seven poems of the ''Romancero Gitano'' translated into Greek by [[Odysseas Elytis]] in 1945. This work was premiered in Rome in 1970 under the same title. In 1981, under commission of the [[Komische Oper Berlin]], the composition was orchestrated as a symphonic work entitled ''Lorca''. In the mid-1990s, [[Mikis Theodorakis|Theodorakis]] rearranged the work as an instrumental piece for guitar and symphony orchestra.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://en.mikis-theodorakis.net/index.php/article/articleview/283/1/46/ |title=Composition review Article by Andreas Brandes 11 August 2004 |date=30 October 1998 |publisher=En.mikis-theodorakis.net |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305171558/http://en.mikis-theodorakis.net/index.php/article/articleview/283/1/46/ |archive-date=5 March 2012 |access-date=14 August 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mikis-theodorakis.net/lorca-e1.htm |title=Gail Holst composition review article |publisher=Mikis-theodorakis.net |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120220043248/http://www.mikis-theodorakis.net/lorca-e1.htm |archive-date=20 February 2012 |access-date=14 August 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://romanos.mikistheodorakis.gr/work/work_en.htm |title=Detail on Theodorakis' works |website=Editions Romanos |access-date=March 21, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071026015257/http://romanos.mikistheodorakis.gr/work/work_en.htm |archive-date=26 October 2007}}</ref>
* In 1986, Turkish composer [[Zülfü Livaneli]] composed the song ''Atlı'' in the album ''Zor Yıllar'', using a Turkish translation of Lorca's ''Canción del Jinete'' by [[Melih Cevdet Anday]] and [[Sabahattin Eyüboğlu]].
* 1n 1998, on the 100th anniversary of his birth, pianist [[Ben Sidran]] performed ''[[The Concert for García Lorca]]'' at García Lorca's home, Huerta de San Vicente, on his piano.
* American composer [[Geoffrey Gordon (composer)|Geoffrey Gordon]] composed ''Lorca Musica per cello solo'' (2000), utilizing themes from his 1995 three-act ballet ''The House of Bernarda Alba'' (1995), for American cellist Elizabeth Morrow.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C9_mP_17hw | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211104/4C9_mP_17hw| archive-date=2021-11-04 | url-status=live|title=Lorca Musica per cello solo |date=20 June 2009 |publisher=YouTube |access-date=14 August 2012}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The work was recorded on Morrow's ''Soliloquy'' CD on the Centaur label and was featured at the 2000 World Cello Congress. Three suites from the ballet, for chamber orchestra, have also been extracted from the ballet score by the composer.
* Lorca was referenced in the song "[[Spanish Bombs]]" by English punk rock band [[The Clash]] on their 1979 album, ''[[London Calling]]''.
* The Spanish guitarist [[José María Gallardo Del Rey]] composed his 'Lorca Suite' in 2003 as a tribute to the poet. Taking Lorca's folksong compilations ''Canciones Españolas Antiguas'' as his starting point, [[José María Gallardo Del Rey]] adds the colour and passion of his native Andalucia, incorporating new harmonisations and freely composed link passages that fuse classical and flamenco techniques.
* The Spanish guitarist [[José María Gallardo Del Rey]] composed his 'Lorca Suite' in 2003 as a tribute to the poet. Taking Lorca's folksong compilations ''Canciones Españolas Antiguas'' as his starting point, [[José María Gallardo Del Rey]] adds the colour and passion of his native Andalucia, incorporating new harmonisations and freely composed link passages that fuse classical and flamenco techniques.
* Catalán composer [[Joan Albert Amargós]] wrote ''Homenatje a Lorca'' for alto saxophone in piano. Its three movements are based on three Lorca poems: "Los cuatro muleros, Zorongo, and Anda jaleo".
* Catalán composer [[Joan Albert Amargós]] wrote ''Homenatje a Lorca'' for alto saxophone in piano. Its three movements are based on three Lorca poems: "Los cuatro muleros, Zorongo, and Anda jaleo".

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A number of works have been based on, have been inspired by, or have alluded to the works of Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca.

Poetry

Poet Language Year Work Description
Pablo Neruda Spanish 1934 "Ode to Federico García Lorca" (Template:Lang-es)[1] A poem written before García Lorca's death by his friend Neruda.[2] Frederick Luis Aldama describes Neruda's narrator as exhibiting "more personalized, even stereotypically bourgeois, form of homosexuality" in his words to García Lorca.[3]
Antonio Machado Spanish 1936 "The Crime Was in Grenada" (Template:Lang-es) An elegy written almost immediately after García Lorca's murder and published two months later.[4]
Luis Cernuda Spanish 1937 "To a Dead Poet (F.G.L.)" (Template:Lang-es) An elegy by a fellow member of the Generation of '27.[5]
Miklós Radnóti Hungarian 1937 "Federico García Lorca" A poem.[6]
Óscar Castro Zúñiga Spanish 1938 "Response to García Lorca" (Template:Lang-es) A poem memorialising García Lorca.[7] Set to music by Ariel Arancibia on the LP Homenaje a Óscar Castro.[8][9]
Nikos Kavvadias Greek 1945 "Federico García Lorca" A poem connecting García Lorca to contemporary events in both Spain and Greece.[10]
Edwin Rolfe Spanish 1948 "To Federico García Lorca" (Template:Lang-es) Spanish Civil War poem that characterizes Lorca as having ″recognized your [his] assassins,″ whom Rolfe derides as ″The men with the patent-leather hats and souls of patent-leather.″[11]
Robert Creeley English 1952 "After Lorca" A poem.[12]
Allen Ginsberg English 1955 "A Supermarket in California" A poem mentioning García Lorca, as well as Walt Whitman.[13]
Bob Kaufman English 1956–1963 "Lorca" Three poems about García Lorca, published together in the collection The Ancient Rain.[14] In the poem "The Ancient Rain", Kaufman compares Lorca to Crispus Attucks, a man of African and Native American descent who was the first person killed in the American Revolution.[15]
1973–1978 "The Ancient Rain"
"[THE NIGHT THAT LORCA COMES]"
Jack Spicer English 1957[16] After Lorca A book of poems containing 33 translations of García Lorca poems, 10 of them in fact by Spicer, as well as an introduction ostensibly by Lorca.[17]
Nikos Engonopoulos Greek 1957 "News on the death of Spanish poet Federico García Lorca on 19 August 1936 in the ditch of Camino de la Fuente"[a] (Template:Lang-el) A poem described by Demetra Demetriou as showing "a highly ironic temper".[19]
Jerome Rothenberg
Robert Kelly
Robert Bly
English 1961 Deep image A poetic form inspired by García Lorca's "deep song".[20][21]
Yevgeni Yevtushenko Russian 1969 "When They Murdered Lorca" (Template:Lang-ru) An elegy that Lynn Purkey compares to "El Crimen Fue en Granada", highlighting its political overtones.[22] It portrays Lorca as being akin to Don Quixote—an immortal symbol of one's devotion to his ideals and perpetual struggle for them.[citation needed]
Harold Norse English 1973 "We Bumped Off Your Friend the Poet" Inspired by a review of Ian Gibson's Death of Lorca. The poem first appeared in Hotel Nirvana,[23] and later in In the Hub of the Fiery Force, Collected Poems of Harold Norse 1934–2003.[24]
Thanh Thảo Vietnamese 1985 "The Guitar of Lorca" (Template:Lang-vi) A poem expressing Thanh Thảo's admiration for García Lorca.[25] Set to music by Thanh Tùng.[26]

Novels

Author Language Year Work Description
Giannina Braschi English
Spanish
Spanglish
1998 Yo-Yo Boing! A novel featuring a dinner party debate among Latin American poets and artists about Lorca's genius compared to other Spanish language poets.[27][verification needed]
Nicole Krauss English 2010 Great House A novel about four owners of a desk allegedly once owned by García Lorca.[28]

Musical works

Author Language Year Work Description
Francis Poulenc 1943 Violin Sonata Dedicated to Lorca's memory, and quoting (in French) the first line of his poem "The Six Strings" (Template:Lang-es): "The guitar makes dreams weep" - at the head of the second movement.
1947 "Trois chansons de F Garcia Lorca"
Heitor Villa-Lobos Spanish 1955 Yerma Opera based on the original Spanish text of Lorca's homonimous play. The opera was premiered at the Santa Fe Opera in 1971, with Mirna Lacambra singing the title role.
Marjo Tal Set several of Lorca’s works to music.
Stavros Xarchakos Wrote a large piece, a symphonic poem, a lament, with a complete Llanto por Ignatio Sanchez Mejias by Lorca.
Camarón de la Isla Spanish La leyenda del tiempo Contains lyrics written by or based on works by Lorca and much of the album is about his legacy.
Silvestre Revueltas 1937 Homenaje a Federico García Lorca A three- movement work for chamber orchestra composed shortly after García Lorca's death, performing the work in Spain during 1937.[29]
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Romencero Gitano for Mixed Choir and Guitar, Op. 152 Based on poems from Poema del Cante Jondo.
Luigi Nono 1951–1953 Tre epitaffi per Federico García Lorca
  • España en el corazón
  • Y su sangre ya viene cantando
  • Memento: romance de la guardia civil española
1954 Il mantello rosso A three-act ballet titled with an argument taken from García Lorca.
George Crumb Ancient Voices of Children
Madrigals Four books for soprano and various instruments including: piccolo, flute, alto flute, harp, vibraphone, percussion, and contrabass, utilizes for its text twelve short segments of Lorca's poetry.
Makrokosmos.
Osvaldo Golijov (composer)
David Henry Hwang (playwright)
Ainadamar ("Fountain of Tears") One-act opera about the death of García Lorca, recalled years later by his friend the actress Margarita Xirgu, who could not save him. It opened in 2003, with a revised version in 2005. A recording of the work released in 2006 on the Deutsche Grammophon label (Catalog #642902) won the 2007 Grammy awards for Best Classical Contemporary Composition and Best Opera Recording.
Einojuhani Rautavaara 1972 "Lorca Suite" (Template:Lang-et) Works for a mixed choir with lyrics of García Lorca's various poems
1993 "Song of our time" (Template:Lang-es)
The Pogues English "Lorca's Novena" A song on the album Hell's Ditch dramatically retelling the story of García Lorca's murder.
Ananda Sukarlan Two of the "Four Spanish Songs" Based on the poems "Oda a Salvador Dali" and "Las Seis Cuerdas", premiered by soprano Mariska Setiawan in 2016 accompanied on the piano by the composer.
Dave Soldier English Portents of Love Adapted multiple Lorca poems to country blues songs in idiomatic English in the Kropotkins' album, which features a hand drawing of Lorca's face on the cover.
Reginald Smith Brindle 1975 "Four Poems of Garcia Lorca" Two songs, the latter for guitar, based on two Lorca poems Adivinanza de la Guitarra and Las Seis Cuerdas[30]
1982 "El Polifemo de Oro"
Dmitri Shostakovich First two movements of Symphony No. 14 Based around García Lorca poems.
Maurice Ohana 1950s "Lament for the death of a Bullfighter" (Template:Lang-es) García Lorca poem set to music, recorded by the conductor Ataúlfo Argenta.
Marea "Ciudad de los Gitanos" A rock version of the poem "Romance de la Guardia Civil española".
Wilhelm Killmayer 1954 Romanzen Song cycle using five García Lorca poems.[31]
Wolfgang Fortner German 1957 Bluthochzeit An opera adapted from García Lorca's Blood Wedding, using a translation by Enrique Beck
Iván Erőd 1960 La doncella, el marinero y el estudiante A short opera of 15 minutes based almost exclusively on serial techniques, premiered in Innsbruck
Sándor Szokolay 1964 Vérnász Another opera adapted from Blood Wedding, first produced in Budapest.
Joan Baez English 1968 Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time A spoken-word poetry album featuring translated renditions of García Lorca's poems "Gacela of the Dark Death" and "Casida of the Lament".
Ann Loomis Silsbee 1976 "Huit Chants en Brun" Several of García Lorca’s poems set to music.
Tim Buckley Lorca Experimental album including a song of the same name.
Conrad Susa (composer, co-librettist)
Richard Street (co-librettist)
1984 "The Love of Don Perlimplin" One-act opera based on Lorca's play The Love of Don Perlimplín and Belisa in the Garden. It was commissioned by the Pepsico Summerfare and premiered at the State University of New York at Purchase.[32] The music is published by E.C. Schirmer Music Company.[33] In 1987, Susa completed "Landscapes and Silly Songs" for SATB unaccompanied chorus. The work was commissioned by the Concert Chorale of Houston and is published by E.C. Schirmer Music Company.[34]
Poetas En Nueva York (Poets in New York) 1986 Leonard Cohen
Paco de Lucía
and others
Tribute album.[35]
Leonard Cohen English 1986 Take This Waltz English translation of García Lorca's poem "Pequeño vals vienés". It reached number one on the Spanish single charts. Cohen has described García Lorca as being his idol in his youth, and named his daughter Lorca Cohen for that reason.[36]
Mikis Theodorakis Greek 1967 Romancero Gitano Odysseas Elytis's 1945 Greek translation of seven poems from García Lorca's poetry collection of the same name, set to music by Theodorakis. This work was premiered in Rome in 1970 under the same title. In 1981, under commission of the Komische Oper Berlin, the composition was orchestrated as a symphonic work entitled Lorca. In the mid-1990s, Theodorakis rearranged the work as an instrumental piece for guitar and symphony orchestra.[37][38][39]
Zülfü Livaneli Turkish 1986 "Atlı" Song from the album Zor Yıllar, using a Turkish translation of Lorca's "Canción del Jinete" by Melih Cevdet Anday and Sabahattin Eyüboğlu.
Ben Sidran (instrumental) 1998 The Concert for García Lorca Performed on piano at García Lorca's home, Huerta de San Vicente, on the 100th anniversary of his birth.
Geoffrey Gordon (instrumental) 2000 Lorca Musica per cello solo Piece using themes from Gordon's 1995 three-act ballet The House of Bernarda Alba, for American cellist Elizabeth Morrow.[40] The work was recorded on Morrow's Soliloquy CD on the Centaur label and was featured at the 2000 World Cello Congress. Three suites from the ballet, for chamber orchestra, have also been extracted from the ballet score by the composer.
The Clash English 1979 "Spanish Bombs" Song from the album London Calling, referencing García Lorca.
  • The Spanish guitarist José María Gallardo Del Rey composed his 'Lorca Suite' in 2003 as a tribute to the poet. Taking Lorca's folksong compilations Canciones Españolas Antiguas as his starting point, José María Gallardo Del Rey adds the colour and passion of his native Andalucia, incorporating new harmonisations and freely composed link passages that fuse classical and flamenco techniques.
  • Catalán composer Joan Albert Amargós wrote Homenatje a Lorca for alto saxophone in piano. Its three movements are based on three Lorca poems: "Los cuatro muleros, Zorongo, and Anda jaleo".
  • Greek musician Thanasis Papakonstantinou composed Άυπνη Πόλη with part of Lorca's "Poeta en Nueva York", translated to Greek by Maria Efstathiadi.
  • Catalán composer Joan Albert Amargós wrote Homenatje a Lorca for alto saxophone in piano. Its three movements are based on three Lorca poems: "Los cuatro muleros, Zorongo, and Anda jaleo".
  • Argentine composer Roberto García Morillo composed Cantata No. 11 (Homenaje a García Lorca), 1988–89.
  • In 2000 a Greek rock group ONAR composed a song based on Lorca's poem " La balada del agua del mar". Teresa Salgueiro from a Portuguese musical ensemble called Madredeus participates reading the poem during the song.
  • Ukrainian composer Tamara Maliukova Sidorenko (1919-2005) set several of Garcia Lorca’s poems to music.
  • British composer Simon Holt has set Lorca's words to music in Ballad of the Black Sorrow, for five solo singers and instrumental ensemble, and Canciones, for mezzo-soprano and instrumental ensemble. His opera The Nightingale's to Blame is based on Lorca's Amor de don Perlimplín con Belisa en su jardín.

Theatre, film and television

  • Federico García Lorca: A Murder in Granada (1976) directed by Humberto López y Guerra and produced by the Swedish Television. In October 1980 the New York Times described the transmission of the film by Spanish Television in June that same year as attracting "one of the largest audiences in the history of Spanish Television".[41]
  • Playwright Nilo Cruz wrote the surrealistic drama Lorca in a Green Dress about the life, death, and imagined afterlife of García Lorca. The play was first performed in 2003 at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. The Cruz play Beauty of the Father (2010) also features Lorca's ghost as a key character.[42]
  • British playwright Peter Straughan wrote a play (later adapted as a radio play) based on García Lorca's life, The Ghost of Federico Garcia Lorca Which Can Also Be Used as a Table.
  • TVE broadcast a six-hour mini-series based on key episodes on García Lorca's life in 1987. British actor Nickolas Grace played the poet, although he was dubbed by a Spanish actor.
  • Rukmavati Ki Haveli (1991) an Indian feature film directed by Govind Nihalani is based on Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba.
  • There is a 1997 film called The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca, also known as Death in Granada, based on a biography by Ian Gibson. The film earned an Imagen Award for best film.
  • Miguel Hermoso's La luz prodigiosa (The End of a Mystery) is a Spanish film based on Fernando Macías' novel with the same name, which examines what might have happened if García Lorca had survived his execution at the outset of the Spanish Civil War.
  • British Screenwriter Philippa Goslett was inspired by García Lorca's close friendship with Salvador Dalí. The resulting biographical film Little Ashes (2009) depicts the relationship in the 1920s and 1930s between García Lorca, Dalí, and Luis Buñuel.[43]
  • American playwright Michael Bradford drama, Olives and Blood, produced by Neighborhood Productions at The HERE Art Center/Theatre, June 2012, focuses on the present day trouble one of the supposed murderers of Lorca.
  • Blood Wedding is the first part of a ballet / flamenco film trilogy directed by Carlos Saura and starring Antonio Gades and Cristina Hoyos (1981).
  • In a segment of the 2001 animated avant-garde film Waking Life, Timothy Levitch extemporizes on Lorca's poem Sleepless City (Brooklyn Bridge Nocturne).

Notes

  1. ^ Title originally misprinted as "News about the Death of the Spanish Poet Federico Garcia Lorca on the 19th of August 1936 in a Ditch of Caminonte La Fuente"[18]

References

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