MIRÓ & MUSIC

Miró & Music is an attempt to piece together Miró´s relationship tomusic through a journey that covers his early Barcelona days, wheremusic was at the core of life, to the early twentieth-century Pariscultural maelstrom, that saw him blossom as an artist, and, Palma deMallorca, his last Mediterranean enclave, where he lived and worked,and labored away at his extensive and well-stocked library and, in all likelihood, on one of the island´s most eclectic record collections.(Comprehensively published at the end of this book.)

Miró turned his palette to all sorts of musical visions. His workprompt­ly proves it, his musical thirst unquenchable: classical,avant-garde, bal­let, flamenco, contemporary. The entire gamut. In New York it was jazz and gospel, in Barcelona he favored flamenco, and in Paris the rest. This proven passion is similar to that of a stampcollector. So it was with Miró, whose collection includes recordingsof the ´music´ of insects or birds, African and Asian traditionalmusic, Bach, Mozart and all the classics, romantics... You nameit-it´s there. His collaborations with the likes of Varèse, Antheil,Boulez, Stockhausen, Gerhard, Cage and others proved profound in terms of his musical education, as well as the commitment shown by hisdevoted stalwarts, who kept him abreast- and supplied-of all that wasdifferent and original.