Contemporary Classics February 28, 2023 Dale Tsang and Nanette McGuinness, Ensemble for These Times “The Guernica Project

Tonight on Contemporary Classics I have pianist Dale  Tsang and soprano Nanette McGuinness, who are members of the group Ensemble for These Times who have recent released their album “The Guernica Project”.  This musical exploration of the 1937 massacre and conflagration in the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War and Picasso’s monumental response to it was commissioned in 2016 and initially performed in April 2017 to mark the 80th anniversary of this harbinger of the atrocities seen through the remainder of the 20th and into the beginning of the 21st centuries.