Professionals and Amateurs in Acuarelas, a Revista Blanca (revue) from Alfonso XIII’s Madrid
Abstract
In this article I deal with the staging in Madrid of the white musical revue Acuarelas (1930) by the Chilean composer Osmán Pérez Freire, by a company in which professionals and amateurs of aristocratic roots mixed, and Spanish, South American and North American musical practices converged. To reconstruct Acuarelas I rely on chronicles, reviews, and press photographs of the time, on scores published in Chile and on the experience of my own company’s staging of some of its numbers. My intention is to unveil aesthetics of the white amateur musical revue, but also ideologies, interests and destinies of the aristocratic public of Madrid on the eve of the Second Republic. This musical revue allows us to reflect on constructions of otherness, the role of women, the absorption of modernity, and the articulation of musical theater traditions of the early twentieth century.
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