Joan Acocella: Manuel de Falla and the struggle to define Spanish dance. 8220;El Amor Brujo” (“Love, the Magician,” from 1915), a flamenco music drama that will be shown in three performances at Peridance this weekend, was composed by the refined Spaniard Manuel de Falla, but it was meant to coruscate with Gypsy passion. Here is a snatch of . . .
March 14, 2014 - The New Yorker