On the evening of October 4, 2012, Her Majesty Queen Sofia of Spain attended a piano concert entitled, Música Española en Torno a 1812, held at the Real Academia de la Historiato to commemorate the bicentennial of the Constitution of 1812.
Her Majesty, along with dozens of guests, listened to works by José Gallés, Jose Ferrer, Rafael Angles, and Joaquin Asiaín to name a few.
On October 4, 2012, Her Majesty Queen Sofia of Spain held an audience with board members from the Asociación Hispania Nostra (AHN) at Palacio Real de El Pardo in Madrid. The purpose of the AHN, “… is to protect, safeguard and enhance Spanish Cultural Heritage and its environment, in the field of civil society…”
Afterward, Her Majesty presided over the Unión Europea de Patrimonio Cultural/Europa Nostra 2011 and 2012 award ceremony:
“These awards are given annually to recognize and encourage best practice in the conservation of cultural heritage in Spain, stimulate the exchange of knowledge and experiences among all European countries, increase knowledge and appreciation of European cultural heritage exemplify similar initiatives.”
On October 3, 2012 at the Palacio Real de El Pardo, His Majesty King Juan Carlos I of Spain co-chaired the 8th Edition COTEC Europa Conference along with the President of Italy, Mr. Giorgio Napolitano and the President of Portugal, Mr. Aníbal Silva.
The purpose of the COTEC Europa Conference is to “… endorse small and medium businesses and to help improve the competitiveness between the three European countries (Spain, Portugal and Italy) against crisis…”
On October 2, 2012, His Majesty King Juan Carlos I of Spain held an audience with the President of Italy, Mr. Giorgio Napolitano, at Zarzuela Palace in Madrid.
Meanwhile, it was announced by Clarence House that Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall has “… cancelled a series of engagements due to a severe ear infection and sinusitis…” The duchess was due to attend the Classic BRIT Awards held at the Royal Albert Hall in London this evening. Please click here for more information about this breaking news.
On October 2, 2012, Her Majesty Queen Sofia of Spain attended the opening of the new exhibition at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía entitled, Encuentros con los años 30.
“Encuentros con los años 30 addresses this decade of the twentieth century as a turbulent period in which art and power allied and confronted and, on many levels, is key to understanding our own present.
The exhibition presents the artistic production of this period, which was marked both by a growing climate of political violence as the occurrence of major technological innovations, especially in the field of communication and transport, should not only be seen as an extension inertia of the vanguards of the previous two decades and/or relationship, particularly contentious, with propagandistic narratives, but also a time when being questioned and reformulated in which modernity began to generate ideas and objects that challenged the boundaries between disciplines, media and nations.
Addressing the notion of encounter from a thematic perspective, the exhibition examines the role of artistic creation in the thirties played the symbolic and geographical displacement, voluntarily or forced, made the artists of the time. Trying to show how from such movements began to rethink the principles inherited from the avant-garde aesthetic and discursive and narrative strategies that have lasted until today. In turn, the exhibition offers a critical reflection on the use of these artists made the mass media and explores the tensions and relationships they had with the contexts-political, cultural, institutional, in which they worked.
Encuentros con los años 30 is structured in six sections: realism, abstraction international exhibitions surrealism photography, cinema and posters Spain: Second Republic and Civil War exile. And while addressing the influence of the political situation or avoid rivalries that arose between (and within) the major “isms” art of the time, priority is given to the connections between artists and moments of fracture and stylistic eclecticism, highlighting the diversity, complexity and daring art that was made in that decade.”
A clip about the exhibition.
On the morning of October 2, 2012, His Majesty King Juan Carlos I of Spain and His Royal Highness Prince Felipe of Asturias attended V Conferencia de Presidentes to met with “… the autonomous communities and cities participating in the conference…”
Upon their arrival at the Senate building in Madrid, where the conference is being held, His Majesty and Prince Felipe were greeted by the President of the Senate, Mr. Pío García Escudero, and then ushered into the Senate library for a breakfast meeting.
Afterward, the royal duo posed for photos in front of the Plaza de la Marina Española along with those attending the V Conferencia de Presidentes.
On Monday, October 1, 2012, Their Majesties King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofia of Spain along with Their Royal Highnesses Prince Felipe and Princess Letizia of Asturias and Her Royal Highness Infanta Elena presided over the ceremony of laying the Cruz Laureada Colectiva de San Fernando held in front of the Palacio Real de Madrid.
The recipient this year was awarded to:
“… the banner of the Cavalry Battleship, Alcantara No. 10, in recognition of their heroic acts between July 22 and August 9, 1921, when the Regiment gave protection to the withdrawal of Spanish troops from their positions at Annual to Monte Arruit, a deed which killed most of its members (28 of the 32 officers and 523 members of the 685 troops).”
The Cruz Laureada Colectiva de San Fernando is the highest military award in Spain.
Please click here to watch a video.
Source: CDSMR
The Royal Correspondent 
