Next Wednesday, March 4 at 6:30 p.m. Casa Asia and the Spanish Association for Pacific Studies (AEEP) present at the headquarters of the first (Calle Mayor, 69) the conference Day of the Pacific 2026: the music that unites us, on the occasion of the annual commemoration of the first trans-Pacific contact.
At the same time that the music writers managed to close the circle ordering the twelve semitones of the octave -as shown by the work Lux bella by Marcos Durán (Seville, 1492)- the Spanish naos discovered America; and in 1521 they arrived in the Marianas and the Philippines, to complete the first round of a globe that was the scene of constant cultural exchanges. In the waters of the Pacific died Juan Sebastián Elcano in 1526, now 500 years ago.
In these contacts, music played a prominent role as a universal expression linked to both personal life and the social dimension of all cultures.
Pedro Bonet, concert performer and professor of the Pico flute and director of the baroque music group La Folía, will present and exemplify the research that has led him to perform, in the five continents, repertoires that testify to the origins and validity of a musical globalization still present.
Welcoming remarks will be delivered by Elvira Bodi, Coordinator of Programming at Casa Asia-Madrid, and the event will be presented by Rafael Rodríguez-Ponga, president of the Spanish Association for Pacific Studies (AEEP).