<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jan 20, 2026, at 3:51 PM, Amy Skjerseth <amy.skjerseth@ucr.edu> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div style="text-align:center"><i><font face="arial, sans-serif">2025–2026 Florence <span><span>Bayz</span></span> Music Series</font></i></div><div style="text-align:center"><b><font size="4">Ana Benavides Plays Spanish Piano Classics</font></b></div><div style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Ana Benavides, </span><i style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">piano </i></div><div style="text-align:center"><div style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">January 21, 12–12:50pm, ARTS 157</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;"><span id="m_9223119901118185155m_4402502970196582491gmail-docs-internal-guid-38c13c1f-7fff-ab6c-81d4-946030a80df9"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border:none;display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;width:395px;height:480px"><span id="cid:ii_mklqbiry0"><image.jpeg></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"></span></div><p style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"></p></div></div><div style="text-align:center"><b>Award-winning pianist Ana Benavides has recorded and published unknown piano works mainly from 19th-century Spain. She is Associate Professor at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and a Distinguished Professor at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid (Spain). During this concert, she will perform several works for piano, including <i>Música para un bailete</i> by Joaquín Nin Castellanos (1879–1949); Dr. Benavides discovered this manuscript in UCR Library’s Special Collections–join us for this special world premiere! The program is attached to this email. </b></div></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div><div><div>Spread the word to your students and friends; <span><span>Bayz</span></span> series events are free and open to the public. For more information about the event series, please visit <a href="https://events.ucr.edu/event/ana-benavides?utm_campaign=widget&utm_medium=widget&utm_source=UC+Riverside" target="_blank">https://events.ucr.edu/event/ana-benavides?utm_campaign=widget&utm_medium=widget&utm_source=UC+Riverside</a>. </div><div><br></div><div>See you tomorrow!</div></div><div><div>Amy</div></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif"><b>Dr. Amy Skjerseth</b> (<i>she/her</i>)</font><div>Assistant Professor of Popular Music</div><div>PI, "<a href="https://uchri.org/awards/defying-defaults-in-technology-and-culture/" target="_blank">Defying Defaults in Technology and Culture</a>," UCHRI Multicampus Research Working Group</div><div>University of California, Riverside</div><div><br></div><div><i>I sometimes send emails outside of traditional working hours, but I do not expect a response outside of your own.</i></div></div></div></div></div>
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