Reconnecting with Spanish Modernism -- and The Problem of de Larrocha

From the Unanswered Question at ArtsJournal:

"The defining austerities of Albeniz and Falla were irrelevant to the cushioned readings of Alicia de Larrocha -- one of three reasons we don't know or understand the efflorescence of Spanish modernism in the early 20th century...."

Call me unsophisticated, but I like de Larrocha's interpretation of Albeniz and Falla, to say nothing of her Mozart (I have a Mostly Mozart recording on vinyl) and the piano music of Granados, too. Her death struck me sufficiently--yet another great pianist I will never see in performance--for her to slip into a poem I was writing at the time. I imagined a little pas de deux to one of Grandos's Danzas Espanolas. I've always wanted to write a poem about Granados, specifically, the fact that he died on the Lusitania, but it hasn't come off yet.