682:(1919)... Las bravias continued along the same line, but Alonso later went back to a more traditional zarzuela format with La linda tapada (1924), a work of undoubted quality. The regional zarzuela — Castilian peasants this time — appeared in La Bejarana (1924), from which a number of songs still survive; and in the Murcian zarzuela La Parranda (1928), which has also endured. Still, Alonso's masterwork is La Calesera (1925), which evokes the city of Madrid and popular culture, as well as a wider Spanish feeling, recalling the political battles of the nineteenth century..."
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Tomás Marco - Spanish music in the twentieth century - Page 98 1993 "In a more purposeful way than Luna, Alonso decided to move the zarzuela closer to the revue, a genre he considered more likely than operetta to become acclimated to
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