(By Sergio Arboleya, special envoy). Last night, on the penultimate evening of the 20th Rosario Meeting at the Teatro del Parque España, the so often beaten border between popular and academic music had a fertile aesthetic bond with a focus on the concert “Argentine Music for Strings” that brought together the Orchestra de Cámara Municipal with artists of the song, but also with the opening set by Lilián Saba and Marcelo Chiodi.
From end to end of a 100-minute night, beauty, sensitivity and testimony came together beyond formations and styles to add another daring gesture to this cultural space by building bridges between the popular and the academic. .
Without forcing the sound territories and, instead, generating a virtuous cross that could well be synthesized from the simplification of appreciating good music to the detriment of the other, the Rosario Popular Music Meeting gave another function for its rich history.
“Argentine music for strings”, a proposal released last March to accompany the memory of a new anniversary of the civic-military coup perpetrated in 1976, naturally came to this collective event since several of its popular voices make up the founding staff and continuation of the project. which is celebrating two decades of activity.
The Chamber Orchestra under the baton of the pianist Lucas Querini and with its endowment of first violins, second violins, violas, cellos and double basses, added the percussions of Juancho Perone and the guitar of Marcelo Stenta, to immerse themselves in the folkloric and music repertoire. song with a delicate and careful setting.
On this inspired and elaborate basis, the voices of Myriam Cubelos, Aldana Moriconi, Martín Neri and Julián Venegas were able to complete a framework where excellence speaks a popular language without asking for permission, without having to get on a bench or put on makeup for the occasion. .
All that instrumental and vocal formation (with solo singing, in duets, and quartet, as required by the planned program) functioned as a tribute, evocation and topicality around works by Raúl Carnota, Chacho Muller and Jorge Fandermole until reaching the end with ” I come to offer my heart”, by Fito Páez.
The master song of Cubelos opened the segment, first reading “Extermination Plan” by Eduardo Galeano and then singing “Esencia de mi pueblo”, the first of the Carnota trilogy that Neri continued (after narrating “Give me your hand” by Paco Urondo with his overwhelming stanza “Love will burn; its memory will burn, until everything is as we dreamed it, as in reality it could have been”) and “Sin of youth” and Moriconi closed with “Gatito e’ las penas”.
The stretch dedicated to Muller brought together “Pescadores de mi río” (on an arrangement by Juan Quintero and sung by Moriconi), the triumph “Mariano el abanderador” (which Cubelos prefaced with another piece by Galeano), the lyricism of Venegas for “Ay , Soledad” and a fiery Neri on the “Pampa gringa” footprint.
The Neri-Cubelos duo opened the Fandermole segment (“another honor”, they said as a duet, with “Oración del remanso”), Venegas sailed with “Chamarrón de proa”, while with Neri he shared “Huayno del diablo” (which in his spell adds Lucho González) and with Moriconi he made “Sueñero”.
After “La muerte duplicada”, a text by Jorge Riestra from Rosario, the entire cast came together for “I come to offer my heart”, adding a Fito to the table beyond his serial cut.
But before that performance in the background, the refined proposal by Saba-Chiodi on piano and winds wisely introduced that atmosphere where music is a single, misty caress that mocks boxes and names.
First in duo with a new reading around “Saramani” (piece that the pianist created as a tribute to Sara Mamani) and then integrating Perone on percussion for another tribute, in this case, to the late percussionist Rodolfo Sánchez with the beautiful zamba ” Years Later” composed by Chiodi.
Two other works by Saba: “Malambo libre” (also the title of an album that is celebrating its 20th anniversary) that he shared with Perone and the huayno “Sol y luna”, in this case in a trio, were more than an appetizer but a magnificent doorway input to what would arrive moments later.
The closing of this birthday that would deserve a larger audience will once again take place today in the Parque España room with a proposal whose main dish is a tribute to the pianist, author and trainer Hilda Herrera.
Source: Ambito
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