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Quilapayún historical and Chilean singer Manuel Garcia, accompanied by the Symphony Orchestra of Murcia and Pedro Guerra, will perform on Sunday, July 19 as part of the festival program, dedicated this year to Chile
Víctor Lidio Jara Martínez, better known as Victor Jara, was teacher, theater director, political activist, a member of the Communist Party of Chile, but above all was a musician and songwriter and that made ​​him a leader of the protest song along and breadth of the world, an icon of Chilean music that today remains.
La Mar Music Festival, which this year makes a special Chile, recalled the figure of Jara Sunday July 19 with performances of historical Quilapayún Chilean band that Chile was one of its members and meets and fifty years on stage and Chilean singer Manuel Garcia, who takes up a project that made ​​Victor Jara Symphony ten years ago, this time accompanied by Orchestra and Chorus of the Region of Murcia and the Canary songwriter Pedro Guerra.
The double bill will be on Sunday 19th July at 20.00 pm.
in the Auditorium The Batel.
Tickets cost 18 euros.
In a Special Chilean music they could not miss in the Sea of ​​Music tribute to one of the most important figures that had the music of the Andean country.
Jara is an international leader of the protest song and singer.
One of the most iconic of all time Chilean artists.
He was the protagonist of the artistic movement called the New Chilean Song and his murder one of the emblematic crimes of the dictatorship of General Pinochet, because Jara was with his guitar and his verses the troubadour of the socialist revolution of the Allende government. The Jara crime in Chile is equivalent to the murder of Federico Garcia Lorca in Spain.
The cruelty with Jara was one of the signs of the Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990), which brutally smashed Allende's government and socialist dreams, leaving more than 3,200 dead and missing, about 30,000 tortured and tens of thousands of exiles.
The Socialist government attracted a wide membership of artists and intellectuals.
In the three years of Allende, Chile experienced a cultural breakout like never before and Victor Jara was one of the protagonists.
Son of peasants, he met the exploitation and misery in their childhood and youth.
He learned music from his mother's intuition.
When she died, she traveled to Santiago to study theater.
As theater director received awards from critics and the press for their productions and toured two continents.
While studying drama, he began playing and composing with Cuncumén group.
He then worked with the plethora of Chilean folklore: Quilapayún, Inti Illimani, Ángel and Isabel Parra, Patricio Manns, Rolando Alarcon.
Violeta Parra was one of those early Jara discovered talent as a composer and performer.
Communist militant, Jara defended the Popular Unity with his guitar, made protest songs, but his major works, those simple and timeless, they are sprouting from the ground and poverty in peripheral neighborhoods of Santiago, sources his knowledge.
Victor believed that the best school for singing is life.
I remember you Amanda, when I go to work, the cigarette, Luchin, Manifesto, the right to live in peace, prayer to a farmer ... are songs that have accompanied the life of Chileans, Latin Americans and were well and are hymns for many sectors of society around the world.
à ‰ stas and other songs will be remembered in a tribute to the most important singer who has given Chile together with Violeta Parra in Cartagena.
The program of performances on Sunday July 19 will begin training with the legendary Quilapayún, which is more committed and political expression of music in Chile.
The group was the biggest symbol of the new Chilean song, most identified with the government of Popular Unity;
and his repertoire was the best represented, before and after the 1973 coup, the political left in the country.
In August 1973 they undertook a tour of France that did not return.
While giving an interview on a radio in Paris, they learned of the arrival of the Chilean military to power.
It was the beginning of an exile that lasted until late 80. In this period, the band evolved into his music and his convictions, maintaining poor communication with local public, because obviously Quilapayún music was banned in the country (to the point that only have their albums was a source of suspicion for the security services of the military regime).
Installed in Paris, Quilapayún initiated a series of concert performances in solidarity with the situation in Chile, Europe and became a symbol of resistance.
The people united will never be defeated (1975), which includes the song of the same name written by Sergio Ortega was his first album in exile, and kept the lyrical and musical codes that the group developed in Chile.
During his exile in France, where centralizing intense activity around the world, all other sounds explored and expanded his speech.
After some crises and periods of silence, today there are musicians living in Chile and France, and have continued recording albums and touring, in a trade that meets the 2015 half-century.
Solemn in their sound and presence, the result of rigorous artistic direction of Victor Jara in his early years, Quilapayún songs ranging from Latin Americanist, anti-imperialist content and sometimes openly quotas, to profound reflections of human existence.
Andean rhythms and instruments as a basis, its sound is distinguished mainly by its powerful vocal work.
There is a solo voice in the set: yodos take center stage at different times, in a collective spirit that is one of the hallmarks of the group.
Since 1988, several musicians were gradually leaving the set.
Some returned to Chile with the return to democracy.
Members that gave rise to Quilapayun Eduardo Carrasco is only in its ranks, but Quilapayún is more than its formation, Chile is living history.
For many people, Manuel Garcia is the closest to Victor Jara that exists today and has been after him.
Manuel Garcia engaged in politics as the author of I remember Amanda own, it is the most prominent artist of the new Chilean song, a resurgence of the movement who starred in the sixties Jara own.
Garcia also fought against the dictatorship as a teenager with his music and in 2006 was the voice that carried the tribute Victor Jara Symphony, almost ten years later resubmitted in Spain in Cartagena.
He will be accompanied by Choir and Symphony Orchestra of Murcia, Manuel Garcia will play versions of classical music as Victor Jara and canary singer Pedro Guerra.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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