The music of traditional composers such as Jorge Velosa, Luis A. Calvo and Adolfo Mejía and of the contemporaries Mauricio Lozano and Juan David Osorio, present a tribute to Colombian musical diversity.
On Saturday May 29 at 7:00 pm the Medellín Philharmonic Orchestra presents “Cuerdas de Colombia” a concert to enjoy the traditional and contemporary music of our country with rhythms such as the corridor, dance, merengue carranguero and bambuco, among others. We will also present the world premiere of Radiografía, a work by Juan David Osorio for requinto and string orchestra, inspired by the pandemic and the current social situation in the country.
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For the morning of Sunday, May 30, the world premiere of La Llorona will be presented , a concert narrated about a Latin American myth composed by Jaime Martínez , principal of Filarmed’s oboes.
Concert “Strings for Colombia”
Music by traditional composers such as Jorge Velosa, Luis A. Calvo and Adolfo Mejía and by contemporaries Mauricio Lozano and Juan David Osorio, present us with a tribute to Colombian musical diversity. The concert will have the musical direction of the maestro Juan Pablo Valencia and the participation of the typist Jairo Rincón and the requintist and composer Juan David Osorio, as soloists.
“The tiple is a symbolic instrument of the music of the region and the country. This concert joins the celebration of the 25 years of the National Encounter of the Tiple de Envigado organized by Cortiple , which will take place in June. With Cortiple and my work as a teacher of the Envigado Music School Network, we are carrying out the mission of spreading the heritage of the tiple through artistic and educational programs ”, says Jairo Rincón.
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A string orchestra by Filarmed will perform, by Mauricio Lozano, the corridors Guasap and I had a dream , and the Lunatic dance; in addition to his arrangements, for tiple and string quartet, of works such as Bambuco in B minor by Adolfo Mejía , the Passage Entusiasmo by Luis A. Calvo, Guabina Chiquinquireña by Alberto Urdaneta and the carranguero merengue La Yerbamora by Jorge Velosa.
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This union of instrumentalists and composers is completed with the world premiere of Radiografía, a concert for requinto guitar and string orchestra by Juan David Osorio, who will also be a soloist in the performance.
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For Juan David, his composition Radiography is an internal photograph that allows us to see the inside of our body. It is made up of three movements: “ReinvenSon ”, which for Osorio the term “reinventing himself” was to get closer to the requinto and reflect the influences of the bolero-son and the bolero feeling, among others; “Meditation and Paranoia” , slow and energetic, reflects an approach to Andean music, expresses the states of mind experienced by the confinements, and also, the political and social tension that the country is experiencing. And finally, “Bambulero Recio”, a dialogue between the requinto and the orchestra with influences from bambuco, bolero and joropo.
La Llorona, narrated concert – World premiere
La Llorona is a scripted cantata and music composed for two sopranos, a narrator and an orchestra. According to the composer, it was conceived to highlight the role of women in music and will feature the participation of the soprano Laura Moreno (La Llorona), the mezzo-soprano Laura Mosquera (Malinche), the narration by Daniela Ocampo and the musical direction of Ana María Patiño.
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The composer and oboist Jaime Martínez , was born and raised in Carora, Venezuela, with this and other popular legends, and has wanted to expose in this version of La Llorona a moralizing entity that pleads guilty, but at the same time is a victim of social scourges that have accompanied us throughout history and that are still in force, claiming victims. In other words, “… girls, boys, adolescents and women, who have lived through stories of injustice and violence that continue to plague humanity,” says teacher Martínez.
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But what are the origins of the legend of La Llorona ? It is a very old spectrum, it dates back to pre-Hispanic times, our ancestors represented it with various characters with similar characteristics. “The legend has served to scare the children, to generate fear of the unfaithful with the partner , whether man or woman, and even to prevent infanticides.