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Activities start for the 150th anniversary National Conservatory of Music celebration.
January 08, 2016The 150th anniversary celebration of the National Conservatory of Music, founded on January 14 1866, began with a concert of baroque, Mexican and Latin American rhythms, by Tierra Mestiza, which offered the first in a series of recitals scheduled that soon they will be released.
The director of the National Conservatory of Music, David Rodriguez de la Peña, celebrated that the group, which most of its members have been conservatorianos, has started with the event of the music school.
He highlighted that the Conservatory has been a mounting space for the works of the members of the group Tierra Mestiza, composed by Gerardo Tamez in the direction and guitar, Mercedes Gomez on the harp and who teaches that instrument in the building, Teodoro Gálvez on the violin and Carlos García on vocals, flute, jarana (Mexican guitar) and percussion.
He thanked their willingness to share their knowledge, experience and good music while giving them a recognition for their participation in this celebration where also Mexican and Latin American composers' works were played.
Gerardo Tamez also celebrated that Tierra Mestiza is part of this 150 anniversary commemoration of the Conservatory as it was built in the era of Benito Juarez, in difficult times, and has remained as an alternative where a proffesion of great beauty is teached.
This concert was held at the Silvestre Revueltas Auditorium of the Conservatory, which began with the strains of pieces composed by the Spanish Santiago de Murcia. Entrance was free.
Los Imposibles was the first work performed, which its sounds of the baroque guitar, harp and violin, transported the audience to the novohispano baroque
The evening continued with another piece of the Spanish composer entitled Fandango that in its Spanish origin, was bound by the musicians of Tierra Mestiza with El fandanguito of son Jarocho (musical expression of Jarocha culture)
Latin American rhythms with lively tunes, were played masterfully by Tierra Mestiza with the piece Festejando el son, work by Carlos Garcia.
Also, the audience was delighted with Concierto San Ángel by Gerardo Tamez, La Folía, baroque music and La Petenera of son jarocho.
Tierra Mestiza, founded in 2005, also played Arpatlán, piece created by its director and was commissioned for the First Latin American Harp meeting, that first joined this instrument with folk and classic features of the region.
Also, Tierra Mestiza by Gerardo Tamez and name of the group, sounded. It is a 40 year old piece composed when he was part of Los Folkloristas.
Finally, it was the turn of one of the most important themes of the Mexican repertoire, a work played by major national and international orchestras: Danzon No. 2 by Arturo Marquez, another prominent student of the Conservatory.
However, at the insistence of the public, the group returned twice to the stage for the encore and performed Vamo Turu, which sets the music to Christmas poems by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. The recital concluded with Libertango by the Argentine, Astor Piazzola.
Mexico,Distrito Federal
