189 results where found for «National Anthem of Chile»


Song to the Pampa (Canto a la pampa)

Music piece by:
poem by Francisco Pezoa Astudillo set to music by Quilapayún
Testimony by:
Renato Alvarado
Experience in:
« The first song that we managed to sing was Quilapayún's setting of the poem Canto a la Pampa (Song to the Pampa), by the anarchist poet Francisco Pezoa Astudillo, which recounts one of the bloodiest episodes of the class struggle in Chile: the massacre of the Santa María school in Iquique in December 1907. The prisoners of the large Room 13 of Cuatro Álamos camp sang it complete and as a chorus around February 1975. »
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Thanks to Life (Gracias a la vida)

Music piece by:
Violeta Parra
Testimony by:
Felipe Chiang Martínez
Experience in:
« I was born in Vallenar, but I have lived in Copiapó practically all my life. At the age of 18, I started working in the mines and also began my political activity. »
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«  (Discoteca del Cantar Popular). Chilean record label dedicated to disseminating music with social content, especially Chilean New Song. »
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Cantata Our Great Mother (Cantata Nuestra Madre Grande) - Towards the Light (Hacia la luz)

Music piece by:
Manuel Luis Rodríguez Uribe (lyrics), Fernando Lanfranco Leverton (music), Marco Antonio Barticevic Sapunar (notation)
Testimony by:
Fernando Lanfranco Leverton
Experience in:
Campamento de Prisioneros Isla Dawson, December 1973; Cárcel de Punta Arenas, September 1975
« Most of us, political prisoners from the Magallanes region, were transferred to the detention and torture camp on Dawson Island on 21 December 1973. We came from the more than twenty detention, torture and interrogation centres of the civil-military dictatorship in the Magallanes region. »
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« I began to compose, using Latin American rhythms and harmonies and very much influenced by the Chilean New Song movement, the songs of Víctor Jara, Violeta Parra, Patricio Manns, Rolando Alarcón and many others. I finished composing the work in the Cárcel Pública of Punta Arenas with the support of Marco Antonio, with whom I wrote the musical notation on the stave. »
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Recinto: Dirección de Comunicaciones de Carabineros de Chile (DICOMCAR) Recinto Comando Conjunto / DICOMCAR, calle Dieciocho (La Firma)
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Recinto: Campamento de Prisioneros, Estadio Chile (actual Estadio Víctor Jara)
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Recinto: Tenencia de Carabineros, Pichilemu
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Recinto: Comisaría de Carabineros, Chile Chico
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Region: Antofagasta
There are 28 testimonies in this region.
There are 1 detention centres with testimonies from a total of 36 detention centres
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Today Was Visitors’ Day (Hoy fue día de visitas)

Music piece by:
Sergio Vesely
Testimony by:
Sergio Vesely
Experience in:
« Visitors’ day was an exceptional day that broke the monotonous routine of all the other days of the week. »
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« Today the teapot, the coffee and bread roll »
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Casida of the Dark Pigeons (Casida de las palomas oscuras)

Music piece by:
Federico García Lorca (words), Paco Ibáñez (music)
Testimony by:
Luis Alfredo Muñoz González
Experience in:
« According to scientists, memory and music processing are situated in a deep, ancestral part of the brain, where it is zealously guarded. »
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« Through the branches of laurel »
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