Cantos Cautivos
5 results where found for «Quena cautiva»
- Music piece by:Claudio Durán Pardo
- Testimony by:Claudio Enrique Durán Pardo
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros, Tres Álamos, September - December 1975
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- « I first laid my hands on a quena when I was nine years old. It was resplendently fragile and lyrical. My passion for this instrument was immediate, or rather, the quena chose me. »
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- « Captive Quena (Quena cautiva) »
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- Music piece by:unknown. Folk tune from the Andes highlands
- Testimony by:Luis Cifuentes Seves
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, January - February 1974
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- « Agreeing to a suggestion from Ricardo, Los de Chacabuco learned and arranged this tune. In the
Andean high plateau , the tune is a satirical reference to lawyers and, by implication, to civil servants. It is performed at carnival time. »- [...]
- « We arranged it as an instrumental tune, with no lyrics. Ricardo played impressive solos on the
quena and the melody was accompanied by the rhythmic movements of the band members, something that was an innovation in our performances. Other instruments in use were guitar andcharango . »- [Read full testimony]
- Music piece by:attributed to Gilberto Rojas Enríquez (Bolivia), Manuel Casazola Huancco (Perú), and the Andean oral tradition. Popularised in Chile by Violeta Parra and her children Isabel and Ángel Parra.
- Testimony by:Luis Cifuentes Seves
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, January – February 1974
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- « This is the last track on the cassette recorded by the band Los de Chacabuco in the concentration camp; it was digitised in 2015. »
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- « The quena was played by Ricardo Yocelewski and the charango by Luis Cifuentes. »
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- Music piece by:unknown. Folk tune from the Andes highlands
- Testimony by:Guillermo Orrego
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- « In 1974 - I don’t quite remember the month - the Chacabuco Olympics were held. The opening ceremony consisted of symbolically carrying the Olympic torch through the concentration camp. »
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- « The march was accompanied by the sounds of the
quena played by Ricardo Yocelevsky, a former member of the group Los Curacas. I remember the song as ataquirari from Los Chaskas, a Bolivian group that performed at theViña del Mar Festival on one occasion. »- [Read full testimony]
- Music piece by:Luis Advis
- Testimony by:Alfonso Padilla
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- « Between March 1974 and July 1975, I had the opportunity to arrange about 200 songs and direct the production of the Cantata de Santa María de Iquique. In truth, the prison was my conservatoire. That’s where I learnt the basics of the profession of musician. »
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- « I learnt the work by heart and we rehearsed as it is customary for popular musicians: I taught every part, every melodic line of the quenas, every harmonic accompaniment, strumming and bombo rhythms, through repetition. Everyone learnt their part by heart, by the way. »
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- « Agreeing to a suggestion from Ricardo, Los de Chacabuco learned and arranged this tune. In the