Cantos Cautivos
169 results where found for «The Apparition»
- Music piece by:poem by Francisco Pezoa Astudillo set to music by Quilapayún
- Testimony by:Renato Alvarado
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Cuatro Álamos, February 1975
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- « 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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- « Song to the
pampa , the sad land »- [Read full testimony]
- Music piece by:unknown. Folk tune from the south of Chile
- Testimony by:Teresa Retamal Silva
- Experience in:Cárcel de Mujeres Buen Pastor, Chillán, May 1974
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- « The Cárcel Buen Pastor was a compound run by nuns. They called us political prisoners and were anxious to collect information about us to pass it on to our tormentors. »
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- « unknown. Folk tune from the south of Chile »
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The Dead Man Won't Be Pinned on Me (Ese muerto no lo cargo yo)
- Music piece by:Graciela Arango de Tobón, popularised in Chile by Giolito y su Combo, and by Los Vikings 5
- Testimony by:Joaquín Real Hermosilla
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- « From that troubled time, I would like to remember an activity that kept us active during the harsh confinement in Las Bandurrias. It is about music, an artistic expression that revealed the talent of several political prisoners and allowed us to endure the confinement for almost six months. »
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- « They found Don Goyo »
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- Music piece by:Violeta Parra
- Testimony by:Felipe Chiang Martínez
- Experience in:Regimiento de Infantería Motorizada Nº 23, Copiapó, October-December 1973
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- « 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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- « and in the high sky its starry depths »
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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
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- « 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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- « the final flame of your painful body! »
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- Music piece by:Jorge Peña Hen
- Testimony by:María Fedora Peña
- Experience in:Cárcel de la Serena, October 1973
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- « 'Look here, Maria Fedora. I’ve brought you a treasure', it was the voice of my brother Juan Cristián as he crossed the doorway of our mother’s house one morning in January 1983. »
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- 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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- « Traditional song and dance genre developed in the Andean regions of Peru and commonly associated with Quechua communities. »
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- Music piece by:Víctor Valencia Nieto
- Testimony by:Domingo Chávez Navarro
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, November 1973 - April 1974
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- « Marcelo Concha Bascuñán sang this song, which many of us liked. I personally knew Marcelo and we were both released from prison at the same time. I left the country, whereas Marcelo stayed in Chile. The DINA picked him up and since then he is one of so many disappeared people. »
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- Music piece by:Ángel Parra
- Testimony by:Luis Cifuentes Seves
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, November - December 1973
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- « This is the original version of a composition by Ángel Parra at Chacabuco, as secretly recorded at the prison camp during his farewell concert. The composer’s voice can be heard. »
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- Music piece by:Ludwig van Beethoven
- Testimony by:anonymous
- Experience in:Cárcel de Valdivia / Cárcel de Isla Teja, September 1973