Cantos Cautivos
169 results where found for «Why the afternoon cries»
- Music piece by:Poni Micharvegas
- Testimony by:Luis Alfredo Muñoz González
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Cuatro Álamos, late February 1975
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- « While I was in solitary confinement in Cuatro Álamos, one day I noticed there was a large room at the end of the corridor, which, overnight, the dinos had filled with prisoners. »
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- « One afternoon, I heard a voice that stood out from all the others, a song and music I’d never heard before. It was a beautiful, strong and clear voice. The voice didn’t seem to come from the big room but rather a cell close to mine. »
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- Music piece by:José Agustín Goytisolo (lyrics) and Paco Ibáñez (music)
- Testimony by:Amelia Negrón
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros, Tres Álamos, 1975 and 1976, until the closure of Tres Álamos
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- « There were so many of us women prisoners. Despite the circumstances, we had managed to invent our own world, one with our rules, according to what we thought and wanted for ourselves, our families and all the Chilean people. »
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- « We would take turns reading aloud from the newspaper, and articles from weekly publications: we needed to be informed to make our own analysis and to plan for the short and long-term future. In the meantime, we worked hard, at full steam, Monday to Friday, morning and afternoon. »
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- Music piece by:Roberto Ternán
- Testimony by:Amelia Negrón
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros, Tres Álamos, June 1976
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- « We were in Pavilion 1. One of us came up with the idea, I can’t remember who. There were so many of us and we spent the day inventing and creating things! »
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- « And we played the knockout games, the quarter-finals and the semi-finals. In this narrow yard surrounded by grey walls our cries of joy and support to our favourite team or a well-scored goal would explode. »
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- Music piece by:Violeta Parra
- Testimony by:María Cecilia Marchant Rubilar
- Experience in:Cárcel de Mujeres Buen Pastor, La Serena, September 1973 - January 1974
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- « We sang songs that were popular at the time. We’d sing 'What will the Holy Father say', especially the part that says 'What will the Holy Father who lives in Rome say ... they are slitting the throat of his dove...' quite often, for example when someone was taken off to Regimiento Arica, which was a torture centre. »
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- « Traditional cuecas make no sense. I've no idea why the heck this should be, but whenever I hear a cueca it always makes me think of
Los Huasos Quincheros , and I think they are dreadful. »- [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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- « The rehearsals lasted a month and we held them in a tiny punishment cell with walls and a door so thick, that outside of it nothing could be heard. That’s why the performance of the piece was a complete surprise for the political prisoners. During the ‘concert’ dozens of common prisoners and guards came to listen. »
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- Music piece by:Sergio Vesely
- Testimony by:Sergio Vesely
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- « Prison forced me to think quite a lot about my political past and my total commitment to an ideological cause, and its consequences. »
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- « cries because it no longer flies »
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Musicalized Dialogue between Two Old Prisoners (Diálogo musicalizado entre dos ancianos presos)
- Music piece by:Sergio Vesely
- Testimony by:Sergio Vesely
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- « At Puchuncaví Detention Camp (Melinka) I shared a cell with an elderly man from Lota, where he had spent his entire life working in the coal mines. »
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- « What’s the matter with you, buddy, why don't you cumpa*? »
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- Music piece by:Unknown composer. This song probably relates to European early-years pedagogy.
- Testimony by:Domingo Lizama
- Experience in:Cárcel de Valdivia / Cárcel de Isla Teja, 9 October 1973
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- « They arrested me at my workplace in October 1973 . I was 31 years old and worked as a porter at a logging business in Chumpullo, near Valdivia. »
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- « Why do you destroy my garden? »
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- Music piece by:Silvio Rodríguez
- Testimony by:Eduardo Andrés Arancibia Ortiz
- Experience in:Cárcel de Santiago, 1990
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- « This was one of the songs
Silvio Rodríguez sang to us the day he visited the political prisoners in Santiago’s Public Jail in 1990. »- [...]
- « That is why he is a soldier and a lover, »
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- Music piece by:Hermanos Núñez
- Testimony by:Germán Larrabe
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Melinka, Puchuncaví, 1974 -1976
- « This was one of the songs