World Music November 5th

Music from all latitudes. We started this program with harp music from the flats of Venezuela and the poem Florentino y el Diablo (1940), written by the poet and Venezuelan politician: Alberto Arvelo Torrealba. Then later we heard El Cascabel, by the brothers Rufino and Tirso Velasquez Córdoba, from the group Alma Jarocha. Again we listened El Cascabel, but now the Latin Christmas version by Ruben Blades from Panama and the Puerto Rican, Yomo Toro. Then that we were already enjoying Latin rythms, we listened to Mapeyé by Dimension Latina, performed by the singer Oscar De Leon. Finally we heard, Abriendo Caminos on this segment, by the Argentine pop singer; Diego Torres and Juan Dominican multi-instrumentalist, Luis Guerra.

We started a segment with three European groups and one from North Africa. First of all, we enjoyed Dublin In Vigo, by The Chieftains, an Irish traditional music band founded in 1963. After that, we listened Samarabalouf, a quartet of musicians from France whose weapons of seduction are limited to a hearing instrument component. No voice, no choreography. A dumb show group that does not require a great show of lights or a tenor who dazzled everyone else, they performed, La rumba de l'amour. From Europe to Africa for the song Les Jardins de Ziryab sang by the musician and composer Anouar Brahem, born on October 20th, 1957 in Tunis.Finally. To finish we presented No estamos locos, by Retama, a Spanish musical group of flamenco fusion.
Starting acoustic segments. In this segment, we listened to the American Fiona Apple and the English Elvis Costello, with the song I want you. Again, Fiona Apple, but now accompanied by the folk singer Johnny Cash. In Cuba La Bola by Manolin. The doctor of the Salsa. To finish, Hemingway raves by Eliades Ochoa and the Cuarteto Patrio from Cuba.
We finished this show with a mix of global sounds singed and played by the world's more elegant orchestra; the Mantovani Orchestra. El vacilón de Tacámbaro, a polka by Juan Reynoso, better known as " El Paganini de Tierra Caliente". And to finash, Para cuando te vayas is performed by the Mexican band, Chejere, as Los sabores de mi porro, was played by the Colombian, Toto La Momposina.

Translated by: Ana Elizabeth Olguín Vargas