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'Pianos en la calle' celebrates its fourth edition with interesting novelties.
The Councilor for Economic Promotion, Culture and European Programs, Jesus Pacheco, presented this morning the event that will be filled with music the squares of Murcia next Saturday of music.
Throughout the day, from 11 am, almost 500 amateur musicians will play the pianos installed in the Belluga Cardinal Plaza, Avenida de la Libertad, Plaza Santa Eulalia, Artillery Barracks and Gran Via Alfonso X el Sabio.
As of 9:00 pm, 55 piano professionals, including Marina Kan, David Malusá and Manos Kitsikopoulos, among many others, will offer recitals in the same places.
The main novelty of this edition is that an original musical concert will be held in which 50 professors of the Conservatory of Music of Murcia, will interpret 840 times the mysterious and original piece by Erik Satie, called Vexations.
The uninterrupted concert will be held in the cloister of the Merced of the University of Murcia from 6 in the morning until after midnight.
The youngest will also have their own space with the didactic workshop 'The Adventures of Jazzy'n to be held in the Plaza Romea at 12, 13, 17.30 and 18.30.
Pianos in the street coincides every year with the Clamo International Piano Competition Region of Murcia, which celebrates its fifth edition and whose auditions will take place in the Caballerizas de los Molinos del Río Segura room.
The Councilor for Economic Promotion, Culture and European Programs, Jesus Pacheco, explained that "Murcia will be this weekend a hotbed of activities, among which highlights this fourth edition of 'Pianos on the street', which this year exceeds in number the instrumentalists of the past year when they were counted 450 ".
Vexations
The special tribute to Satie has as its protagonist the mysterious work entitled Vexations, which must be interpreted that particular number of times at the express request of the composer himself
The work is composed of diminished chords that are never resolved, like the mysteries that cross this score where the chords lack tonal hierarchy.
When Satie composed it, two important events occurred in her life, one was the failed relationship with the French painter Suzanne Valadon.
Hence, its title, which means something like disappointments (comes from the French vexé).
Satie wanted to demonstrate with this work that any harmonic or rhythmic system could create a habit in the listener and that the traditional tonal system was not something innate.
Repeating 840 times was the formula according to the French musician to get used to this new sound.
Pianos on the street is organized by the Department of Economic Promotion, Culture and European Programs, in collaboration with Klavier, Iberpiano and Clamo Music and the collaboration of the University of Murcia and the Conservatory of Music of Murcia, among others.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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