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The Plaza de San Antolín will host tomorrow, at 8:30 p.m., the flamenco concert 'If you go to San Antolín ...' by Curro Piñana, Sakira Martínez and José Antonio Chacón 'If you go to San Antolín ...'
In the nineteenth century, the director of Diario de Murcia and columnist José Martínez Tornel embodied in a biweekly section that was entitled "Cantares Murcia" a song that alluded to San Antolin.
The couplet (If you go to San Antolin; and to the left you lean; you will see in his dressing room; the Divine Pastora) was later taken by the flamenco singer "La Niña de los Peines" (Seville, 1890-1969) and It was recorded and popularized in 1912 becoming part of the collection of Flemish letters.
It thus became one of the most emblematic songs of cante "for cartageneras", being Pastora Pavón, the "Niña de los Peines", the first artist to record it.
Given its popularity, still today, in 2017 doctors Juan Francisco Murcia and José Ortega inquired about the history of the San Antolín neighborhood and its temple, which housed a leading figure of this couplet, the Divine Pastora of Francisco Salzillo (and They wrote a research article that was published in the magazine 'Oral Music of the South' of the Junta de Andalucía that deals with the repertoire of mining-Levantine styles, variants with which this popular letter has been appearing since its origin. meticulous musical analysis of the cante by cartageneras, of which it is one of its most emblematic lyrics.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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