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Programming Murcia Three Cultures Festival has, in its seventeenth edition, with a total of six shows murciana production of music, dance, literature and storytelling.
The next Saturday, May 14, at 22.30, the building facade Moneo host the vertical show 'The tree and the three fruits', which rescues three significant books of each of the cultures represented to create a musical kaleidoscope three hinged together different voices in poetry, dance and a studied lighting design.
The staging, with texts of each culture as a bridge between identities, articulates with a sound session with a live dj.
Dance and interpretation is inspired by flamenco and Spanish Mediterranean folklore, dances and Egyptian Shaabi Chassidic dances.
The viewer's gaze is directed to the front of the building designed by Rafael Moneo where everything happens: the dance and movement of the dancers and performer with lighting, inspired by the colors of the three fruits, chosen to be fundamental and symbols the three cultures: Granada, dates, apple.
On Thursday May 19, in the Cloister of Santa Clara, at 20.30, Ensemble Popular Mediterranean, nonet with classic instrumentation of guitar, flute, piano, percussion and string quintet, will star in 'Altarpiece Alfonsi'.
The work, in the form of Suite, consists of six parts with a prologue and an epilogue, one Cantiga de Loor, the two Cantigas dedicated to Murcia and Cartagena respectively and another miracle, reminiscent of the original structure of Codex Alfonsino.
The thread that connects this 'Altarpiece Alfonsi' are the melodies of the Cantigas de Santa Maria, developed by medieval artists of the three monotheistic religions.
With a modern language without losing the musical essence of these works dedicated to the Virgin, Murcia composer Salvador Martinez, proposes a soundscape Mediterranean background transpires popular echoes and avant-garde aspects in a contemporary language that brings the listener in an instant and while the alfonsí feudal world and technology of the century.
La Banda del Pepo perform on Friday May 20 in the University Square (at 21 hours), presenting their third album 'I know a place', which is evidenced their fidelity to the fusion of sounds Mediterranean.
Aires, in addition to instruments, aflamencados sonorities, arrangements and oriental influences;
along with overflowing urban letters written aromas, once again, by Pepo Sanchez, able to capture them his scathing, daily and vindictive costumbrismo neighborhood, not forgetting a marked poetic register that permeates all his letters.
A group that revolves around the charismatic figure of Pepo Sanchez and blending Mediterranean sounds ranging from Turkey or Greece, through the Levant and Andalusia, to the North African countries, always embraced flamenco leave with singing Pepo.
Also on Friday May 20, the Wall Veronicas and the Hall of Columns Almudí Palace, from 23 hours, a space for oral tradition 'Rincones that have' offering culture through an ancestral tradition recreate with a minimum voice and instrumental support, through stories, ballads and instruments originating from different cultures.
In the Wall Veronicas, teacher and writer Alonso Palacios offer 'Outcry', a show of storytelling without artifice in which the narrator will be in front of the listener without more resources than the warmth of the voice and complicity that established between the two.
The object of the narrative are stories of oral tradition of the three cultures that for centuries lived together in harmony.
In the Hall of Columns Almudí Palace, Alberto Caride and Tone Clemente will star 'and poems Cantigas', by specifically binding to Murcia Three Cultures and creating a show combining music and narration.
Accompanied by guitar Clemente, Caride recite fragments of the Cantigas de Santa Maria, the poem Songs of life and hope Ruben Dario, a poem about the Camino de Santiago and four own poems.
Children also have their space in the Murcia Festival Three Cultures with the show 'Pepica and bichejos' with a thousand and one tales thousand colors for boys and girls of a new millennium in which borderless and races and cultures intermingle.
This show will be held on May 21, on Liberty Avenue, at 19 hours.
Finally, the group of Murcian origin but with Galician roots Túa, founded in 2008, will perform on Saturday 21, at the Museum of the City at 23 pm, folk music of north and south, medieval sounds, Celtic, from the air galaicos until muñeiras, and Irish jigs, to other sounds that recall times past the time of Alfonso X and his Cantigas.
On the occasion of the celebration of the 750th anniversary of the granting of the privilege of the Charter of Seville to the city of Murcia by Alfonso X the Wise, Túa perform some Cantigas de Santa Maria that the monarch made in honor of the Virgin, and other issues varied styles.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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