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During the ceremony have been released future projects to be developed by the Chair on the figure of Enrique Morente
Estrella Morente wanted to show their appreciation to the UCAM by this appointment, tearing to sing a verse of San Juan de la Cruz, as he toured the Temple of Los Jeronimos, with nearly a thousand students and teachers who filled the seat of the University.
The Granada singer received the appointment as director of the International Foundation UCAM-Cante de las Minas, Flamencology and did not hesitate to say that it is "the most important day of my career."
It should be noted that during the ceremony the president of the UCAM, José Luis Mendoza, and the mayor of La Union and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Cante, Francisco Martín Barnabas Foundation have released Minas future research projects develop the Chair and which are linked to the figure of Enrique Morente.
Estrella Morente, who also played a popular song and Cartagena, stressed the importance of flamenco in his life.
"I love flamenco, love and Murcia, as Cante de las Minas, that Flemish is one of the highest regard."
It has also highlighted the importance of the creation of this Chair is a recognition for this discipline.
"El Cante de las Minas is proving that the singing is all that anywhere a singer, a dancer, someone who struck with his hands, with his soul ... is a genre that has singing and what the people born "he qualified.
Chair First World
UCAM President Jose Luis Mendoza, said that this is the first director in the world, the first international cadre of Flamenco, and said that "Estrella Morente is a love of flamenco artist to toe head, and loves the investigation. "
Meanwhile, the mayor of La Union, Francisco Bernabé, has clarified that it is the first time that a flamenco festival launches Flamencología chair with a university.
"We can proudly say that the two most dynamic marks in the region of Murcia today, the Cante de las Minas and the Catholic University of Murcia, have agreed to join forces and efforts to flourish this milestone, and give the maximum range legal status of college, all training activities conducted, and research through the School of Flamenco Art of gastronomic events, or through the activities of the museum Cante de las Minas "he Barnabas asserted.
Projects on the figure of Enrique Morente
Throughout the text have been many moments that reminded Enrique Morente, among them to present various projects to be carried out from the international Flamencology about the singer.
In this regard, José Luis Mendoza has advanced the development of a multidisciplinary research about the figure of Enrique Morente, and said that "the UCAM is at the service of what we consider a fundamental art in Spain, flamenco".
Similarly, Barnabas recalled a project he said the singer himself.
"He wanted to unite the mining towns of the world through their music, I wanted to take a tour, an inquiry in which starting from the Union and its songs, see how subafricanos miners musically expressed, Chilean, Polish and the Chinese, "and added that" this must be one of the challenges we have put us in this chair. "
Scheduled activities
Jose Luis Mendoza already announced during the presentation of the Chair several actions that the university will develop as a result of the creation thereof; example are organizing a World Congress of Flamenco, a Masters in Performing Arts and a Bachelor Musicology.
Likewise, we must also highlight the launch of the School of Flamenco Arts, regulated training courses in the areas of singing, dancing, guitar and percussion.
Another action that was announced during the presentation of the Chair, is the execution of gastronomic events, with the aim of deepening the link between gastronomy and flamenco through the fusion of the same is done in the days Culinary del Cante de las Minas and the Meeting of Haute Cuisine by Cantes Levante.
Source: UCAM
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