This week we’re celebrating a vital occasion for SAYCO; Properly, 45 years in the past, extra exactly, on July 1, 1979, the governor of Meta at the moment, Hernando Ruíz Castro, introduced by means of order 387, the Official Anthem of the province, probably the most stunning musical compositions of the employees nationwide. , the passage “Oh, My Savior”, written by our companion Grasp Arnulfo Briceño Contreras (RIP).
Maestro Briceño’s motivation to make this musical work goes again to his scholar days. As soon as, he advised in an interview that his curiosity within the Japanese Plains was born when he needed to do nationwide historical past work in his native Cúcuta, which led him to to recreate the liberation work; an journey that may encourage his nice respect for this stunning area of Colombia; a lot in order that at one level he expressed…” Many occasions I needed to reply I sang to the Llano; not being a llanero, as a result of he has entered my soul, as a result of I see him as a well-born llanero and as all Colombians ought to really feel proud.”
Lastly, that llanero “bewitchment” was seen in numerous works and one in every of them is “Oh My Jane” a wonderful piece that turned recognized when it first passed off on the VI Nationwide Tune Pageant in Colombia in 1967, in Villavicencio. From that second on, the attractive description of the plains space started to take a particular place within the middle of town. “I had Llano in my soul, in my thoughts, in my coronary heart. So, someday with out a lot enthusiasm, however with love, a music was born that speaks of its panorama, the worth of its folks and that claims within the title of Colombia all the things they imply to our republican life. That is how ‘Ay mi plain’ was born…
On this manner SAYCO asking, on a day like in the present day, to enlarge the nice contribution of our remembered companion Arnulfo Briceno Contreras (RIP), to our nation’s musical legacy, and who died, sadly, on the top of his profession and about to show 51, in a airplane crash on June 11, 1989.
… “The elevation of my verse ‘Ay mi plain’ to the part of the Meta Part Hymn is unquestionably the best satisfaction of my modest life as a author…. Mr. Arnulfo Briceno
