Bellas Artes decorates ‘The Bolero Pageant, from Mexico and Cuba to the world’

Mexico Metropolis. This Saturday was a historic night time on the Palacio de Bellas Artes. Another stripe on the tiger in its 9 a long time of existence, which might be celebrated this 2024. It was the night time of the Bolero Pageant of Mexico and Cuba for the world.

This was the title of the grand live performance with which this musical style entered the nation’s largest cultural venue, “from which it should by no means depart,” in line with the top of the federal Ministry of Tradition, Alejandra Frausto,

This was the way in which wherein the Mexican authorities celebrated the inscription of the bolero on the Consultant Listing of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the United Nations Instructional, Scientific and Cultural Group (UNESCO), carried out on December 5, 2023, primarily based on the binational file introduced by our nation and Cuba.

Earlier than the celebratory live performance, in a room full of the general public, a proper ceremony happened wherein the federal Secretary of Tradition introduced the creation in our nation of the Casa del Bolero Roberto Cantoral, which can occupy the previous household house of the deceased composer (1935-2010), she stated, due to the generosity of his household.

The inventive half introduced collectively for round two and a half hours a galaxy of 20 singers and musicians from Mexico and Cuba, each soloists and duets, trios and quartets, along with the Carlos Chávez Faculty Orchestra, of the Nationwide System for Musical Promotion.

Among the many nationwide artists, Tania Libertad, Eugenia León, Regina Orozco, Jorge Coque Muñiz and Carlos Cuevas have been included and have been enthusiastically applauded by the viewers, as a part of the consecrated ones, which additionally included La Sonora Santanera, Los Macorinos and Mariachi 2000.

There was additionally room for younger individuals, equivalent to Las Hermanas García, Enarmoniatrio, La Marisoul and Los Miranda, who have been dedicated to preserving this romantic style alive for brand new generations.

The Caribbean nation, in the meantime, was represented by the pianist and singer Argelia Fragoso, together with her imposing voice of thunder and filin, in addition to by the singer Eduardo Sosa, who added spice to the night.

This system had one thing for everybody. Bolero accompanied by piano and guitar, trio and symphonic, and northern, suburban and ranchero bolero. There have been 33 songs of those hits, which sing about love and heartbreak, which make you sigh and make your pores and skin really feel like hen pores and skin.

A flood of composers gathered for a historic musical occasion: Agustín Lara, Ernesto Duarte, Mario Ruiz Armengol, Manuel Esperón, César Portillo de la Luz, Armando Manzanero, Martín Urieta, Ema Elena Valdelamar, Luis Demetrio, Fernando Fuentes and José Alfredo Jiménez, to call just a few.

Most of the best hits of the style, equivalent to Ɓésame mucho, by Consuelo Velázquez, probably the most recorded tune in historical past; classics by Los Panchos, equivalent to Contigo and Sin ti; Sabor a mí and Seguiré mi viaje, by Álvaro Carrillo; a medley with songs by Roberto Cantoral, equivalent to Reloj and La barca, flowed from the voices of those artists and penetrated deep into the spirit of the viewers, who ultimately gave a thunderous ovation to those that made this unrepeatable night time doable.