The dulzaina It is the instrument that has marked the life of Juan José Cid, ‘Zapatones’. master of mastersone of his host towns, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, where he has been a teacher at the Municipal School of Music, pays tribute to him.
The work of this musical heir to Agapito Marazuela made the dulzaina popular among the gurriatos and more and more people were interested in learning the instrument. Years later, in 2001, the Dulzaina School was integrated into the “Maestro Alonso” Municipal School of Music and Dance, of which it continues to be a part, with David Huerta as a teacher today.
In recognition of the work of ‘Zapatones’ as promoter of the dulzainera tradition in the townon January 26, the Plenary of the City Council approved granting him the Medal of Artistic Merit of San Lorenzo de El Escorialwhich will materialize in an act This Saturday, March 4, at seven in the afternoon at the Real Coliseo Carlos III with the participation of the municipal dulzaina schools of El Espinar (Segovia), Cercedilla, El Escorial and San Lorenzo de El Escorial, as well as other groups of dulzaina players.
Y Zapatones appreciates it because he has a special affection for Real Sitieither. “I was registered in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, I lived in the Valley of the Fallen, until I got married. I have always been linked to San Lorenzo and they have welcomed me very well. The town and the people it has are wonderful,” he says Juanjo, who explains to COPE de la SIERRA that the nickname comes from his school days. “When I was a kid, my mother sent me to class with big shoes those of punta what they had outgrown my father. He told me ‘son, they’re worth it’ and the compañeros ‘zapatones, zapatones’… well, with Zapatones I stayed”.
The affection he feels for San Lorenzo is reciprocal. From among their miles from dulzaina students, as displayed by a button. Three of them they do not hesitate to qualify him as a father. “For me he is a second father, he has taught me how to live, values that respect both the instrument and the world that surrounds it,” says one, “He has been like a father who teaches you how to function in life,” he says. other. “We have grown up with him,” concludes the third.
All of them and many more will be this Saturday giving him a deserved tribute who has as agenda for the day a parade at one in the afternoona photographic exhibition in the House of Culture with images of these 30 years of dulzainera tradition by the hand of Juan José Cid and the delivery of the Medal at seven in the Real Coliseo Carlos III.
It must be remembered that the Dulzaina Classroom of the Municipal School of Music and Dance and other groups of dulzaineros regularly participate in events such as the Pilgrimage of the Virgen de Gracia, Patron Saint Festivities, San Antón and San Sebastián Festivities, Meeting of Giants and Big-headed , Rondón contra el Cáncer and many other activities that are no longer understood without the ambient sound of the dulzainas.
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