Tuesday, 02 July 2024 13:25
Soria ¡Ya! will defend within the regional Parliament that the songs from San Juan, the musical soundtrack of the San Juan festivities in Soria, be acknowledged as a Website of Cultural Curiosity (BIC).
Regional lawyer Ángel Ceña has said that the worth of those songs in Soria’s cultural heritage “deserves to be preserved.”
Soria ¡Ya! will defend its proposal on the Tradition Committee in early September.
The Sanjuanera songs are the soundtrack of the San Juan festivities. They’re 34 songs composed largely by Francisco García and Jesús Hernández over greater than fifty years of the twentieth century.
From 1934, with the Sanjuanera Lengthy dwell the JuraoFrancisco García Muñoz and Jesús Hernández de la Iglesia started to create the soundtrack for the festivities.
The Círculo Amistad Numancia recovered a Sanjuanera written and composed by Mariano Granados and Damián Balsa in 1899, entitled Lengthy dwell Soria! and is taken into account the primary within the historical past of the San Juan Pageant.
Francisco García Muñoz is the composer of the favored Sanjuanera songs and was director of the Municipal Band of Soria till his retirement in March 1932, fashioned at the moment by eighteen musicians from the defunct bands Lira Numantina and Provincial.
Jesús Hernández de la Iglesia is the writer of the lyrics of the Sanjuaneras from Soria.
“We agreed that our festivals had been missing some songs alluding to them, in a preferred model and ambiance, each in lyrics and music, that could possibly be sung by the individuals on the totally different occasions, and so within the 1934 Festivals we started the manufacturing of those songs with the premiere of ‘¡Viva el Jurao!’ which was properly obtained. This was adopted by the pasodoble ‘Fiestas de San Juan’ in 1936,” commented maestro Francisco García Muñoz on the time.
