Cantos Cautivos

51 results where found for «Cantata Santa María de Iquique»

We Shall Overcome

Music piece by:

Attributed to Charles Albert Tindley

Testimony by:

Alfonso Padilla Silva

Experience in:

Cárcel de Concepción / Cárcel El Manzano, December 1974

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« When the concentration camp that operated for nearly five months at the Regional Stadium of Concepción was closed in early February 1974, hundreds of political prisoners were transferred to the Concepción Prison, a wing of which was turned into a concentration camp. »

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« These performances were divided in two parts, each lasting around 40 minutes. In one we presented the Cantata of Santa María de Iquique, but that's another story. »

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Cantata Santa María de Iquique

Music piece by:

Luis Advis

Testimony by:

Alfonso Padilla

Experience in:

Campamento Prisioneros Estadio Regional, 1975

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« Between March 1974 and July 1975, I had the opportunity to arrange about 200 songs and direct the production of the Cantata de Santa María de Iquique. In truth, the prison was my conservatoire. That’s where I learnt the basics of the profession of musician. »

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Song to the Pampa (Canto a la pampa)

Music piece by:

poem by Francisco Pezoa Astudillo set to music by Quilapayún

Testimony by:

Renato Alvarado

Experience in:

Campamento de Prisioneros Cuatro Álamos, February 1975

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« The first song that we managed to sing was Quilapayún's setting of the poem Canto a la Pampa (Song to the Pampa), by the anarchist poet Francisco Pezoa Astudillo, which recounts one of the bloodiest episodes of the class struggle in Chile: the massacre of the Santa María school in Iquique in December 1907. The prisoners of the large Room 13 of Cuatro Álamos camp sang it complete and as a chorus around February 1975. »

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Cantata Our Great Mother (Cantata Nuestra Madre Grande) - Towards the Light (Hacia la luz)

Music piece by:

Manuel Luis Rodríguez Uribe (lyrics), Fernando Lanfranco Leverton (music), Marco Antonio Barticevic Sapunar (notation)

Testimony by:

Fernando Lanfranco Leverton

Experience in:

Campamento de Prisioneros Isla Dawson, December 1973; Cárcel de Punta Arenas, September 1975

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« Most of us, political prisoners from the Magallanes region, were transferred to the detention and torture camp on Dawson Island on 21 December 1973. We came from the more than twenty detention, torture and interrogation centres of the civil-military dictatorship in the Magallanes region. »

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« The Cantata had a pre-premiere in September 1975 in the Cárcel Pública, on the occasion of the anniversary of the Communist Youth. The performance was in the sector occupied by the political prisoners, segregated from the common prisoners. Naturally, it was very stealthy. The prison guards didn't find out about it, so there were no reprisals. The Cantata was discussed, and I sang about three songs. It was very moving. »

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Story of the Chair (Historia de la silla)

Music piece by:

Silvio Rodríguez

Testimony by:

Eduardo Andrés Arancibia Ortiz

Experience in:

Cárcel de Santiago, 1990

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« This was one of the songs Silvio Rodríguez sang to us the day he visited the political prisoners in Santiago’s Public Jail in 1990. »

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« No less important are the memories of visits by Joan Manuel Serrat and the concert given to us by Illapu, deploying a full technical array. During my long stretch in prison, I also became acquainted with a cantata by the political prisoners, an anecdote of resistance in the face of the oft-repeated ban of our subversive songs. »

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Recinto: Comisaría de Carabineros, Santa María