2023-10-28 00:21:59
Artistic success in the sixth of the eight Flamenco Fridays of the Barakaldo Theater in its 27th edition. You entered by invitation, to collect at the box office, the numbered stalls were filled mainly with older ladies, and we enjoyed the world premiere of ‘Without limits’, a suite composed by the primarily flutist and to a lesser extent saxophonist Sergio de Lope (Priego from Córdoba, 1985), and perfectly executed with the Barakaldo Music Band directed by Alberto García. And they had only rehearsed twice!, on Thursday and Friday mornings.
As information, let’s say that this was the first of the four concerts that the Barakaldo Municipal Band will give in the fall. It will be followed by an anthology of zarzuela (November 24), a show called ‘New York, New York’ (December 15) and the New Year’s concert, with Viennese waltzes and polkas scheduled for January 4, 2024, year in which the band will celebrate its 125th anniversary.
The band’s thirty musicians joined Sergio De Lope’s trio, completed by the drummer Javier Rabadán and the singer Sergio El Colorao, who stood out despite singing surrounded by the scores, not corseted. In 69 minutes they performed 9 pieces in which the band and trio interacted together, and the composer De Lope blew the flute with a naturalness and importance superior to those of the maestro Jorge Pardo and the thriving Antonio Lizana, because what you can hear on their albums and on YouTube does not do justice to what we tasted this Friday, an impression shared by the leader, who smiled happily, snorted at the responsibility and in the end looked relieved, satisfied and undoubtedly grateful. His flutist solos included nods to the bolero ‘Historia de un Amor’ (the one about you are no longer at my side, sweetheart…), to ‘El manisero’, to ‘La tarara’… And several of those solos in a jazz club would have been applauded in full performance, but at the Barakaldo Theater they only applauded, and sincerely, at the end of each piece.
In the garrotín Ó. c.
De Lope, elegant and similar in appearance to the Asturian pilot Fernando Alonso, opened with a lullaby reminiscent of the work that the Getxo director Fernando Velázquez faces in the macro concerts ‘Ure bere bidean’ (‘Mother Earth’). The ‘Tangos del buenosro’ seemed from New York (didn’t you notice bursts of Michael Nyman in the orchestration?), the band sounded powerful in the seguiriyas (‘Alpha’; here he blew his little soprano sax for the first time), funkies and seventies The tanguillos (‘They gave them something to talk’) turned out, the peak was experienced in the equator with the trio alone in ‘Toná & Bulerías’ and with the fandangos from Huelva who resembled Ennio Morricone in ‘Once upon a time in America’ ( ‘Candela’), they combined the garrotín and the guajira in ‘Ser de luz’ (also the title of Sergio de Lope’s latest album, whose repertoire included at least 6 of the 9 pieces presented), they said goodbye falsely with the sumptuousness of a television show seventies (‘En el Berlin’, by bulerías), and as an encore there was an off-program ‘La tarara’ (and similar to the tangos of the second number).
Before the encore, the director Alberto García Espina and the flutist spoke, who seemed pleased with the applause: «What a great joy, for God’s sake. I didn’t know that the Basques were so flamenco. They believe in culture. Investing in culture is investing in an educated and competitive people, and here is the example,” he flattered the ladies present. And he added: «Music is what makes me feel freer. And life, like music, has no limits », well you already know that he has titled ‘Without limits’ to this project that is supposed to travel, which will be repeated in more places. Let’s see if it fits so well that the Barakaldo Band scored at great heights.
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