Fellow fans…
Mexico, as Manolo Molés told me recently at the San Isidro Fair, “can never be left out of bullfighting.”
For its bullfighters, for its bulls, for its people, and for its music.
Right now we are experiencing the San Fermín Fair in Pamplona, where at times it seems like you are in Mexico, when you listen to “El Rey”, the mythical work of José Alfredo Jiménez, or “Cielito lindo”, which Quirino Mendoza immortalized with his music and other voices gave it greatness.
Pablo Hermoso de Mendoza, now as Mexican as he is Spanish, brought a mariachi band to his farewell to San Fermín, to hear “El Rey” and sing it at the top of his lungs like the nearly 20 thousand spectators who filled the arena on La Misericordia Street. Roca Rey also smiled when they sang it when he was bullfighting yesterday.
Those minutes with Manolo Molés, who revolutionized the way bullfighting news is reported in the Spanish media, served to express the affection of the Iberian professionals towards Mexican bullfighting. “You have a ring for 50 thousand people and when you shout “olé”, you drive anyone crazy,” he told me.
And I also told him that we have much more than olés and bullrings. We Mexicans have people with feelings like the unforgettable Agustín Lara who composed “Silverio”, great poets and we adopt many who come to Mexico and become fond of them, among them many bullfighters. Hermoso, Enrique Ponce, El Juli, José Tomás, of the recent ones, and in other times, Manolete, Paco Camino.
It is a brotherhood. Bullfighting is as Spanish by birth as it is Mexican by adoption.— Gaspar Silveira
#Bullfights #pride #Rey #Cielito #Lindo
2024-07-27 03:19:09
