‘Merere Guapinensis’
Carlos Andrés Mejía Zualuga, is the composer of the work ‘Miserere Guapinensis’ and is the one who will be the musical director next Tuesday, April 4 at 7:30 p.m. at the Santiago Londoño Theater, an event that will be free to enjoy of symphonic music lovers from Pereira.
The work ‘Miserere Guapinensis’ is essentially a tribute to Colombia and in particular to the peoples of the southern Pacific of Cauca and especially to the town of Guapi, a town that presents itself as a safeguard of the musical cultural traditions of southwestern Colombia.
Marimba, Chonta and singers, women leaders who become alchemists of their community and who are capable of singing the sorrows and joys of the people.
This is a symphonic-choral work, with more than 100 artists on stage, from the café youth philharmonic orchestra in the company of the polyphonic choir of the Technological University of Pereira. Directed 18 years ago by the maestro Julio Mejía, who together with Carlos Andrés have built this production, the work will also count on the presence of a group of soloists such as the cantaora María José Gallego and the percussionist Sebastián Trejos.
The orchestra is made up of more than 40 musicians, the choir has 63 members plus the soloists, the narrator and the special participation of a group of percussionists from the Pacific that will have conunos, drums, bass drum, the guaza and the chonta marimba as an instrument. key to the work
Prior to the presentation of the work ‘Miserere Guapinensis’, the work Te Deum by Antonin Dvorak (Czech Composer) will be presented, soloists Juliana Ruiz soprano and Camilo Rodríguez baritone.
‘Merere Guapinensis’
The musical work ‘Miserere Guapinensis’ tells the story of a day in the town of Guapi, where in the first instance the narrator begins to decipher somewhat dark omens of nature that begins to show that something strange is looming.
The omen announces the arrival of violence in the town, which is the second part of the story where the men of the community resist as best they can the furious attack of violence that is part of a war that is not theirs, but the time is for everyone.
Death, sadness and destruction is the balance of war; The women gather in the river to mourn their dead and their children, this action will be reinforced by the song of the washerwomen that will be in charge of the soloist, who will be the catalytic instrument of sadness.
In the third moment of the work, the narrator will tell a story of reconciliation, peace and a new life that always awaits the peoples who unite under a national identity in search of prosperity and peace.
“This work has a mixture of contemporary music with a treatment that is not very usual in Colombia, without saying that it is absolutely new, because the orchestral and choral treatment of the work has already been presented for more than 100 years in the world, but if It is new, especially the combination of the elements of music from the Pacific where we will also hear, currulaos, bundes, alabaos and songs of the washerwomen” Carlos Andres Mejia Zualuga.
