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He points out that recognition of the Festival spreads throughout the land of song, throughout Spain, his fame transcends borders and encompasses the entire world "
President of the Community, Ramón Luis Valcárcel, praised tonight at the International Festival of the Union for "making many mining singing that arises in the solitude of his cave."
Valcárcel, who said he was "greatly honored and deeply grateful" for his election as town crier of the contest, gave the opening speech of the 50 th International Festival of Cante de las Minas de la Union, which he defined as "cultural emblem not only of Murcia Region, but throughout Spain. "
Murcia The Chief Executive stressed that "in La Union, Flamenco is not interpreted, does not repeat or remember, in La Union, we are witnessing, again and again, his birth, his first dramatic, electrifying, even painful ".
And all of this justified, because "the singing mining is done with the material and human bitter regret, nay, I dare say that the heart of the song contains the most intimate and incorruptible of mining: the complaint."
On the locality for 50 years hosting the festival, Valcarcel said: "The Union, like all great nations, is a tale singular fact of the matter of each of the voices that have lived and sung," and noted that the sound of his songs "is a sound stolen from the mines, in itself, is pure interiority that still retains the earthy smell, touch wet rock."
He also recalled that "the recognition of the Festival is not limited to this blessed corner of Spain, but extends throughout the land of song, by the whole nation, nay, his fame transcends borders and encompasses the entire world, there where the Spanish is as well known as admired. "
He had, also, words of praise to the old public market of La Union, the so-called 'Cathedral of Cante', "a monumental exhibition become the beacon of culture Murcia in the summer, an international benchmark of deep feeling, the hunch saw ancient mining, the residents of those villages Garbanzal and The Blacksmith who joined in 1868 to open the promising future of this village. "
Valcárcel recalled that October 13, 1961, "when the efforts of the then ruler of La Union, Esteban Bernal Carrasco, and other prominent sons of this city as the unforgettable Asensio Sáez, Pedro Manuel Pedroza Garnish Pagan and made it possible to start up of this Festival. "
The best possible place to live flamenco
A date emblematic of that first edition, which "was difficult to foresee that the Cante de las Minas would-as it is" the best possible place to live flamenco in the area, an almost tangible, as if were an unmediated reality, offered directly, in all its rawness, "he said.
"En La Union is known, by history and almost genetically one of the few ways to make lighter, more bearable, the pain is to name through song," he explained.
In this fiftieth anniversary of Cante de las Minas, the regional chief executive had an impact on "the importance of an event like this should not be measured solely by the brilliant and moving story written in this half century, but also and above all, by the enormous future that this great heritage is capable of projecting. "
After paying "well-deserved tribute to all those who, with his effort and his love of flamenco and La Union, have taken this project forward, even when the winds were blowing in favor," Valcarcel said "it is time to look ahead and convinced that the best is yet to come. "
Source: CARM
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