It is a hilarious comedy based on tangos, boleros and habaneras by the composer Julián Santos, full of passion and hope
El Jumillano «Julián Santos was a prolific composer who cultivated practically all musical styles, and at the same time very permeable to the uprooted character of the tango. Tango comes from the mixing of cultures, and Santos is a kind of melting pot of musical styles, which is why he expressed himself so brilliantly through tango, precisely because of this ability to mix different kinds of styles». This is how Jumillano journalist José García Martínez defined it in an unpublished text about the show that opens this weekend – today and tomorrow at 9 p.m. – the Teatro Vico de Jumilla, ‘Tango Tirao’. It was supposed to come out last March and eventually it got delayed.
«Among his scores was a small collection of tangos, boleros and habaneras typical of the period in which the 1940s and 1950s were written, although in the newspaper LA VERDAD on January 23, 1933 we have a reference to a premiere in the Teatro Vico the one in which Miss Nené Cutillas masterfully sang the tango ‘Maipú Picalle Cabaret’ and had to be approved. There are twelve tangos that maestro Santos wrote, which together with some beautiful boleros and a habanera form the soundtrack of this musical, ‘Tango Tirao'”, said García Martínez in this text that he sent to LA VERDAD in March and did not do with postponement has been published.
«We also know that some of them premiered with the orchestras that the maestro directed, as they were part of the repertoire of some of his variety shows such as Cocktail, Bric a Brac, Música en la Noche, etc. with Maipú, La Ley del barrio, Tango Tirao, etc. As with other works of his, Julián Santos dedicates some of them to people for whom he felt a special affection and thereby gives them a more personal and programmatic touch, with evocative and evocative titles such as those dedicated to Victoriana Guardiola ‘Cabecita loca’ , or his friend the poet Camilo Valenzuela ‘Ausencia’, with whom he wrote Farruca and longed for, he had dedicated Jumilla or ‘Penas’ to his wife Asunción Espinosa de los Monteros, oddly enough published by the publishing house Impresos Musicales Ordorika in Bilbao ».
According to García Martínez, the tangos of maestro Santos have «that porteño, River Plate aroma, and they were arranged for the occasion by the Uruguayan composer Jorge Taramasco, who gave them a more up-to-date look, meaning more with what this entertaining musical. Julián Santos was always in love with tango, he told in his radio interviews how he liked to accompany fans in dancing the tango, something that happened very often when he went to Yecla to play the piano in the evenings of the Society of Hunters, where he was very regularly asked and where tangos were never lacking in their repertoire».
The musical has Pedro Valero as musical director and Diego Carvajal as stage director: the lyrics are by Eugenio Santos and the music is by Julián Santos, with arrangements by Taramasco. On stage, the UCAM Symphony Orchestra puts on a show for all audiences with outstanding performers, including Romina Balestrino and Fiorella Pedrazzini.
Source: La Verdad
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