solea1 -> RE: List of "Rito y Geografía" YouTube URL's (May 13 2014 7:14:14)
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Thanks, Tommyberre -- I've corrected that url mistake (and added a few more programs: Rafael Romero, Luís Caballero, Diego Clavel. I'll try to get the last eight (?) shows up on YouTube somehow, someday -- I don't know the process, will have to consult with a third grader if I can afford her hourly fee. The absent programs would be: Solea 2 -- Terrific, almost as good as Solea 1. I think this one has singers Santiago Donday and the blind María la Sabina, plus the terrific El Borrico with guitarist Manuel Morao. Festival del Cante -- Neat -- A remarkable solo bulerías by Diego del Gastor at the Morón Gazpacho -- at the end he sort of shares credit with his guitar, gets up very quickly and leaves the stage, showing his genuine diffidence (at best) about being in a high-visibilty setting. José Menese sings to Diego's accompaniment. (Menese's taking a lot of heat these days for his take-no-prisoners defense of traditional Gypsy song, which is out of fashion It used to be called pure; now it is called "pure", in a tone of condescending irony. No, it's not mere chauvinism -- Menese is not a gitano. Powerful? Well, if we couldn't afford to pay the 100-peseta admission to a festival, we'd hang around outside the gates waiting to accost the artists afterward. From outside, we could rarely hear anything -- until Menese let loose.) Antonio Mairena is accompanied by Pedro Peña and Paco del Gastor (Diego evidently refused to play for him). (There may be two different programs titled "Festival del Flamenco".) Los Flamencólogos -- Gab, gab -- shows why real artists ridicule us self-styled experts. (The superb guitarist Emilio Prados, who thought Agujetas was a bad singer and had heard about an article where I insisted he was the Second Coming, announced my arrival in a New York dive with, "Ah, here is our friend the flamencúlogo." [In Spain, your culo is what you sit on.]) Manuel Cano's formal guitar playing interrupts the punditry. Encarnación La Sallago -- A wonderful singer and wonderful woman. (She cooks for me when I visit her in Sanlúcar de Barrameda.) Two years ago, at the Sala Compañía underneath our apartment in Jerez, she tore the place up with powerful singing and great stories. Did I mention she was 93? (Check out her translated interview in my blog. She laments the death of a brother in the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic that swept the world -- and didn't start in Spain -- with still-fresh grief.) Maria La Marrurra -- Moreen Silver, a Jacksonville, Florida woman whose command of flamenco singing is downright uncanny, made an LP with the glorious guitarist Melchor de Marchena, who was a fan of hers as was the great singer Antonio Mairena. With her husband, the late guitarist Chris Carnes, she made recordings that are the best audio documents of great Gypsy song done between the mid-sixties and mid-seventies. She has had some difficulties lately, and friends are working to make things easier for her. (She did a guest gig on a 2011 Spanish TV show that's on YouTube, lookin' good and soundin' fine.) Pericón de Cádiz -- A great master of a glorious local tradition. One of the best moments in the TV series is when he starts singing, the phone rings (I'm told it's his daughter on the line), he picks it up and tries to explain that he's being filmed. "Yes. they are making a film. No, I can't talk right now. A film. Yes. So I can't talk. Because of the film" And on and on. Cinema verité de verdad... Las Torre -- I think this episode focuses on two daughters of Manuel Torre, the maximum exponent of deep Gypsy song. But if it's Los Torre, it would be the family guys. Anthropologically interesting, perhaps. Antonio de Canillas -- Malaga area singer, a non-Gypsy born in 1929 who was still singing the lovely songs of his home territory nearly eighty years later. There may be a 100th episode that celebrated and concluded the series by looking back at highlights. It may have been titled "Rito y Geografía del Flamenco". It might be in my collection as simply "Cante Flamenco" -- I'll try to figure it out.
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