The show will be at 7:00 p.m., at the Teatro Centro Cívico Eloy Alfaro. Admission will be free, but with a capacity of 50% (800 attendees).
The Orquesta Sinfónica de Guayaquil (OSG) will offer today, Friday, at 7:00 p.m., a second concert to commemorate its 72nd anniversary, at the Teatro Centro Cívico Eloy Alfaro (Av. Quito and Bolivia). The first took place on Thursday, November 4, the date on which its appearance on the cultural scene of this city is officially celebrated. The name day of this public entity, which is in charge of the Ministry of Culture and Heritage, coincides with an extraordinary historical moment of its performance, under the musical direction of the Italian-Argentine master Dante Santiago Anzolini, who has held that position since April 2017.
One of Anzolini’s earliest achievements was bring renowned American composer Philip Glass, in December of that year, to participate in a concert with them. Another great success was when in June 2018 they had a presentation dedicated to the work of the Ecuadorian composer Luis Humberto Salgado, considered the greatest composer born in Ecuador, with three of his symphonies: Andean, Synthetic and ADGE. And last July they played with the German violinist Leon Spierer, ex-concertino (lead musician) of the Berlin and Stockholm Symphony Orchestras, who is a celebrity in Europe.
In these last four years they have also stood out in opera concerts, with La Boheme (April 2018) and The Traviata (May 2019), and in ballet music, with Spring consecration (June 2017), The transfigured night and Fire bird (both in 2019, with the En-Avant Dance Company), among other achievements.
Added to this is the group’s performance in these times of health crisis. “The pandemic has hit us all. In the midst of so much adversity, We were the first orchestra in Latin America to appear playing in face-to-face events, on July 23, 2020… We spent our 71st anniversary in the middle of the pandemic. And now we have the 72nd anniversary coming out of the pandemic ”, he says.
This situation forced its 72 musicians to rehearse with restrictions, such as the use of masks, physical distancing (which motivated them to work in groups, such as brass, winds, strings …) and even to manage themselves through videoconferences and recordings. Of video. In addition, Anzolini began to teach virtual classes to a score of children from the Society for the Fight Against Cancer to form a child-youth orchestra, which continues to develop. “We invented it in the pandemic… Thanks to the administration, in charge of Carmen Roca Silva placeholder image, who has already retired, and my initiatives, the OSF has completed projects that had never been done before ”. They also put together their own choir.
Despite all the sanitary restrictions, the level of the musicians has grown, since working in the midst of these difficulties caused unprecedented demands that increased their individual and collective effort. “Today the orchestra has a higher individual quality than last year.”
All this will be evidenced in the concert that will take place today, which will be dled by the teacher Victhoria Pérez, 30-year-old Venezuelan, who has served as assistant director since August 2019, since Anzolini is on medical leave. The recital will bring together “The most popular European music classics with the most classical popular Ecuadorians”, says Anzolini as an appropriate play on words that explains the union of emblematic themes of classical music with songs by the immortal Julio Jaramillo.
Victhoria points out that they will open with the overture of The poacher by Carl Maria von Weber, followed by Beethoven’s Symphony 6, entitled Pastoral, inspired by country life. The latter mimics sounds of nature, such as streams, birds, and storms.
“To show the variety and possibilities that we have as an orchestra, we also took the great Julio Jaramillo with some of his most popular songs,” adds Pérez, as Deny everything, Five centavitos, Guayaquileña, and more, with the soloist Darío García, known for his great interpretation of the music of the Nightingale of America. “The director Dante Anzolini has wanted the Symphony Orchestra to share not only academic music, but also the popular and traditional music of the city,” he concludes.
The concert will have free and free admission, but with a capacity of 50% (800 attendees). (I)
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