International Festival of Living Arts Loja 2021: theater, cumbia and pop presentations are experienced in this new edition

The presentation of the Loja Symphony Orchestra was one of the activities that took place within the framework of the Fiavl.

Within the framework of International Festival of Living Arts Loja 2021 In its VI edition, the Loja Symphony Orchestra (OSL) presented its concert In memory of the victims of the pandemic.

About 60 musicians on the main stage of the Teatro Benjamín Carrión Mora and directed by the teacher William Vergara performed Clay pot by Gonzalo Benítez when we have the information.

Attendees, who almost filled the theater, also heard the Prelude to a Faun’s Nap by Claude Debussy and finally the Symphony No. 4 de Peter Tchaikovsky.

The festival delivered a diploma of recognition to the OSL for its important contribution in this edition. For its part, the OSL was present, through the delivery of a Galvano de cristal with the directors of the Benjamín Carrión Mora Theater, upon completing five years of presence and service.

In another scenario like he is Bolivar Theater, more than a hundred spectators were able to see the work Summer and Fleece of the Metamorphosis group of Costa Rica.

Based on the book of drawings of the magical world by the Costa Rican artist Luis Carballo Trejos, the choreographer performs a reading of the artist’s imagination and chooses two of his works in which she sees reflected in her inner struggle.

In the work the Vellocino, softness, flexibility and exuberance are present in addition to the vital need to accept themselves. The choreographic direction was in charge of Sol Carballo and the creative interpreters were Sol Carballo and Felipe Alvarado, while the musicalization depended on Fabrizio Walker and Ruth Ñicado in the costumes.

Metamorphosis is an independent interdisciplinary artistic group, formed in 1998, in coordination with the Spirogyra conservation project, Butterfly Garden, under the direction of Sol Carballo.

‘Metamorfosis’ works on proposals that fuse contemporary dance, theater, music, poetry, circus arts, plastic and visual arts.

Near this stage, the San Sebastian square in the center of the city it was completely full. Locals and visitors danced and saw the show of the Don Medardo and his Players orchestra, who sang well-known songs such as: Manabi mosaic, Now you can go, Cumbia chonera, Poor i am, The bride, where are you love, only you, among others.

An activity that paid tribute to the city of Loja through one of the oldest and most active orchestras in the country that was founded by Mr. Ángel Medardo Luzuriaga, who was born in Loja.

Don Medardo y sus Players, is an Ecuadorian cumbia orchestra, formed in 1967 by Medardo Luzuriaga. It is one of the most influential orchestras in Ecuador within the cumbia genre. At present it is made up of grandchildren, sons of Don Medardo, who form the Luzuriaga clan.

Private stages have also been activated in this edition of the festival, for example in La lojana, well-known bar of the city, the artist of Argentine birth, Sergio Sacoto He filled the stage and delighted the audience with his songs: you come back, go to Cancun, people do not respond, the sky fell and more. (I)

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