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Hold on to a lamppost with both hands and take an impossible horizontal mime artist position while a damned wind tries to take you to a gigantic bonfire that swallows all of the oxygen hundreds of meters around. The same oxygen that thousands of people will lack of, who will die suffocated while sheltering in the basements of the city. To complete the picture, let your face express the horror that produces being outright devoured, as an advertising paper thrown on the ground and caught by this incredible mountain fire, so intense it could be cut with a saw. Many witnessed this scene the night of February 1945 in the city of Dresden, when it was all turned into a foundry of human beings because of the bombing of the Allies. <\/span><\/p>\n

And this is the same square I crossed one morning. time ago, to go to my first rehearsal of “Retablo de Maese Pedro” by Falla, although this day the cobalt blue sky seemed to be settled by a car manufacturer, without the scrawl of any cloud in a sky so splendid that you feel like you are not believing what you are seeing. <\/span><\/p>\n

Nowadays, in Dresden Altmarktes Square you can see many tourists, children, patisseries, curvy ladies with vintage dressed selling tickets to a concert, cafes that sell apflestrudels made by an endless number of clandestine grandmothers, a hot dog stand and, above all a dry and harsh cold that everyone knows out of place but it is the same as ever.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the other side of the square, the Kultur Palast, the rehearsal venue on the Dresdner Philharmonie and the conductor Fr\u00fchbeck of Burgos with whom I have this first trial. And in that ride I am tying up loose ends and tightening the nuts of the Retable, adjusting the pilot whales, wondering if I will have left something in the studio, if any note is willing to fool me by hiding and appearing later on in the middle of my rehearsal looking at me with a \u201cdidn\u2019t you see me before?\u201d face.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am checking against the rhythms in my memory, the <\/span>ritardandos<\/span><\/i>, the <\/span>pesante<\/span><\/i>, the <\/span>breve puntillo<\/span><\/i> until I reach an agreement with myself that I have studied the piece and that Master Fr\u00fchbeck will find everything in place. However, this does not keep my stomach from tingling, something that has nothing to do with my breakfast.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fr\u00fchbeck comes in with the energy of a Manhattan executive. Besides me, my colleagues and excellent singers Gustavo Pena and Rachel Lojendio and, as if they were doing a magic trick with the baton, all notes start to sound one after the other, all in the correct place, in the right measure, without stomping into each other with the elegance of a neoclassical museum. When I\u2019m about to start to sing, I can see it\u2019s going to be like those waves on the beach of Zarautz that take me to the shore on my lucky days, and this is the way we all finish the piece, where the composers set two lines that look like the train railways. And The Master, with a voice that could cut the air, tells me the typical \u201cYou have done a great job\u201d that sounds to me like a war medal.<\/span><\/p>\n

I go back to the hotel. Although it is the same square, this time seems more suggesting, as if the fire had never broken a plate and I think of Don Quixote, the character I play in the Retablo, and I feel relief that his novel has not run into the perplexing human flags that, for sure, would have brought them more madness to his madness.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since then, there are many crosswise squares until you reach the Retablo that those days I was singing again in Zaragoza with the Enigma Orquestra, created by gourmet musicians, top-notch musicians with whom you could jump of the Niagara Falls and end up without any splash after. They are directed by Juan Jose Olivares that goes into the same Christmas gift box and with whom I have shared Vienna as a study city although at various times. He is the author of the orquestra and the responsible of its exceptional quality. A couple of years ago I had the chance to sing under his leadership \u201cLlanto por la muerte de Ignacio Sanchez Mej\u00edas” by Maurice Ohana that, despite the title, it gave us much joy. And, already then, I brought imported home part of the extraordinary talent of Master Olives.<\/span><\/p>\n

Except for the wind, which seems the same, there are not many common places between Dresden and Zaragoza, beyond the fact that in both cities, two great Spanish masters raise their baton and that in both of them, Alonso Quijano has kindly agreed to make use of my voice to talk to the world.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Texto” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”center” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]\n

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Hold on to a lamppost with both hands and take an impossible horizontal mime artist position while a damned wind tries to take you to a gigantic bonfire that swallows all of the oxygen hundreds of meters around. The same oxygen that thousands of people will lack of,who will die suffocated while sheltering in the basements of the city<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"

Ag\u00e1rrese a una farola con las dos manos y adopte una postura horizontal de mimo imposible mientras un viento del carajo intenta llev\u00e1rselo a una gigantesca hoguera que se come el ox\u00edgeno de todo lo que hay en cientos de metros alrededor. El mismo oxigeno que les va a faltar a miles de personas que van a morir asfixiadas mientras se refugian en los s\u00f3tanos de la ciudad. Para completar el cuadro exprese en sus facciones el horror que le produce saberse devorado en unos instantes como un papel publicitario tirado en el suelo por esa monta\u00f1a incre\u00edble de fuego tan intensa que podr\u00eda cortarse con una sierra. Esta es la escena que vieron muchos testigos la noche de febrero de 1945 en que la ciudad de Dresde se transformo en una fundici\u00f3n de seres humanos con el bombardeo de los aliados.<\/p>

Y esta es la misma plaza que cruzo una ma\u00f1ana hace tiempo para dirigirme a mi primer ensayo del \"Retablo de Maese Pedro\" de Falla, aunque este d\u00eda el azul cobalto del cielo parece colocado por un fabricante de coches, sin el rayajo de una sola nube en un cielo tan espl\u00e9ndido que ganas dan de no cre\u00e9rselo.<\/p>[caption id=\"attachment_56\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"189\"]\"\"<\/a> Alfredo Garc\u00eda como Don Quijote en \"El Caballero de la Triste Figura\" de Tom\u00e1s Marco[\/caption]

En la plaza del Altmarktes de Dresde hoy se ven muchos turistas, ni\u00f1os, pasteler\u00edas, exhuberantes se\u00f1oras vestidas de \u00e9poca que venden entradas para alg\u00fan concierto, cafeter\u00edas con Apflestrudels hechos por un sinf\u00edn de abuelas clandestinas, alg\u00fan puesto de salchichas y sobre todo un fr\u00edo seco y duro que todo el mundo sabe fuera de lugar pero que es de all\u00ed de toda la vida de dios<\/p>

Al otro lado de la plaza, el Kultur Palast, la sala de ensayo sede la Dresdner Philharmonie y el Maestro Fr\u00fchbeck de Burgos con quien tengo ese primer ensayo. Y en ese paseo voy atando los cabos y repasando todas las tuercas del Retablo, ajustando los calderones, pregunt\u00e1ndome si me habr\u00e9 dejado algo en el estudio, si a alguna nota le habr\u00e1 dado por hacerme una broma y esconderse para luego presentarse ah\u00ed en medio del ensayo como si nada y poner cara de \u00bfpero no me hab\u00edas visto?<\/p>

Voy cotejando los tiempos en mi memoria, los ritardando, los pesante, los breves puntillos hasta que voy llegando a un acuerdo conmigo mismo que consiste en concluir que me lo he estudiado y que el Maestro Fr\u00fchbeck va a encontrarlo todo en su sitio. Pero eso no me quita un aleteo estomacal que nada tiene que ver con el desayuno.<\/p>

El Maestro Fr\u00fchbeck entra con la energ\u00eda de un ejecutivo de Manhattan. Junto a m\u00ed, mis compa\u00f1eros y excelentes cantantes Gustavo Pe\u00f1a y Raquel Lojendio y como si hiciese un truco de magia con la batuta, empiezan a sonar todas las notas una detr\u00e1s de otra, todas en su sitio, con su justa medida, sin darse pisotones, con una elegancia de museo neocl\u00e1sico. Cuando voy a empezar a cantar, \u00a0ya voy viendo que va a ser como esas olas que en la playa de Zarautz me llevaban hasta la orilla los d\u00edas de suerte, y es as\u00ed como llegamos todos al final de la obra, donde los compositores ponen dos rayas que parecen el final de las v\u00edas del tren. Y el Maestro con esa voz de cortar los aires suelta eso de \"Lo ha hecho usted muy bien\" que a mi me suena como una condecoraci\u00f3n de guerra.<\/p>

Vuelvo al hotel, es la misma plaza pero parece m\u00e1s prometedora, como si el fuego nunca hubiese roto un plato y pienso en El Quijote que es el personaje que encarno en el Retablo y siento un alivio de que en su novela no se haya topado con esas desconcertantes banderas humanas que de seguro le habr\u00edan tra\u00eddo la locura a su locura.<\/p>

Hay muchas plazas cruzadas desde entonces hasta llegar al \"Retablo\" que vuelvo a cantar estos d\u00edas en Zaragoza con la Orquesta Enigma, formada por m\u00fasicos salidos de la tienda del Gourmet, m\u00fasicos de pata negra con quien uno podr\u00eda tirarse por las cataratas del Ni\u00e1gara cantando y acabar sin salpicaduras despu\u00e9s del salto. Los dirige Juan Jos\u00e9 Olives que entra en la misma cesta de Navidad y con quien he compartido Viena como ciudad de estudio aunque en diferentes \u00e9pocas y que es el autor de la orquesta y el responsable de su excepcional calidad. Hace un par de a\u00f1os pude cantar bajo su direcci\u00f3n \"El llanto por la muerte de Ignacio S\u00e1nchez Mej\u00edas\" de Maurice Ohana que a pesar del t\u00edtulo nos proporcion\u00f3 mucha alegr\u00eda. Y ya entonces me traje de importaci\u00f3n parte del extraordinario talento del Maestro Olives para casa.<\/p>

Salvo el viento, que parece el mismo, no hay muchos lugares comunes entre Dresde y Zaragoza, m\u00e1s all\u00e1 de que en ambas ciudades alcen su batuta dos grandes maestros espa\u00f1oles y de que en ambas Alonso Quijano haya tenido a bien hacer uso de mi voz para hablarle al mundo.<\/p>

Manuel de Falla. El Retablo de Maese Pedro<\/a>. Auditorio de Zaragoza 13 de marzo de 2010.<\/p>

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Juan Jos\u00e9 Olives<\/a>, director<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[56,79],"tags":[60,59,61],"yoast_head":"\nThe Retablo de Falla and the two winds - Alfredo Garc\u00eda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hold on to a lamppost with both hands and take an impossible horizontal mime artist position while a damned wind tries to take you to a gigantic bonfire that swallows all of the oxygen hundreds of meters around.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/alfredogarcia.com\/english\/blog\/the-retablo-de-falla-and-the-two-winds\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Retablo de Falla and the two winds - Alfredo Garc\u00eda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hold on to a lamppost with both hands and take an impossible horizontal mime artist position while a damned wind tries to take you to a gigantic bonfire that swallows all of the oxygen hundreds of meters around.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/alfredogarcia.com\/english\/blog\/the-retablo-de-falla-and-the-two-winds\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Alfredo Garc\u00eda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-03-07T22:25:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-09-06T17:14:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/alfredogarcia.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/03\/CoroDeLaComunidadDeMadrid-ChristaCowrie_12b.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2002\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1334\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Alfredo Garc\u00eda\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Alfredo Garc\u00eda\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/alfredogarcia.com\/english\/blog\/the-retablo-de-falla-and-the-two-winds\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/alfredogarcia.com\/english\/blog\/the-retablo-de-falla-and-the-two-winds\/\",\"name\":\"The Retablo de Falla and the two winds - 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