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Calella De Palafrugell Fulmina ‘El Meu Avi’ in the Closing of the Most Famous Habanera Song
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Calella’s Habanera Singing already exceeds half a century of life and in the last 48 editions has ended with all the participating groups and the audience singing together El meu avi, one of the most emblematic pieces of Catalan popular music, composed in 1968 by Josep Lluís Ortega Monasterio. The song, converted into a symbol in Catalonia, pays tribute to the soldiers of Calella killed in the Cuban war. Continue reading
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The song will not culminate the traditional Calella singing for the first time in 50 years
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The habaneras of Calella de Palafrugell remain orphaned this year. The reason is the exclusion of the habanera ‘El meu avi’ as a traditional brooch of this summer’s habanera singing, the second most magical night in Catalonia after the Sant Joan of June. The Town Hall of Palafrugell decided this year to eliminate the popular habanera, something like an unofficial anthem of the Catalans. The work was composed by Josep Lluís Ortega Monasterio, a p…
The decision of the socialist city council of Palafrugell to remove “El meu avi” from the Calella habaneras cantada has raised controversy. It is only right that it should be so, because the resolution was not at the popular request or to make room for other pieces of this colonial-flavored music, as the mayor justified it, but by the imperative mandate of political correctness, as Pilar Rahola denounced last week. With a poignant and uncompromi…
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