The National Symphonic Band of the Blind opens the season 2021
With an original piece that will have international participation, the National Symphonic Band of the Blind "Pascual Grisolía" will carry out the opening of the season 2021.
Reporting to the National Directorate of Stable Organizations, the group will present "Towards tomorrow (Tomorrow is today)”, final part of the Ecological Oratory “The hummingbird”, work composed by the Master Gerardo Di Giusto, with lyrics by Luciano Bibiloni, Hélène Hucher and Egor Lisitsyn.
The work was carried out with the general coordination of Marcos González, Band's artistic programmer, and the musical / choral supervision of the authors, in a large-scale international articulation in the current context of pandemic.
The date chosen for the inauguration is the 14 March and will be carried out through the networks of the Ministry of Culture of the Nation, which stars in the National Symphonic Band of the Blind along with various youth and professional choral groups from Europe and Asia, more precisely from Spain, France, Russia, Singapore and the Philippines.
It should be noted that this will be a world premiere recorded from the confinement, with the text interpreted in 4 Languages. It is a hymn to hope and diversity inspired by an Amazonian legend, symbolizes the possibility of transformation from the sum of wills and respect for nature, our common home.
Thus, from his confinement, in the framework of this pandemic that impacted the entire planet, the National Symphonic Band of the Blind “Pascual Grisolía” joined with various choirs from around the world and thus be able to perform this piece together with 280 músicos integrantes del Coro Petits Chanteurs de Strasbourg – Masters of the Opéra national du Rhin (France), singers of the participatory project “On your marks, ready…sing!”, the Children's Choir of the Glinka Choral School in St. Petersburg (Russia), the Choir of the Principal Theater of Palma (Spain), singers from the School of the Arts (UNDER) from Singapore and the Coro Novo Concertante Manila (Philippines), with original audios recorded from their homes.