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Cobla VILA D’OLESA – FASHION AND REVOLUTION Sounds of the First Republic
4 November, 2024 @ 19:00 - 21:00
In the mid-19th century, the sardana was a fashionable dance in Catalonia. Composers, often leaders of the coblas, transformed popular melodies into the main themes of their sardanas, especially arias and choruses from operas and zarzuelas.
In the first part of the concert, we present four pieces that exemplify this practice, along with a schottische and two habaneras by Ventura, originally composed for cobla.
In the second part, we offer an immersion into the martial sounds that echoed in streets and squares: two sardanas on the Fuego de la Bisbal of 1869, one in memory of the Mallorcan brigadier Josep Cabrinetty—killed by the Carlists under Francesc Savalls in the Battle of Alpens in 1873—and another on the proclamation of the First Republic, featuring the tune of the Himno de Riego. The concert concludes with the instrumentation for cobla that Pep Ventura created for La Marseillaise, an emblematic anthem for the Ampurdanese Republicans well into the 20th century, which today is a musical and historical heritage piece we wish to share with all of you.
