Linette Fernanda Tzuc Poot, a student of the “Trova para Todas y Todos” (Trova for all) program in her native Tetiz, awaits the moment when the curtain of the Armando Manzanero Theater goes up and the chords rehearsed during the last months resound on the legendary stage that, for the first time, gives her the experience of presenting what she has learned along with more than 100 girls and boys.
The teenager has been taking guitar classes at the Casa de la Cultura in her town for almost a year, where thanks to the didactic material, equipment, and instruments that Governor Mauricio Vila Dosal delivered as part of the project, she was encouraged to take this workshop without imagining that a few months later he would be part of the group that performed at the Mérida venue.
“I found it excellent, thanks to my teacher who has taught me many things. I liked it, I have learned many songs, I thought I was only going to play in my town, but since I came here (to Mérida) I feel very excited and happy to play in front of enough people to enjoy it,” said the 11-year-old student
At the end of the concert that began with the interpretation of “El pájaro azul” by Manuel Díaz Massa and Pepe Domínguez by Oscar Cano Baqueiro, the head of the Ministry of Culture and the Arts (Sedeculta), Loreto Villanueva Trujillo thanked the coordination and support from those who lead the municipalities where this program takes place since their interest is vital to preserving the taste for our music.
“You are the engine of this collaboration, of this support we have, so that today we have these talents on stage and hear the applause of their families, their municipalities, their mayors”. About the new musicians she said “these are the children that they are going to allow us that the trova never dies, they are what they are going to do, that we always have music in Yucatán”, he emphasized.
The concert, open to the public, was attended by the mayors of Espita, Martha Eugenia Mena Alcocer; Hunucmá, Edna María Franco Ceballos and Xocchel, María Tah Maas, as well as the mayors of Panabá, Omar Mena Narváez; Peto, Renán Jiménez Tah and Sinanché, Felipe Mena Aguilar.
Among the students who were part of this experience, the child José Manuel Santoyo Palma de Sinanché, explained that his taste for music comes from his family, which encouraged him to go to the cultural space of his municipality to learn more about the trova. He pointed out that this program is important “because young people should know more about the Yucatecan trova.” As for his experience of being part of the guitar orchestra, he found it “very beautiful, because going out in a theater, not everyone does it, is a privilege”.
While Mauricio Escalante Flota, 16 years old and originally from Dzemul, highlighted the importance of belonging to the ensemble “it’s a lot of fun, you meet new people and I think it’s very good because that way we can rescue the different traditions such as the trova”.
The program included pieces that are a benchmark within the Yucatecan trova genre, such as “Desdén” by Ermilo Padrón López and Licho Buenfil, this time on voice by Ricardo Escobedo Palma de Sinanché who also performed “Peregrina” by Luis Rosado Vega and Ricardo Palmerin.
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