tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18305413545336350722024-03-05T10:43:59.761-08:00Ana CervantesAna Cervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09378653918304616448noreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1830541354533635072.post-91960165500913068762017-10-14T20:59:00.000-07:002017-10-14T21:00:21.360-07:00CASAS DEL CHAN 2 ... A ... POR FIN CERVANTES ...<br />
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Querid@s tod@s, ha sido un año de locos, es mi única excusa por mi megatardazota ... Yo sé que a menudo digo eso pero esta vez ha sido un año de locos DE A DE VERAS.<br />
English-speaking friends: once again my apologies, I'm going to have to ask you to use Google Translate one more time (actually I understand it's pretty good these days ... ).<br />
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En resumen:<br />
enero-febrero ... conciertos con la extraordinaria soprano canadiense Renée Bouthot y Cuauhtémoc Trejo (flauta) y Luis Barajas, violoncello ... música de cámara vocal, ¡no hay mayor felicidad!<br />
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febrero-marzo ... ensayos y luego conciertos para una pequeña gira al interior de mi Estado de Guanajuato: JS Bach, Beethoven, Debussy; y porque es el mes de la Mujer además del décimo aniversario de <i><b>Rumor de Páramo</b></i>, las piezas <b>Rumor</b> de Georgina Derbez y Marcela Rodríguez de México y de Silvia Berg de Brasil.<br />
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abril-junio ... preparación de repertorio de De la Luz, del Aire / Of the Light, of Air: el programa que fue resultado del apoyo de New York Women Composers, Inc (NYWC), un estímulo de semillero (Seed Money Grant). Cuatro compositoras de allá y cuatro de acá -- de ser preciso, tres de acá y una de Colombia. Volver a meter en dedos las piezas <i><b>Monarca</b></i> de Ortiz, Potes, Wallach; preparar desde ras de tierra las obras, todas hermosas y cada una con su voz absolutamente individual, de Faye-Ellen Silverman, Rain Worthington e Hilary Tann. Las piezas <i><b>Rumor</b></i> de Rodríguez y Derbez, gracias al Universo, ya estaban en dedos por lo de marzo. Toqué este programa en dos conciertos públicos -el MIQ y Casa Cuatro- ; y tres semi-públicos --es decir en la Casa del Pozo- aquí en Guanajuato.<br />
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agosto ... a <i><b>Rumor de Páramo</b></i>, de que tocaré once de mis piezas favoritas en el 45 Festival Cervantino el 27 de octubre.<br />
En el ISPS (International Symposium on Performance Science) 2017 aceptaron mi propuesta de hablar sobre Rumor pero mediante un póster. Sin embargo es importante este reconocimiento y vamos, ¡fui la única participante de México! Esta vez fue en Islandia, que de plano fue alucinante.<br />
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septiembre ... volvi de Islandia el 5 de septiembre y el 16 partí a Nueva York para dos conciertos y un taller, con <i><b>De la Luz, del Aire</b></i>. <i>Succès fou</i>, como quien dice, éxito rotundo.<br />
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octubre ... regreso de NY el 27 de septiembre, un día de descanso para cambiar de velocidades y a toda madre con las once piezas <i><b>Rumor</b></i> para mi concierto FIC el 27 de octubre.<br />
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Y durante todo este tiempo, como una hermosa vida paralela, este otro trabajo en que también participo: las Casas del Chan.<br />
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Yo con la idea de escribir algo bien bonito acerca de la construction de estas Casas del Chan --que hasta la fecha ni siquiera (creo) he explicado el porqué de este nombre ... pero otro día será. Logré subir un solo escrito --¡¡en MAYO, por dios!!-- y me queda muy claro que si yo, para subir estas fotos, siguiera esperando a que tenga tiempo y energías para escribir algo ... bueno, las casas se habrán terminado antes de que se hiciera.<br />
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Así que ... ya adivinaron ... voy a publicar las fotos CON FECHAS, no más; y colorín colorado.<br />
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Allí vamos, here we go ...<br />
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Entrada 11 - 27 de mayo: <br />
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Entrada 12, 29 de mayo: <br />
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Entrada 13, 1 de junio:<br />
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Entrada 14,3 de junio:<br />
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Entrada 15, 5 de junio. Fue por estas fechas que se me antojaba escribir algo muy poético al estilo de <b>Cómo construir un muro</b> <b>bello</b> ... pero quedó en el departamento de <i>Uno de éstos</i> ...<br />
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Entrada 20, ZANJA DE JACARANDA The trench, beginnings of the foundation of Casa jacaranda which is the one further from my own house:<br />
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Unas fotos sacadas por el Arq Miguel Medina durante (creo) la semana del 5 de junio:<br />
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<br />Ana Cervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09378653918304616448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1830541354533635072.post-84877704253734180642017-06-04T20:58:00.002-07:002017-06-04T20:59:14.280-07:00CASAS DEL CHAN-01<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">CASAS DEL CHAN ... primera entrega </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Como algunas saben, el 2 de mayo se inició la obra de mis
dos casitas, frente a la casa a que yo he dado el nombre Casa del Pozo. Fue una inicio largamente
esperada … sin embargo no lo empezamos con una sensación de urgencia: más bien,
con la sensación de que simplemente ya había llegado el momento correcto.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Se me ocurrió la idea de mantener una suerte de bitácora, y
publicarla aquí en mi blog, para tener informadas a las personas que habían
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muchas! Cuento una veintena y seguramente se me van a ocurrir más nombres.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">En el peor caso los que no tienen
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">En primer plano es el Callejón del Refugio. ¡Se nota que el icónico Rey Pirul seguirá en su lugar!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">... Y todo empezó con esta maqueta preliminar, que ahora, habiendo sobrevivido muchos meses y muchas vueltas evolutivas, parece más como los dibujos digitales: ¡pero en toda su realidad táctil!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ayer, cuando me senté a escribir ¡casi no se me ocurrió nada
que decir!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>La verdad es que todo se ha
movido con una asombrosa rapidez. Mi memoria de la construcción de esta Casa
del Pozo es que la parte más lenta y laboriosa fue la cimentación.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aquí no parece ser el caso. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ahora, encaminada y
escribiendo, me vienen a la mente tantas pláticas con Miguel, tantas lluvias de
ideas, tantas ideas mías y de él … parece que ahora las compuertas se han abierto y ya
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Va, entonces, ha sido así: Iniciamos con mayo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>El primero fue feriado, de manera que en realidad fue el martes 2 que se
empezó todo. Esa mañana, de repente consciente de que fue la última mañana en
que ese terreno se vería así, saqué un par de fotos tipo 7:30h. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cuatro semanas después, a esa altura de la
mañana hay bastante más claridad pero allá por inicios de mayo todavía había
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Al poco rato, ese primer día, llegó el maestro encargado, Everardo,
con su equipo de cuatro: dos oficiales, cada uno con su ayudante. Es un equipo
impresionante por su eficacia. Todos físicamente fuertes y me parecen de una increíble
resistencia. Este mes de mayo ha sido inusitadamente caluroso y ellos, picando
piedra como dice el dicho, han sacado de las entrañas de mi terreno una
cantidad de piedra igual a mínimo ocho viajes de piedra. Trabajo de mucho
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">No obstante, aquí están puntualmente a las 8:30h todas las
mañanas excepto el domingo. Trabajan de una manera muy disciplinada.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Llegan en bola, y mientras sacan su
herramienta de mi bodega donde la tienen resguardada, el Maestro Everardo ve el
terreno como mariscal de campo refrescándose la mente acerca de la disposición
de sus fuerzas desde la noche anterior … y vuelve a dirigir esas fuerzas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Y no sólo dirige: él también trabaja al lado
de ellos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>De esto deduzco que es un jefe
respetado.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Me parece un hombre muy
íntegro y honrado.
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">El siguiente día, el 3 de mayo, es el Día de la Santa Cruz,
de los maestros albañiles. Casi todos llevan una cruz al sacerdote a que lo
bendiga; y luego colocan esa cruz en la obra en que están trabajando. La de las
Casas del Chan es muy bella. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Así que empezamos bendecidos ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">El Arky Miguel viendo los avances del día. Viene todos los días para ver cómo vamos y para consultar con el Maestro Everardo acerca de qué material pedir y qué son los próximos pasos. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tuvieron que excavar CUATRO metros
hasta tocar peña. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Y esa peña resulta dura como
acero.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pasaron una hora con cuña y martillo
sin mayor resultado que unas hojuelas de piedra, no miento.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Y hay una pendiente más o menos
paralelo al nuevo callejón que construimos hace tres años, y es una superficie
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">¿¿¿Qué hacer???</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Martillo de compresor, obviamente,
pero ¿cómo diablos hacerlo llegar? Y del compresor, ni hablar …</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">El maravilloso Arq Miguel Medina
contempló, rumió … hizo unas llamadas telefónicas … agendó unas consultas con
personas que son los meros meros<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>magos
de la piedra; para concluir que tendríamos que perforar esta piedra-acera para
meter soportes de varilla gruesísima que llegaran a
casi un metro de profundidad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Y abracadabra, a los tres días hábiles
apareció un maestro de apodo “El Rocas” con su equipo, y un martillo; y el
compresor quedó abajo en la calle. Cuando Miguel le preguntó al Rocas qué tal
el compresor, casi desdeñoso dijo ese maestro que ningún cohete, que la
manguera alcanza a QUINIENTOS metros.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Esto fue el pasado martes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pues se pueden imaginar, yo con el ataque: el
ruido, la molestia, todo el rollo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A las
7 de la mañana mandando Whats a varios vecinos que eso es lo que íbamos a
hacer, que una sentida disculpa, que con suerte no duraría más que un día.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(La máquina con su equipo cuesta 6,500 pesos
por día.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sí, leíste bien.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Así que estábamos rezando que DE VERAS no
durara más de un día.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Y fui a mi clase de Pilates, de 9 a
10 de la mañana.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Y cuando salí, allí en
mi tel hubo un Whats de Miguel diciendo que casi iban de salida.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>¡Me lo perdí todo!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Maestro Everardo con las megavarillas colocadas. ¡Se nota lo contento que está!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Bueno, en verdad todos contentos ... ¡¡porque ahora pueden avanzar!!</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><br />
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gruesísima, se pudo colocar andamio.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>¡Y
con qué asombrosa rapidez! En un santiamén el Arky Miguel y el Maestro Everardo
se fueron por madera, clavos, alambre … y de nuevo abracadabra, arranca la
segunda fase.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sólo estaban esperando a
que se solucionara el asunto de la roca y ¡a todo vapor!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Anteayer tocó el 1 de junio, el
aniversario de un mes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Parece apropiado
que fue cuando hicieron una muestra de cómo será el muro de cerca.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Increíble como una vez que se
empieza a poner un muro, de repente sientes que <b>He Aquí una Estructura.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Bueno, les dejo con unas hermosas fotos sacadas por unos amigos canadienses que estaban aquí durante casi dos meses, y que terminaron encariñándose con este proyecto:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Me parece que estas últimas dos fueron sacadas desde la azotea ... ¡se siente muy arriba de la friega!
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A todo vapor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A toda madre. ¡Qué emoción!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Prometo que la siguiente entrega no tardará tanto como esta primera. Creo que en la siguiente les contaré de los secretos y misterios que salieron a la luz del día durante la priera parte de la excavación ... y algunos tesoros.</span></div>
Ana Cervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09378653918304616448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1830541354533635072.post-85541792591822885122015-04-26T14:57:00.002-07:002015-04-26T14:57:39.895-07:00LOS LIGAMENTOS DE ANA Cap. 2 / ANA'S LIGAMENTS Ch 2<br />
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Pues así es como fue: el martes 21 a las 7:30h llego a la
clínica, recojo los resultados del análisis de sangre que me hicieron el día
anterior (todo completamente bien, por cierto) y voy a la recepción.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Es la primera vez en mi vida que hago una
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Al rato me llevan a un cuarto y poco a poco me van
preparando para la intervención: quito ropa y me pongo una bata de un alegre
color amarillo, llega una amable enfermera y … ¡me quita el esmalte de los
dedos de mis pies! Caramba, nadie me avisó de esta parte.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">¿Porqué?</i>
la pregunto, y en realidad la única respuesta es –con un gentil encoger de hombros--
que no está permitido. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Después me dice
que tampoco podré llevar puestos mis aretes <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Monarca</i></b> (regalo de una
muy querida amiga) al quirófano. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">AY NO</i>, digo, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">¡son mis amuletas!</i> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Estos aretes me fueron regalados por una muy querida amiga
aquí en uno de los momentos más obscuros del proyecto <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Monarca</i></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Son de Oaxaca (¡de donde proviene Jesusa
Palancares, la musa de la pieza <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Monarca</i></b> de Gabriela Ortiz de México!):
de cobre con esmalte encima. Me los puse para la última sesión de grabar de
ambos discos de <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Monarca </i></b>y los he llevados puestos en incontables conciertos en
que toqué esa música.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Así que son para
mí de veras mágicos. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yo entiendo lo de
los aretes porque quién sabe qué microbios podrían traer al quirófano; pero ¿el
esmalte? Ni modo. Es en estos momentos que me doy cuenta de cuánto cuestiono,
siempre quiero saber el porqué o el razonamiento tras el reglamento. Qué pena somos
esas mujeres <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cuestiononas</i>, ¿verdad? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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La amable enfermera se esmera mucho en encontrar una buena
vena para el suero.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Viene el cirujano un
par de veces. Hay un par de papeles que firmar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Luego llega el anestesiólogo para describir un poco su parte de la
faena. De hecho, yo insistí que viniera porque quiero saber qué sucederá: otra
vez ese impulso <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cuestionón</i>. Parece un
señor de muy pocas palabras –algo tímido quizás?— pero muy amable. </div>
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Y por fin ya es hora, me llevan al quirófano.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sorprendentemente pequeño espacio, muy
acogedor e íntimo, con luz cálida. Me cambian a la angosta cama en que se hará
la cirugía, el cirujano comenta algo de las nuevas luces, él y el anestesiólogo
me informan que han decidido usar anestesia local --en lugar de la epidural
originalmente contemplada— con un sedante. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Me enchufan a los varios sueros y líquidos. Un
poco de plática; se dan cuenta de los aretes <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Monarca </i></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(que taimadamente nunca quité) y me piden
quitarlos pero dicen que pueden quedar dentro del quirófano, como tienen
entendido que para mí son mágicos (¡¡¡VIVA MÉXICO!!!).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Me desenchufan la mano derecha para quitar
aretes –ambos pares, ¡qué bien que no puse el tercer juego!--; la asistente me
desbrocha la cadenita de mi cuello. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Me
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Yo no sé qué sedante me dieron pero … justo cuando estoy
para preguntar cuando empezáramos … me doy cuenta de que estoy despertándome
del sueño más delicioso de mi vida, y me están diciendo que ya se acabó, que
todo muy bien, que hola señora, ya se va a su cuarto.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Declaro a los dos médicos que son la neta del
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Es ahora que por fin veo el famoso vendaje Robert Jones
¡¡puesto en mi propio pie!! Impresionante: es enorme.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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El Famoso vendaje Robert Jones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Este médico fue un TIPAZO
(http://blog.uchceu.es/eponimos-cientificos/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2011/10/eponimo_jones3.pdf
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Una vez en mi cuarto vienen Ramiro Gutiérrez <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>y Gabriela Fragoso, gran parte de mi equipo de
apoyo para este día de cirugía. Ramiro es uno de mis amistades más antiguos de
aquí, quien con los años me ha ayudado con un sinfín de cosas, este día con
transporte y logística; y Gabriela Fragoso, mi actual asistente de producción,
de mucha chispa y muy atenta.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Al rato
pasan el cirujano y el anestesiólogo, el cirujano para reiterar de nuevo la
absoluta necesidad de reposo total durante las próximas cuatro semanas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Le confirmo que ya estaba mentalizada para
reposo total. Voy a dormir un poco más, digo; todos se van; y duermo de nuevo,
un delicioso par de horas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Bien, no es la “selfie” más halagadora del mundo pero
¡caramba, yo tenía tanto sueño!</div>
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Tobillo de Cervantes con Gabriela Fragoso</div>
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Después de unas de esas estupideces administrativas que
nunca faltan, llegamos a casa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Desde que
todo esto se decidió el sábado me preocupaba mucho el asunto de cómo demonios
iba a llegar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Para llegar a esta casa
hay que caminar: subas o bajes, pero hay que caminar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Llegamos y Ramiro quisiera que yo me apoyara
en él para la bajada … pero no pude; ni siquiera lo pude visualizar. Decidido
que iba a bajar sencillamente de sentadilla, sobre las nalgas, escalón por
escalón; ¡entre más cerca de la tierra, más segura me sentía!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Milagrosamente apareció David Chávez, el
genio de arquitecto quien diseñó esta casa. Después de revisar la situación y
platicar dos minutos, él y Ramiro decidieron que me llevarían haciendo una suerte
de silla con sus dos brazos, yo estabilizándome con un brazo sobre cada uno de
sus hombros.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Es una técnica utilizada
por cuerpos de rescate cuando una persona no puede caminar, lo he visto.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ramiro me explicó después que en alguna vida
anterior él había tomado un curso de esos de bomberos y allí lo aprendió.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>El señor tiene una curiosidad y deseo de
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Sea como fuera, yo llegué como una reina … ¡con el corazón
en la boca pero como una reina!</div>
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Llegué a casa FAMÉLICA porque no había comido desde las
22:00h el día antes ... así que henos aquí el Tobillo y yo, ¡recalentando
picadillo colombiano y arroz integral!</div>
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Va, obviamente no estoy del todo lista para Zumba con Karla
Piñon de Blomquist en Estudio Kinesis ... ¡pero al menos estoy en casa! </div>
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Como es normal en estas situaciones –al menos para mí— en
realidad no entendí cuán fatigada estuve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Había miles de detalles que resolver, o así me pareció. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Muy rápido descifré cómo brincar con la ayuda
de la andadera y lo estaba haciendo por todas partes. </div>
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Me queda muy claro que la
medida de mi angustia en cuanto a mi movilidad fue mi nivel de actividad física
esa tarde y noche.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Llegó un momento, tipo 23h, en que me di cuenta que ya no
pude más, que si no me pusiera horizontal iba a caer. Fui a la cama y dormí
hasta las 10 de la mañana.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Y LUEGO … </b></div>
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El miércoles en la tarde voy al piano y empiezo a tocar
Beethoven y casi de inmediato me doy cuenta de que algo está muy mal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mis manos duelen y no hacen lo que deben de
hacer. Me cae el veinte de que es la andadera. En efecto, te mueves con ese ingenioso
dispositivo y algo así como el 90% del peso de tu cuerpo está cayendo sobre tus
muñecas y tus manos, cada que brinques. Es un estrés repetido pero brutal. Por
eso hago lagartijas contra la pared y no sobre el piso, por eso hago planchas
de codo en lugar de con el brazo extendido … ¿y ahora estoy jodiendo mis manos
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Esa noche apenas pude manejar tenedor y cuchillo para cenar
mi ensalada; escribir me dolía y salió todo chueco.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Me di cuenta de que urgía encontrar una silla
de ruedas. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Y es que se me pasó por
completo el estrés sobre mis manos que implica la andadera. AJ vino y me contó
de unas patinetas que personas en mi situación pueden usar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lo buscamos en Internet. Los hay, en EU: se
llaman <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">scooters </i>(pronúnciese <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">scúters</i>).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cuestan entre 250 y 350 dólares.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No hay tiempo para batallar con Aduana y todo
el rollo: yo estoy en una situación emergente, moverme con esa andadera ha
vuelto una tortura incluso para tan solo cinco pasos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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La mañana del jueves entro de nuevo en Internet para indagar
la solución.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Resulta que el maravilloso
dispositivo <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">made in USA</i></b> no está disponible en México.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sí que hay “escúteres” –con todo y el nombre debidamente
hispanizado—y los precios empiezan en 22 MIL pesos mexicanos. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NOP. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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De vuelta a Plan “A”: silla de ruedas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Los hay, en León, yo tengo el poco de extra
para pagarla, el bendito de Ramiro se lanza a comprarla.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tipo 19h lo tengo y de inmediato empiezo a
ensayar como conducirlo. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Una muy querida
amiga me había preparado comida deliciosa y nutritiva –un par de guisados y
arroz—<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gaby fue por ella y mientras
Ramiro va a León como un poco. Mis manos empiezan a dolerse menos. </div>
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El viernes mientras escribo esto siento que por fin hemos
agarrado un ritmo que funciona. Feliz, feliz, FELIZ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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¡¡Me divierto como enanaaaaaa, haciendo sólo los brazos aquí
en mi silla!!</div>
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Resumo, ahora el sábado: desde la tarde del martes, todo
esto ha sido un aprendizaje tipo inmersión de ingenuidad, de equilibrio, de manejo
corporal tanto físico como mental, sobre todo de paciencia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>El acto de entrar en la regadera para bañarme
-- antes algo simple y rápido—ahora es toda una coreografía que requiere de cuidadosa
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¡Qué dicha que puedo vivir en la planta media de esta
maravillosa casa, sin ni un solo desnivel y donde se encuentra todo lo
necesario: piano, cama, cocina, jardín de hierbas de olor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Me siento dichosísima de saber lo poco que sé
de danza y de acondicionamiento físico porque esto me ayuda mucho con el
equilibrio y con el aislamiento de ciertos músculos, algo así como al piano, la
verdad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">So this is how
it happened …<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tuesday 21 at 7:30am I
arrive at the clinic --like a small hospital—where the surgeon will do the
operation, pick up the results of the blood work they’d done the day before
(everything completely fine, by the way) and go to check in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is really the first time in my life I’ve
done anything like this, so my frame of mind is more curiosity than
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In a few
minutes they take me to my room and little by little they start the
pre-op.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I undress and put on the happy
yellow robe they give me, a very pleasant nurse arrives and … takes off the
polish on my toes!! Jiminy, nobody told me about this part.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Why?</i>,
I ask her, and really the only response is –with a polite shrug of the
shoulders—it’s not allowed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A couple of
minutes later she tells me that I also can’t wear my magical <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Monarca
</i></b>earrings into the operating room (OR).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Agghh</i>, I say, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">but they’re my amulets!</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Those
earrings were given to me by a very dear friend here in Mexico, in the darkest
days of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Monarca</i></b> project. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
gave me courage and “lift” as the airplane people say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wore them for the last recording session of
each <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Monarca
</i></b>disk and they have been in my ears for countless concerts in which I
played <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Monarca</i></b> music. They are of enamelled copper, from the state of
Oaxaca (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">wa-HA-ca</i>) which is where
Jesusa Palancares (the muse of Gabriela Ortiz’ amazing <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Monarca</i></b> piece) is
from.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So they are indeed magical for me.
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I can
understand the earrings because who knows what yucky microbes they might bring
into the OR … but the toenail polish??!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s when things like this happen that I realize how many questions I
ask.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I suppose it’s quite bothersome:
always wanting to know the reasons behind the rules.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What a pain we are, we questioning women!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The nice
nurse takes a lot of time and trouble to find a good vein in my left arm in
which to put the drip.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The surgeon stops
by a couple of times, with papers to sign.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Then the anesthesiologist stops by to describe his part of the show. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I insisted, actually, because I like to know
what’s going on: that same bothersome phenomenon. He seems a man of few words
–perhaps rather shy?—but very pleasant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And then
finally it is time, they wheel me down to the OR.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a surprisingly small space, very cozy
and intimate, with warm light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
change me over to the narrow bed in which they’ll do the surgery, the surgeon
comments something about the new lights, he and the anaesthesiologist inform me
that they’ve decided to use a local anaesthetic - instead of the epidural
previously specified-- and a sedative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
get plugged in to various tubes with various liquids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A little bit of talk; in the final pre-flight
checklist the penny drops about the Monarca earrings (which I sneakily never
took off) and they ask me to take them off … but say they can stay inside the
OR, as they understand that for me these earrings are magical (VIVA MÉXICO!!!).
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They unplug my right hand so I can take
off the earrings –both pairs, a good thing I didn’t put in the third and
smallest ones!!--; the assistant unhooks my little silver </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>neck-<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">chain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They plug me back in again.</span></div>
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know what sedative they gave me<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>… but
just when I’m about to ask when we’d begin … I am awaking from the most
delicious sleep of my life, and they are telling me that it’s done, everything
is fine, </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">hola señora</i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">, now we’ll take you to your room. I
tell the two docs that they are definitely </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ET" style="mso-ansi-language: ET;">la neta del planeta</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> (sort of like the A Team) and am
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It is now
that I finally see the Famous Robert Jones bandage ON MY OWN FOOT!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Impressive: it is HUGE.</span></div>
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The Famous Robert Jones Bandage. This doctor was an AMAZING
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Once I am
in my room, Ramiro Gutiérrez and Gabriela Fragoso come.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are most of my support team for this
surgery-day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ramiro is one of my oldest
friends here in Guanajuato, who over the years has helped me with countless
things, today with transport and logistics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Gabriela is my current production assistant, very attentive and lots of
spark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">OK, not the
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The Robert Jones bandaged Ana Cervantes Ankle with Gabriela
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the surgeon and anaesthesiogist stop by, the surgeon to reiterate once again
the absolute necessity of Total Rest for that foot during the next four weeks.
I reassure him that I am totally psyched for Total Rest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m going to sleep for a little while now, I
say; and they all leave; and I sleep again, a delicious couple of hours. </span></div>
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of those seemingly inevitable administrative stupidities, we arrive home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since all of this came together on Saturday
I’ve been worried about how the hell I would get home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s important to understand that to get to
this house you have to walk: either you walk up or you walk down, but walk you
must. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we arrive up top, at the
entrance to my <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">acceso</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ramiro had the idea that I could somehow
support myself on him and hop down or something.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I just can’t:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>can’t even visualize it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I decide I’ll go down sitting on my rear, one
step at a time: the closer I am to the ground the safer I feel!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Right at this moment appears David Chávez,
the genius architect of this house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After thinking over the situation and chatting for a minute or two, he
and Ramiro decide they’ll carry me making a kind of chair with two of their
arms, and me stabilizing myself with an arm on each of their shoulders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s an emergency rescue technique used with
people who can’t walk: I’ve read about it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Ramiro explains later that in some previous life he’d taken a rescue
course and that was where he learned how to do that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The man is a bottomless well of curiosity and
desire to learn and thus is a mine of information: just amazing. </span></div>
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I arrived home STARVING because I hadn't eaten anything
since 10PM the previous night ... so here are the Ankle and I, heating up
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normal in such situations –at least for me— in reality I didn’t understand how
exhausted I was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were innumerable
details to resolve, or so it seemed to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I quickly learned how to hop about on the walker and was soon hopping
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OK, I may not be quite ready for Zumba with Karla in Estudio
Kinesis ... but at least I'm home!!</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A moment
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afternoon I go to the piano and start to play Beethoven and almost immediately
I realize that something is very, very wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My hands hurt and they’re not doing what they should.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The penny drops: it’s the walker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Basically, when you move around with this
ingenious device something like 90% of your body’s weight is falling on your
hands and wrists with every hop you take.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s a brutal repeated stress.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This of course is why I do wall push-ups instead of floor ones,
elbow-planks instead of extended-arm ones (well, they’re also more work!) … and
now here I am screwing up my hands and wrists in the same way, in order to save
my foot?? No, no, no.</span></div>
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I can barely manage knife and fork to eat my salad; writing hurts and it comes
out all crooked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I realize that I
urgently need to find a wheelchair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
just totally failed to anticipate the stress the walker would put on wrists and
hands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>AJ comes over and talks about
these scooters that they make for people in my situation: we go on line and
look at them and they seem wonderful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They’re in the US and cost between $250 and $250 USD. But there’s no
time to battle with Aduana and the whole thing: I’m in a fix which urgently
needs to be resolved, using that walker has become a torture even for just five
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the next morning, I get online again to find a solution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It turns out that the wonderful device Made
In USA is not available here in Mexico.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There are indeed scooters … and the prices BEGIN at 22,000 Mexican
pesos, about 2000 US greenbacks. NOPE.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Back to
Plan “A”: the wheelchair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are
various places which have them in León (about an hour away), and praise be, I
have the little bit of extra –ca. US$450-- to buy one; wonderful Ramiro takes
off for León to purchase it and bring it here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>By 7pm I have it and immediately start to practice “driving” it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A very dear friend who’s an excellent cook
had made some food for me: rice and two dishes –Gaby went to pick this up and
while Ramiro was going to pick up the wheelchair <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I eat a little bit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My hands are starting to hurt less.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Friday, as
I write this, I begin to feel that at last we’ve found a rhythm that
works.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Happy, happy, HAPPY. </span></div>
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now on Saturday: beginning on Tuesday afternoon, all this has been an immersion-level
lesson in balance, ingenuity, management of my body both physical and mental;
and more than anything, in patience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Getting into the shower –before something simple and quick— is now a
whole choreography which demands careful contemplation of steps,
weight-distribution, rhythm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every day
I’ve realized how fortunate I am to be able to live in the middle level of this
wonderful house, where there’s not one single stair and where I have everything
necessary: piano, bed, kitchen, herb-garden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I feel enormously lucky to know the little I do about dance and physical
conditioning because that helps me so much with balance and with isolating
certain muscles when that’s necessary … rather like the piano, really.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Los ligamentos de Ana, Ana’s Ligaments</b></span></div>
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19 abril 2015</div>
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Como algunos amigos ya se enteraron, el viernes en la mañana
bajé para dar su pago a nuestro vecino don Anastasio, que ahora nos apoya barriendo
el callejón dos veces a la semana.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sonsamente tomé un atajo, resbalé, caí.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>En el momento de caer, entre escuché y sentí algo que se tronó en mi
tobillo derecho.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pensé: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">caray, a lo mejor se me ha roto un ligamento</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Resumidos cuentos: apliqué hielo y tomé
ibuprofeno, mi fiel asistente de producción me sacó cita con el más recomendado
traumatólogo de acá. En la tarde-noche, con el hinchazón en el tobillo ahora
tamaño pelotita de golf, fui con el doctor, quien me recetó una radiografía
para descartar la posibilidad de una mini fractura en el tobillo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Me citó de nuevo la siguiente mañana para
determinar qué sería el tratamiento.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Así
que la mañana de ayer volví.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Y sí: de los tres ligamentos que tenemos en la faz exterior
del tobillo, yo logré hacer un esguince de segundo grado en dos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>El doctor observó que en ese tobillo hay una
suerte de lesión crónica: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Se ha lastimado
antes, mínimo dos veces,</i> me dijo, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">¿porqué
no me lo comentó cuando le pregunté de su historia?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Emmm,</i> yo trastabillé, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">honestamente
lo olvidé,</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">supongo que porque nunca
llegó a más</i> … <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pero es progresiva esta
lesión,</i> dice el doctor, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">su tobillo ahora
tiene un problema estructural, está cada vez más inestable y proclive a
colapsar.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aggghhh.</div>
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En efecto, hay dos opciones para tratamiento.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Primera: inmovilizar la articulación (hay
tres maneras de hacerlo dependiendo la severidad de la situación); reposo total
durante tres a cuatro semanas; fisioterapia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Con esta opción esos dos ligamentos se sanarán pero nunca estarán del
todo bien: o sea, se habrá detenido esa lesión crónica pero no se habrá
reparado. Significa que durante todo el resto de mi vida tendré que preocuparme
por esa articulación y andar con cautela, ese tipo de cautela que para mí, al
menos, casi puede causar más accidentes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Muy probablemente no volvería a correr, ni brincar en mis clases de danza.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Segunda opción. Dice el doctor: si usted tuviera veinte años
menos, considerando su nivel de actividad física yo recomendaría sin titubeos
que se operara. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ah-JA, digo yo,
platícame de esta opción por favor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pues
resulta que es un procedimiento de lo más sencillo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>La operación en sí dura unos 30 minutos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Se abre la piel, se cose el ligamento, se
cierra, se pone una vendaje especial (llamado Vendaje Robert Jones, por cierto,
y la historia de este señor médico es en verdad fascinante, fue un tipazo que además inventó ortopedia pediátrica); reposo total
durante tres a cuatro semanas; fisioterapia y ¡colorín colorado!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>O sea, el tiempo de recuperación es igual. Y
ahora cosido y reparado, el ligamento sí que será como nuevecito. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vale, nuevecito como de una chava de 25 años
no lo será; pero para mis años y mi considerable nivel de actividad <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>será como nuevo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Se utiliza anestesia epidural, que me dicen
es la octava maravilla. Pues allí estoy sopesando todo, y digo al doctor como
pensando en voz alta, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pues todavía no he
caminado a Santiago de Compostela </i>y ni bien salen las palabras de mi boca
que me doy cuenta de que he decidido; y digo:<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Yo opto por la cirugía.</i> </div>
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Lo haremos este martes 22.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Ténganme en sus pensamientos mis queridos … </div>
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friends already know, Friday morning I walked down to pay our neighbour don
Anastasio, who does the great service of sweeping our callejón twice a week. I
took a shortcut; I slipped, I fell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
the moment of falling I heard and felt something snap in my right ankle. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Oh shit,</i> I said to myself, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">have I torn a ligament?</i> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I
immediately applied ice and took ibuprofen; my faithful production assistant
called and got me an appointment with the good emergency orthopaedist here.
Later on that afternoon, with the swelling on the outside of my ankle almost
the size of a golf ball, I went to see the doctor. He sent me to get an X-ray
of the ankle to rule out the possibility of some hairline fracture; and told me
to return the following morning to decide on treatment. So yesterday morning I
returned.</span></div>
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of the three ligaments which run up the exterior face of our human ankles, I
managed to get a second-degree sprain of TWO of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The doctor observed that in my right ankle
there is a kind of chronic lesion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It’s been sprained before, at least twice,</i>
he said, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">why didn’t you mention that when
I asked you about your history?</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ermmmm</i>, I hemmed, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I just forgot, it never came to anything worse so I guess I forgot
about it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But this problem is
progressive, </i>says the doc, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">it’s
structural now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your ankle is getting
more and more unstable and with more and more tendency to collapse. </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aggghhh.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">OPTION 1:
immobilize the joint (there are three ways to do this depending on the severity
of the situation); total rest for three or four weeks; physiotherapy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With this option those two sprained ligaments
will heal but will never be completely well: i.e. the lesion will have been
arrested but not repaired.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This means
that during the entire rest of my life I will have to be aware of this joint
and do everything cautiously, with that kind of caution which for me, at least,
can cause MORE accidents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Very probably
I would not ever really run again, or leap in dance class.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Option 2: Says
the doctor: If you were some 20 years younger, and particularly considering
your level of physical activity, I wouldn’t hesitate a moment to recommend that
we operate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ah-HA, say I, tell me more please.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, it turns out that we’re talking about
the simplest procedure imaginable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
operation itself takes 30 minutes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
opens, he SEWS UP the ligament, he closes up, he puts on a special bandage
(called the Robert Jones Bandage, by the way, and the story of Dr Robert Jones
is a TREAT, believe me, absolutely fascinating: among other things he basically founded pediatric orthopedics); total rest for three or four
weeks; physiotherapy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mean, the
recovery time is The Same.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And with that
ligament all sewn up and repaired, it will be As Good As New.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>OK, not like the ligament of a 25-year-old
cutie, but for someone my age with my considerable level of activity, it will
be like new. They use epidural anesthesia, which everyone says is just
wonderful. So there I am weighing it all, and I say to the doctor, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Well you know I still haven’t hiked to
Santiago de Compostela</i> and no sooner are the words out of my mouth than I
realize that I’ve decided; and I say: Let’s go for the surgery.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">So it’s at
8AM Tuesday 22.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hold me in your
thoughts, dear ones!</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">PLACERES GTO_02</span></b></div>
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¿Qué les puedo decir, seis meses después de que yo esperaba
subir otro comentario sobre los placeres de esta ciudad? Sólo que ha habido uno
que otro fallecimiento, y conciertos con toda su preparación … Y además, hay
tanto sucediendo aquí en nuestra ciudad que, válgame, no es poca cosa estar al
tanto.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>¡Ojalá y nadie esté
esperando una prosa inmortal porque no me da tiempo! ¡<span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Felices Fiestas</span>!</div>
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Importante mencionar: cuando yo
hablo de nuestra ciudad lo hago, en cierto modo, en términos relativos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Es mi convicción que ningún niño de
aquí debe crecer sin entrar al Teatro Juárez, mínimo dos veces, y estar cuerpo
a cuerpo con ese Steinway mientras alguien le toque Brahms o Beethoven o uno de
esos cuates: para que sienta como el instrumento vibra. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Todavía no sucede.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>En eso estoy.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; text-transform: uppercase;">Del cuerpo:</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Danza Africana … Mesturas Danza Africana.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Increíble.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pero ya no.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Un
ciclo se cierra y otro se abre … Afortunadamente, hay Raqs Sharqi <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Danza Clásica Egipcia) con Catherine (Cathie)
Gielis. Reanudamos clases el martes 6 de enero 2015, creo que a las 18:00h
(6pm). Más informes: </span><a href="mailto:catilie_gto@yahoo.fr">catilie_gto@yahoo.fr</a>
o vía Inbox en Facebook.<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Varias encarnaciones de Zumba: MoveOut en Sangre de
Cristo – excelente <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>porque fue el primer
gimnasio aquí --que yo sepa— en poner duela de madera.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>De veras impresionante, porque créemelo
que han aparecido muchos y casi todos han gastado una buena lana, si no una
megalana … y es el MoveOut que sigue aflote, ¿me explico? –todos los demás se
han marchado. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No obstante, hay que
evolucionar, hay que pensar en nuevas tendencias, hay que convencer al chavo
que da AéroCombat o cómo se llame y a la chava que da Aerobics o cómo se llame,
a que de vez en cuando prueben una nueva rutina o al menos nueva música, por
dios … Así que cuando llega Karla, y desde un inicio te queda muy claro que es
una docente nata y que además prepara una rutina nueva para casi cada clase …
bueno.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Predestinado.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Primero se cambió a la acogedora pequeña
sala en Puertecito –donde por cierto Gerardo Luna sigue dando unas clases más
que respetables— y pocos meses después, abrió su propio espacio en la calle de
San Sebastián.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>En este precioso
espacio no muy grande, en un edificio catalogado, puso ¡espejos y duela de madera!
Nada lujoso pero muy profesional.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Está dando un nivel de clases que aquí casi no se
ve: Zumba de Circuito, Zumba <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sentao</i></b> (en una silla, en efecto es
la única manera de que puedes trabajar los abdominales en Zumba), por
ejemplo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Quizá en León encuentras
estas modalidades, ciertamente en el DF; pero creo que aquí Karla sigue siendo
la única maestra que lo hace. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; text-transform: uppercase;">Otros placeres …</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Esto data de justo antes de las Fiestas Pátrias ...
en el Centro Histórico: el martes 9 de septiembre, rumbo a la clínica veterinaria
con Azabacha para sus últimas vacunas, nos asomamos a un local --me late que
nuevo-- en Pocitos justo frente al Centro Cultural Pocitos 80.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Prendas de gancho y de punto y dos
encantadoras señoras que las hacen y las venden. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">No tengo ni idea si siguen allá en estos días
navideños --¡ojalá y sí!—pero seguramente valdría la pena darse la vuelta para
ver qué cosas tengan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Y mientras estábamos allí platicando, pasa una
pareja vendiendo sus dulces típicos, ¡con todo y muestras! y son de veras DELICISIOSOS.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mi favorito es el jamoncillo ... aunque
debo decir que me encanta el ate de membrillo y de eso también tenían pero no
puedo dar fe como no lo probé.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Pero los dulces son excelentes. Se llaman ANA Y ÁNGEL.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Móviles 473 560 4636 y 477 145 4710
(León) y CORREO-E zavala48@live.com<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; text-transform: uppercase;">Y ahora por fin esos placeres gustatorios … </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; text-transform: uppercase;">Sette Caffé </span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">En el MIQ</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">¡Elegantísimo,
siempre un placer! Y el café, mmmmhhhhh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Nada de elegante pero un poco más económico en
cuanto al costo y ¡CARAMBA! El café igual de delicioso. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Yo
lo único que permito en la cocina de tu casa es el tueste obscuro francés y el
Quimera, del Cafetal.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Joya de Lobos:</span></b> La señoras de Pénjamo
con su queso de cabra. </div>
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Me fascina.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Igual de sabroso como el francés y también lo de Querétaro y de
Veracruz. </div>
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Creo que quien lo promueve aquí sigue siendo Gabriela de
Silva. Móvil 473 117 05 47.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Familia Rodríguez: jaliscienses
del queso </span></b></div>
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Mercado de Embajadoras, sólo los domingos, puestito a mano
derecha pasando Banamex y acercándose al antiguo mercado de un solo piso. Es la
primera vez que he probado queso de esta calidad aquí.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>De veras extraordinario.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tienen de Cotija tanto fresco como
añejo, de panela, y asadero tipo Oaxaca.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Por no mencionar un chorizo verde que trae perejil, cilantro, almendras.</div>
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Una vez más hay que cantar alabanzas a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Frutería Torres del Baratillo</span></b>
–la del Morenito, a.k.a. el “More”—por ahora tener ¡Gengibre Fresco!, por
dios.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Entre otras cosas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Quisiera comentar en cuanto a verduras como el “kale”
–pronúnciese keil , es una especie de repollo, y creo que el nombre viene de
una voz como antiguo frisiano o algo por el estilo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yo sé que algunas personas se sentían un poco relegadas por
el hecho de que el More no puede conseguir otra cosa que la verdura
empaquetada, que es una mierda porque se pudre en un santiamén – por no
mencionar el empaque.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Esto es un Ejemplo Primordial, amigos, de la Situación Slow
Food: 1) ¿cómo conectar productores con mercaderes locales (o sea, no de la <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">agribiznaga</i>) como el More de Frutería
Torres?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Y 2) ¿Cómo motivar a los
primeros productores – los granjeros—que cultiven estas verduras y cómo
procurar que perciban un precio justo por ellas? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Es absolutamente primordial resolver esta situación para que
México no caiga el las garras del <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">eje Monsanto-agribiznaga</i>.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Es cuestión de educar a todos, del
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He aquí una lista de mis nuevos “hallazgos” <span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">aquí en este momento, </span>a
rapidez luz – siempre teniendo en mente que algunos llevan semanas o incluso
meses en operación y por eso no les digo <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">noticias</i></b>, jejeje …</div>
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Explanada del Teatro Cervantes (Plaza Allende)</div>
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Quesos de cabra y de vaca, de México y de Francia, jamones d
México y de España (aunque el Ibérico todavía no llega … ). El lugar, de veras
un mini-local casi tamaño <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">¡Ha Ha!</span></b> es de una sencillez
deslumbrante con un estilo muy propio. Dicen que regalan tantito vino.</div>
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14 a 20h, domingo 14 a 21h</div>
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Encargada: Alejandra.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Adorable perra Brizma, como mi Estrella en miniatura y en blanco</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Puerta Roja </span></b></div>
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Amén del ya reconocido pan … galletas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Llevo tiempo fascinada por las de
avena; hace ratito me fijé que tienen otra variedad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Resulta que son de chispas de chocolate con un toquecito de
romero y de sal de mar. ¡Deliciosas! Ahora tienen cajitas de galletas
navideñas: la chica a 60 pesos, la grande 150.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>El detalle es que cerraron el 24, hasta el 5 de enero.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>¿¿Y eso??</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Las Cazuelas </span></b></div>
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Sangre de Cristo frente a la Puerta Roja</div>
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Antes tenían puesto en La Sauceda, conocidísima por su buena
comida tradicional.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ahora se cambiaron
pa’l centro, con los mismos deliciosos platos, servicio alegre y cortés, en un
lugar francamente hermoso: un edificio antiguo que ha sido cariñosamente
conservado con todo y testigos de piedra, con tejemanil y vigas de madera en
sus altos techos. Tan solo estar en el espacio es un manjar, de la comida ni
hablar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tengo entendido que abren
a la 8:00h con desayunos.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Habibi</span></b></div>
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En frente de la Explanada del Cervantino (Plaza Allende)</div>
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En caso de que todavía hay alguien que no sabe …<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>falafel, hummus, tabbouleh y otras
delicias de la comida medio-oriental … preparado en lo que parece un aseo casi
antiséptico; todo delicioso, por no mencionar MUY económico; váyanse a probar.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">100 Montaditos </span></b></div>
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Plaza de la Paz, más o menos frente al Banco del Bajío</div>
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Vas con unos amigos y cada quien pide lo que se le
antoja.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Empezando a 15 pesos, son
un montón de cosas “montadas” en mini-bolillos – de allí el nombre. Fui con dos
amigos <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“bec fin”</i> de aquí y todos que
probamos fueron bien sabrosos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Pides tu vinito o tu chela para acompañar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pagas cuando recojas tu orden: idea muy sensata porque al
final no hay confusiones o broncas acerca de cuánto debe cada quien.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Escarola</span></b></div>
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Calle Pocitos, frente al Museo Diego Rivera</div>
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Prometí un informe en junio; válgame, qué atroz retraso.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>El hecho es que el lugar es un encanto,
una suerte de oasis urbano. Entras,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>vas a la terraza que en efecto es donde se ubica el restaurante, y cuesta
trabajo creer que estás a pocos metros de la calle con coches y combis y todo
el barullo urbano.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Buenas ensaladas,
baguettes, cosas por el estilo; con la ventaja de que hay comida apta para
vegetarianos y hasta veganos.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">La vie en Rose</span></b></div>
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Calle Catarranas, a un costado del Teatro Principal</div>
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Creo que desde una semana de su abertura no había nadie en
Cuévano que no sabía de La Vie en Rose, la nueva <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">patisserie française</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Todo
de una indudable autenticidad, caramba, y delicioso como para morirse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yo todavía no he probado los platos
fuertes pero los postres son francamente fuera de este mundo.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Los Campos </span></b></div>
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Justo subiendo del Baratillo empezando el <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Callejón de las Verduras</i></div>
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Ahora, después de una larga y tenaz lucha, ¡con vino y licores!</div>
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Entré hace un par de días para
confirmar lo del vino y vi, colgados al mero fondo … ¡jamones! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Me explicó Michael que, consistente con
la filosofía de este excelente pareja (ella, chef, de Aguascalientes; él,
sommelier, canadiense anglófono) de promover productores locales, encontraron
un señor en León que cura jamón siguiendo la receta de su tío español.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Promete que tipo finales de enero
organizarán una degustación. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Gelatería <span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Giannini</span></b></div>
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Bueno.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Con el
Teatro Cervantes y su explanada a tus espaldas y con Sangre de Cristo a tu mano
izquierda, es a la derecha aproximadamente a la una del reloj.</div>
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Varios amigos llevaron meses
subiendo comentarios rapsódicas al <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Feis</i></b>, acerca de esta nueva
gelatería.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yo por fin entré en
agosto (creo) y sí, es para enloquecerse. Él italiano, ella mexicana: añun otro
de esos romances multiculturales que nos está consintiendo el paladar aquí.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gelati
</i>(que es lo de agua, como nieves) y <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">semifreddo
</i>que es como helado pero –me atrevo a decir-- más delicioso aún. También
tienen pastas y otros platos fuertes – que yo hasta la fecha no he probado. A
lo mejor ahora, en esta temporada fría cuando el <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">gelato</i> apetece menos, sería el momento para probar una pasta.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>¿Quién me acompaña?</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Corazón Parlante </span></b></div>
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Paseo de la Presa y otra sucursal en Sopeña</div>
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El del Paseo de la Presa es una delicia, sobre todo en
tiempos de calor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Un lugar
sumamente agradable para desayunar. Precios razonables, comida nada gourmet
pero sabrosísima. La sucursal de Sopeña es en un edificio antiguo y parece que
lo están usando muy bien. Es mi impresión que en la Presa tienen permiso para
vino y cerveza, y no en Sopeña … pero hay que indagarlo.</div>
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Lugares que desgraciadamente hasta la fecha no he probado:</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Somos Coreanos</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">La Madera</span></b></div>
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Vamos, queridos lectores ... ¿y sus propias reseñas?</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">What can I
say, six months after I’d every intention of posting another blog about the
pleasures of our city?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just that a
couple of people died, and then there were concerts to prepare for … And in any
case, there is so much happening in our Guanajuato that JIMINY, it’s not so
easy to stay on top of it all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
hope no one was expecting any deathless prose because there’s no time! <span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Happy Holidays!!</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I feel it important to mention that when I talk about our city I speak
in relative terms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s my
conviction that not one single child of Guanajuato should grow up without
entering the Teatro Juárez, at least twice, to stand right next to that
Steinway while someone plays Beethoven or Brahms or one of those guys, to feel
how that instrument vibrates. It still isn’t happening: I’m working on it.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; text-transform: uppercase;">Corporal pleasures:</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Danza Africana … Mesturas Danza Africana. Incredible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But not, alas, any more. One cycle
comes to a close and another opens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Fortunately, there’s still Raqs Sharqi (Egyptian Classical Dance) taught
by Catherine (Cathie) Gielis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
start classes again on Tuesday 6 January 2015. More info: </span><a href="mailto:catilie_gto@yahoo.fr">catilie_gto@yahoo.fr</a><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> or via Inbox en Facebook.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Various versions of Zumba … at the very VERY beginning there was the
legendary Guanajuato Gym. Then there was MoveOut<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>on Sangre de Cristo –really good because they were the first
gym here –as far as I know—to put a wood floor. MoveOut is really impressive,
because believe me, many other gyms have appeared here, all of which have spent
a lot –if not a boatful— of money … and MoveOut is the only one still afloat.
NEVERTHELESS … you have to evolve, you have to think about new tendencies and
discoveries! … you gotta do something to convince the guy who teaches AeroCombat,
and the gal who does AeroStep -or whatever they’re called- to every once in a
while try out a new routine, or just some new MUSIC for the love of
heaven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So when Karla
arrived –who it was totally clear from the outset is a born teacher—with a new
routine prepared for practically every class … well, it was a foregone
conclusion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First she left for the
cozy little space in Puertecito –where, by the way, Gerardo Luna still gives
several very respectable classes—; and a few months later, opened her own tiny
studio in San Sebastián #80, a few meters down the street from the baseball
stadium and right across from the church. It’s a darling little space and she
put mirrors!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And a wood
floor!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not at all luxurious but
very professional.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Karla is giving a level of classes which you practically don’t see here:
Circuit Zumba and Seated Zumba (I don’t know what the English names are) which
is in a chair – in effect the only way you get any abs work in Zumba. You might
find classes like this in León, and certainly in the DF; but I think that here
in Guanajuato Karla is still the only teacher doing this.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; text-transform: uppercase;">Other Pleasures … </span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This dates from early September, just before Independence Day
celebrations … in the Centro Histórico: Tuesday 9 September, on the way to the
vets with Azabacha, for her last vaccines, we peeked into a shop –I think it
was newly-opened at that time—on Pocitos just across from the Centro Cultural
Pocitos 81. Clothing both knitted and crocheted, made by the two lovely ladies
who are there selling their work.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I’ve no idea if they’re still open –hope so!—but they are certainly
worth a visit to see what they have for Los Reyes.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">So while we’re there chatting, comes by a couple selling <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">dulces típicos </i>(traditional sweets), and
they’re giving samples, and their stuff is DELICIOUS.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My favourite is the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">jamoncillo
</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>… although I must say I adore <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ate (AH-tay)</i> de membrillo (quince),
which they also have but which I didn’t taste so I can’t tell you what their <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ate</i> is like. Their names are <span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Ana y Ángel</span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cells 473 560 4636 and 477 145 4710 (León) and email </span><a href="mailto:zavala48@live.com"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">zavala48@live.com</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> .</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; text-transform: uppercase;">And now at long last for those gustatory pleasures … </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; text-transform: uppercase;">Sette Caffé </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">In </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">the MIQ</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Always elegant, always a
pleasure!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the café, mmmmmm.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; text-transform: uppercase;">Cafetal</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">On Sangre de Cristo at the corner of Temezcuitate, across from the Juan B. Diosdado school.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Not in the least elegant
but a little more economical, super-friendly, with looooong hours and WOW!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The coffee is just delicious.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The only coffee I have in my own
kitchen is the Obscuro Francés (dark) roast and the Quimera (a little lighter),
roasted in the Cafetal.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Joya de Lobos:</span></b> </div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Those ladies from Pénjamo with their wonderful goat cheese.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I love this
stuff. Just as tasty as the French chêvre –they imported a couple of Frenchmen
to help them get it right!—and compares favourably to that made in Querétaro
and Veracruz.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I think the
person who sells it here in Guanajuato is still Gabriela de Silva.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cell </span>473 117 05 47.<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Familia Rodríguez: jaliscienses </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; text-transform: uppercase;">with cheese</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Embajadoras market, Sundays only from about 8AM to 4PM. Their stand is
on the right, after Banamex and after the first door into the old part of the
market, the one of only one floor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is the first time I’ve tasted cheese of such quality here: it’s
really extraordinary. They have both fresh and aged Cotija, panela,
Oaxaca-style asadero (which is a bit like string cheese), and others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plus a green chorizo whose ingredients
include parsley, cilantro, and almonds. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Once more I want to sing the praises of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Frutería </span></b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Torres
del Baratillo</span></b> – proprietor el Morenito, a.k.a. el “More” – <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">because they now have Fresh Ginger!!
Among other things, like often bean-sprouts.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I want to
comment about vegetables like kale.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I know some people had their noses more than a tad out of joint with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">el Morenito</i> because the only kind of
kale he could get was the pre-packed kind which of course is garbage because it
starts to rot almost instantly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not
to mention the PACKAGING per se.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This is a
Primordial Example, dear friends, of the Slow Food Situation: 1) How do you
connect vegetable farmers and producers with local sellers –i.e. shortcut the
typical agribusiness network? – el Morenito has done this with asparagus and, I
believe, with fresh ginger, for example.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And 2) How do you motivate the farmers to cultivate these kinds of
vegetables AND get them a fair price for their crop? This situation MUST be
resolved if Mexico is not to fall terminally into the hands of the
agribusiness-Monsanto Bad Guys.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
means educating EVERYONE, from farmer to distributor to seller to
consumer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To be continued … </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">So here is a list of my latest “discoveries” right now … just please
remember that some of these places have had their doors open for weeks or even
months, so I really can’t call this <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">news</i></b>, hahaha …</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Explanade of
the </span>Teatro Cervantes (Plaza Allende)</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Cheeses of
goat and cow’s milk, from México and France; hams from México and Spain
(although the Ibérico still hadn’t arrived when I stopped by on 22 December) …
the place is a mini-local only slightly larger than the ¡HA HA! on Pocitos, of
a dazzling simplicity and its very own rustic style. They say they give a
little wine with the ham and cheese …</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">2PM – 8PM,
Sundays 2PM – 9PM.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The young
woman in charge: Alejandra.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Usually also there is her adorable dog Brizma, like a miniature Estrella
(my blonde dog) and mostly white.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As well as
the now well-known bread … COOKIES.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’ve loved the oatmeal ones since the beginning; a little while ago I
noticed that they had a new variety.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It turns out they are chocolate chip, but rather than with great big
chips, they are more like chocolate gratings; and with a touch of rosemary and
sea salt! YUMMM! Now they also have boxes of Christmas cookies: the small one
at 60 pesos and the larger one at 150.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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is they are closed from 24 December to 5 January.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is<span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> that </span>about???</span></div>
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Sangre de Cristo <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">right across from </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">la
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Before,
they had a stand in </span>La Sauceda, <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">well-loved for its excellent traditional cooking. Now they’ve come into
town, with the same delicious dishes, cheerful and courteous service, and in a
frankly gorgeous place: an old building lovingly preserved with all sorts of
touches like <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">testigos </i>of the original
stone, tejemanil and wooden beams in the high ceilings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just to be in that space is a major
treat, not to mention the food. I’ve been told that they open at 8am for breakfast.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Across from the Esplanade of the Teatro Cervantes (Plaza Allende)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">So just in case there’s anyone who hasn’t noticed yet … falafel,
hummous, tabbouleh, and other delicacies of Middle-eastern food, prepared in
what appear to be almost antiseptic conditions. All of it delicious, not to
mention really economical and really healthy! Go and have a taste!</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">100 Montaditos </span></b></div>
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Plaza de la Paz, <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">more or less across from the</span> Banco del
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">What you do is: go with a friend or two and each of you orders what
calls to you. Starting at 15 pesos, there are a whole bunch of tapas-like
things “montadas” –mounted on— mini-bolillos (tiny bread rolls); hence the name
of the place. I went with a couple of dear friends who are real lovers of good
food and everything we tried was really tasty. You order your glass of wine or
beer or soda to go along with your food.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You pay when you pick up your food and drink: a very sensible idea
because at the end there’s no hassle about who owes how much of the check. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Escarola</span></b></div>
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Calle Pocitos, frente al Museo Diego Rivera</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I promised a report about this place back in June: goodness me, how
dreadfully late I am! So the fact is that just THE PLACE Escarola is
enchanting, a kind of urban oasis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You go in, you go to the terrace which in effect is where the restaurant
is, and it’s hard to believe that you’re barely 15 feet away from the street
with all its noise and traffic (well, as much traffic as you can get on Calle
Pocitos, which thank heavens is not very much). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Good salads, baguettes, light food of that kind; and also
food for vegetarians and even vegans.</span></div>
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Calle Catarranas, <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">to one side of the </span>Teatro Principal</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I think that
by eight days after it opened, there can have been few people in Cuévano who
didn’t know about La Vie en Rose, the new </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;">pâtisserie française</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everything totally authentic, as far as I can tell, and
delicious To Die For.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I still
haven’t tried any of the main dishes like </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;">boeuf bourguignon </span></i><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;">or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">croque-monsieur
</i></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">but the pastries
and desserts are frankly Out Of This World. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Just coming
up from the </span>Baratillo <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">where
the </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Callejón de las Verduras </i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">begins</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And now, after a long and tenacious battle, with wine and liquor!!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I stopped by a few days ago to confirm the wine-and-liquor part, and
what should I see hanging in the shadowy part all the way in the back … but HAMS!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And looking like real Jamón Ibérico!
Michael explained that –in line with the philosophy of this excellent couple
(she, a chef, from Aguascalientes; he, Anglophone Canadian, a sommelier) of
promoting local producers, they found a gentleman outside of León who is curing
ham according to the recipe of his Spanish uncle. Michael promises a degustación
towards the end of January.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stay
tuned!!</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Gelatería <span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Giannini</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">With the
Teatro Cervantes behind you and Sangre de Cristo on your left, it’s the
building on the right, at about one o’clock.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s a sign out on the street.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think the Café Voltaire is still there in the same
building.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Various friends have been rhapsodising in FB for several months now,
about the new Gelatería up near the Teatro Cervantes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally I poked my nose in, in August I believe and YES,
this is insanely good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s
Italian, she’s Mexican … another one of these multicultural romances which is
doing amazing stuff for our palates here. There are <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">gelati </i>–water-based, like sorbet--; and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">semifreddo </i>which is like some hyper-evolved ice-cream.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They also make pastas and other main-dish
sorts of things which to date I haven’t sampled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I imagine that in the cold weather when gelati are less appetising
will be the moment to try the pastas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Who wants to come with me??</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Corazón Parlante </span></b></div>
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Paseo de la Presa <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">and another new one in</span> Sopeña</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The main branch in Paseo de la Presa is a delight, particularly in hot
weather.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I find it a very
agreeable place for breakfast or brunch. Reasonable prices, food not
particularly gourmet but very tasty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The new one in Sopeña is in yet another old building and though I
haven’t gone in and looked about it seems as though they’r using the space in a
nice way. I think in la Presa they have beer and wine permission but not in
Sopeña … but check it out.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">So here are two places which have been here for AGES which I still
haven’t checked out:</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; text-transform: uppercase;">Somos Coreanos </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">in Avenida Juárez across from the Jardín Reforma</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; text-transform: uppercase;">La Madera</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">
behind the Teatro Juárez</span></div>
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THOUGHTS ON THE ASO LOCKOUT</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Here is
where you can donate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am far
from rolling in greenbacks right now, raising money to get <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Monarca </i></b>out to the world
and all … but I’m sending my $25. When you read about Maestro Robert Spano
putting his own money where his mouth is ( <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/24/arts/music/atlanta-symphony-orchestra-music-director-backs-performers.html?_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/24/arts/music/atlanta-symphony-orchestra-music-director-backs-performers.html?_r=0</a>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;">I’m going to continue posting stuff about this, because, I repeat: it is
as important as National Security.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It <b>IS</b> national security.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What does it say about the US that an arts organization like the ASO can
be allowed to go out of business?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In my humble opinion, that is up there with high infant mortality</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;">,
or throwing acid in the faces of girls who want to go to school,</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;"> as an indicator of quality of life.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Such a
convenient narrative, this one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s
sample a couple of juicy key points:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“There’s no more money like this any more.”</span></i></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meaning, money like that which is necessary to support a
Symphony Orchestra.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or to have
much art at all, really and truly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Because, count on it, once the </span>symphony <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">orchestras are gone there will start to be
arguments made for getting rid of chamber orchestras because there isn’t any
more of <span style="text-transform: uppercase;">that </span>kind of money
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Oh really?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the money
which many rather low-level people on Wall Street make?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or the money that some people on the
boards of such institutions make … is there no money like that any more?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is that not around anymore either?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Really.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People who do not
have to worry –who have never had to worry for even a minute, let alone a day—
about how they would deal with one of their children breaking an arm, or decent
pregnancy and birth care of a wife or sister … are saying things about
musicians like: “It does make me wonder … I’m not calling them crazy. I’m just
wondering if they’re crazy.” This was Mr. Douglas Hertz, chair of the Woodruff
Board, talking about some existential crisis which he appears to be having
about this whole business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
remark of his edges up, I swear, to the “when did you stop beating your wife”
sort of commentary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How exactly
was this supposed to be constructive?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Or was it just supposed to demonstrate his essential –and maybe
EXISTENTIAL— ignorance about Art In General? Or demonstrate that frankly, my
dear, he just Doesn’t Give A Damn?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Like some sort of Good Ol’ Boy or something. I decline to speculate
further because it would be insulting … for everyone’s … intelligence.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">For me this is a slightly –but only very slightly—more sophisticated version
of the now tried-and-true USian Blame The Worker<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>litany.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
pretty tired one, by now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do I
need to go over how the workers of Detroit somehow ended up being responsible
for the numerous and Really Embarrassing errors of management, both in
strategic and business planning and in terms of just plain reading the
scientific evidence?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought
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Who are WE to deny the popular taste?" </b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Now this is really rich.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here
are these people salivating to step up to bat and hold forth about how they are
really populist, really For The People.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>All just because they have managed to develop some twisted discourse
that you can’t play Mozart or Brahms or Copland for Jane & Joe Sixpack
because “people like that can’t appreciate this kind of music”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And anyway, J & J can’t afford the
ticket price. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">WOW. Might the former be because education budgets have been cut to the
bone and jeez, there’s no money for a music –or art, or literature, teacher any
more?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Might the latter be because
both Js have been laid off and now have no health coverage? Do you need to
ask?: they got laid off because of the suicidally stupid business “decisions”
of these “managers” who suddenly and inexplicably are qualified to judge the
viability of a Symphony Orchestra.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>People who, I intuit, can barely manage a visit to their own hearts.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In other words, the justification for not having art in people’s lives
is because of a situation which these “managers” themselves created. Pretty
rich, almost as rich as they are themselves, except in their spirits where they
are appallingly poor.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I don’t want to belittle anyone’s contribution to Society As A Whole,
but might it not be possible that Each and Every One of these ASO musicians is
making more of a contribution than some mid-level cutie on Wall Street, or a mediocre MBA who
thinks classical music is something that you use to go to sleep?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just sayin’, as they say. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And anyway, which one is making more of a contribution to the general Balance
Of Beauty in the Universe? Do you have to even think about your answer to this?
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I already warned you this was not going to be my Most Buddhist Self,
people, so no reproaches please.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It breaks my heart, it makes me cry, to read:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;">“Though they’ve been
locked out of Symphony Hall, the ASO players have not stopped playing. They’ve
played chamber music at a local club, Terminal West, and Friday night, about 35
players will perform two shows at the 525-seat theater at Oglethorpe
University. They’re being led by Richard Prior, the Emory Symphony Orchestra’s
conductor.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;">After walking the picket line earlier in the week, the players were
thrilled to be onstage at Oglethorpe for a rehearsal and to be joined by
members of the Atlanta Mozart Choir.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;">‘It feels a little exciting and subversive,’ said Michael Kurth, the
bassist helping organize the performances. ‘It actually feels exhilarating to
be with my colleagues, and just proper. It’s what I’m supposed to be doing.’</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;">This is what they DO, dear ones, it IS what they are supposed to be
doing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And you know what
else?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It <b><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">is </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">subversive – because with every beautiful note they play together, in
love and solidarity, they are sowing doubt in the mind of every listener.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;">Doubt about the
pseudo-values espoused by people like Mr Douglas Hertz, whose deathless --as in
Night of the Living Passive-Aggressive Undead-- words I quote above. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;">And with the Atlanta
Mozart Choir, so beautiful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is
no accident that one of the primary tools for union organizers in Europe in the
late 19<sup>th</sup> century, and later in the USA, was the choir, or some sort
of choral group.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are few
things that can wake the heart and move the soul like voices together in
harmony: it’s a model for solidarity and unity of purpose. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;">I totally understand that someone may have been born to read the Mysterious
Tarot of the Stock Market or know what Banks and Currencies will Do Tomorrow,
or any one of those things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
the happy fact of the matter is that these colleagues of mine do something that
materially improves the lives of those around them, every day. Just that
simple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How many Bankers and
Currency Traders can say the same?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Respuesta al artículo
publicado el 8 de septiembre 2014 en la revista digital <a href="http://www.avenidadigital30/">www.avenidadigital30</a> por Nancy Rodríguez
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>con el título </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Se espera elección del
nuevo Director de la Orquesta Sinfónica de Guanajuato</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><a href="http://www.avenidadigital30.com/se-espera-eleccion-del-nuevo-director-de-la-orquesta-sinfonica-de-guanajuato/"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">http://www.avenidadigital30.com/se-espera-eleccion-del-nuevo-director-de-la-orquesta-sinfonica-de-guanajuato/</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div>
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en Guanajuato</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Ana Cervantes, 16 de
septiembre 2014</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Antes
que nada gracias a Nancy Rodríguez por escribir su artículo, y a
avenidadigital30 por publicarlo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Qué
bien la manera en que destaca las incontables horas de labor, en su mayoría invisibles,
que preceden lo que vemos en el escenario, no solo de los instrumentistas sino
del director.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; text-transform: uppercase;">Sin embargo:</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> Yo añadiría también el trabajo de los tramoyistas,
del bibliotecario, de la secre, de TODOS, porque esto sí que es un trabajo en
equipo: falta tan solo uno de estos elementos y difícilmente se lleva a cabo el
concierto.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; text-transform: uppercase;">Además: </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Con cara de juat </span></i></b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">pregunto porqué se comenta, en este artículo, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">siguen los cuchicheos del porqué se originó
esta renuncia</i> cuando la larga lista de razones se da con total claridad en
la carta que el Maestro Trigos compartió con la prensa el día de renunciar su
cargo. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Primero
comento una sola aseveración de la Mtra Rodríguez con que no estoy de acuerdo;
y luego me permito agregar cuatro logros –entre los muchos de los casi tres años
pasados-- que por alguna razón no se mencionaron. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; text-transform: uppercase;">Primero</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">discrepo</b>
de lo que la Maestra Nancy Rodríguez dice de la programación de Trigos. La autora
habla de mezclar <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“de manera atinada,
tanto el repertorio tradicional, como el contemporáneo, es necesario
presentarlo ante los oídos de los melómanos, pero sin olvidar de cuando en
cuando aquellas obras que tanto gustan, que son preferidas por su popularidad o
por su belleza.”</i> … y sigue, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Quizá
esto último fue olvidado por el maestro Trigos, amante de la música contemporánea
y no tan amigo de la música clásica o nacionalista, o de otros periodos musicales.”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Perdóname,
pero de ninguna manera. Si uno examinara los programas de mano de la OSUG de
los pasados tres años estoy segura que se vería una programación no sólo
equilibrada entre piezas nuevas y las del repertorio, sino muy bien concebida,
con hilos conectores entre las piezas tanto convincentes como conmovedores.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>¿De dónde sale esta noción de que Juan
Trigos es <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“no tan amigo de la música clásica
o nacionalista, o de otros periodos musicales”</i>?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yo nunca le escuché decir nada de esta talante. ¿Será porque
es compositor? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Somos
la Atenas de por acá</i></b>, Ibargúengoitia <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">dixit</i>.</span></div>
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además, aún si fuese cierto que el Maestro Trigos programara más música nueva
que del repertorio, ¿qué más da? Esta nueva creación es tanto parte de nuestro
patrimonio como las Sinfonías de Beethoven o de Chávez.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">En
cambio, la programación del anterior director de tiempo muy parcial, el Mtro Enrique
Bátiz Campbell, parecía ser un permanente reciclaje de piezas del canon –además
mal dirigidas, en mi humilde opinión-- y fue cada vez más una fuente de quejas
por parte del público.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>El renovado
entusiasmo de los escuchas, palpable en el primer concierto que dirigió Juan
Trigos a inicios del 2012, da fe de cuánta esperanza había acerca de este nuevo
capítulo en la vida de nuestra Orquesta Sinfónica.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Una esperanza que triste e innecesariamente, ahora ha
quedado segada.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Y
yo digo “nuestra” Orquesta Sinfónica porque –alineada con la referencia que
hace la Mtra Nancy Rodríguez al<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“bien de la cultura de Guanajuato”</i> – quiero
reiterar que debemos de pensar en la cultura como la salud pública, igual de
importante como la seguridad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No
se dejen engañar, queridos lectores: esta orquesta, construida y desarrollada
con tanta labor durante sus 60 años de vida -que por cierto festejamos el año
pasado con Juan Trigos en el podio- es parte medular de nuestra colectiva salud
mental, emocional y social.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">¿Todavía
están conmigo? Vamos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Agrego al
recital de los logros de nuestra OSUG con el Maestro Juan Trigos las siguientes
cuatro cosas: </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; text-transform: uppercase;">Primero</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">, la obtención del apoyo de <span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Conaculta </span>e <span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Inba </span>mediante
la beca del EPRO-Música (Estímulos a la Producción Nacional-Música) para el
encargo y grabación de obras de compositores mexicanos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>La primera producción discográfica –de
TRIPLE disco, queridos lectores- ya está y sólo falta presentarlo y meterlo en
las tiendas. Y por cierto, ¿porqué no una orgullosa presentación aquí en
Guanajuato además de en la capital, para que los músicos de nuestra Orquesta
puedan gozar de esta joya?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ojo,
aquí el chisme: para la segunda grabación, tengo entendido, sí se logró
localizar el recurso federal que se entregó y que después no se pudo encontrar en
nuestra Casa de Estudios, creo que esta grabación ya está pagada y no sé qué es
el siguiente paso; pero allí está, ¡¡¡YUPIIIII!!!</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; text-transform: uppercase;">Segundo</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">, la práctica de abrir la puerta a los principales –y
otros- de nuestra Sinfónica, a que tocaran <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">concerti</i>
como solistas: algo que se hace en cualquier otra orquesta de categoría a nivel
mundial pero que apenas se había emprendido en la época de José Luis Castillo y
luego abandonado con el Mtro EBC. Los resultados han sido extraordinarios,
tanto en cuanto al moral de la agrupación como en el entusiasmo del público.
Por no mencionar lo que viene en primer lugar: la calidad musical de la
interpretación.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; text-transform: uppercase;">Tercero</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">, el instituir el ciclo de conciertos Solistas de
la OSUG, en que varios ensambles de música de cámara se presentan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Es en este contexto, el más expuesto y
exigente imaginable –<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">un músico a cada
parte y sin director</i>, según una de las definiciones canónicas de la música
de cámara- que se puede apreciar los dones de estos integrantes de nuestra
orquesta. Y son impresionantes.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; text-transform: uppercase;">Cuarto y
final</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">: Mencioné al inicio que lo
de cualquier orquesta es un trabajo en equipo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A mí me llama mucha la atención que poco después de entrar
el Maestro Trigos, los auxiliares técnicos –o sea, los tramoyistas- entraban al
escenario vestidos de traje con corbata.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Juro que estos señores, muchas veces tratados como si apenas fueran
visibles –excepto cuando se necesitaba de sus músculos- ahora se portan con
mayor orgullo. No se dejen engañar: otro logro que tiene más que un poco que ver
con nuestra colectiva salud mental.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">En
cuanto a los “sinfónicos” que se citaron en el artículo: por un lado, qué bien
que se decidió hacerlo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Por otro
lado, creo que la autora podría haber pensado mejor su elección de entrevistados.
¡La segunda persona entrevistada ahora ni siquiera pertenece a la OSUG! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Obviamente tiene todo el derecho de opinar
sobre la orquesta, pero no, por favor, como integrante.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A mi ver hay otros que pudieran haber
comentado de manera considerablemente más propositiva y con mucho menos
cinismo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>El triste hecho es que
hay atrilistas que en su vida no encuentran ni una sola cosa positiva que decir
de un director, aunque fuese Furtwängler o Toscanini.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"> </span>
Ana Cervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09378653918304616448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1830541354533635072.post-87255013306191727152014-08-22T20:36:00.001-07:002014-08-22T20:36:36.976-07:00PLACERES DE GUANAJUATO_01 / GUANAJUATO PLEASURES_01
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Placeres de Guanajuato / Guanajuato Pleasures</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Please scroll down for English ...<br />
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Queridos todos:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Hace rato que se me ocurrió la idea de girar un
pequeño escrito esporádico compartiendo unas cosas que estoy disfrutando –ya
sea temporal o menos temporalmente – digo, la vida de por sí es temporal, ¿no?
¡<span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Carpe Diem</span>!— aquí en la ciudad
de Guanajuato donde tengo la gran dicha de radicar. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Por fin, después de numerosas e inexplicables demoras, lo hago. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Por supuesto que varios amigas y amigos están
haciendo algo parecido de tal tamaño han sido los cambios en nuestra hermosa ciudad
(aunque orgánicos, por lo general, creo) … y además, como bien saben los que me
conocen, tengo el hábito de volverme algo hermitaña entre giras y así no me
entero de la nueva sensación; … así que yo escribo todo esto primordialmente en
el espíritu de compartir mis propios placeres, que es lo que hay que hacer con
ésos, ¿verdad? -- sean del paladar, del oído, del corazón … lo que sea … en
lugar de estar la Primera en Compartir la Nueva Movida.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Examinando mis propios gustos, me doy cuenta de que
muchas de estas cosas que disfruto son muy de <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Slow Food</i>: es decir, provienen de fuentes locales, los ingresos que
generan se devuelven a la gente de aquí y no van a dar con los bolsillos de
corporaciones que no tienen ninguna conexión o compromiso con Guanajuato.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Entre otros factores, pero baste
empezar con éstos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A mi ver, en México estamos en una posición única:
sin entrar en más detalles, podemos aprender de los errores y los éxitos tanto
de los de al norte como de los de al sur y elegir, de tener la valentía,
nuestro propio camino.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tenemos una
dieta ancestral –por mencionar sólo una cosa— que es entre las más sanas del
planeta, suponiendo que no nos dejemos corromper del todo por la Coca. Tenemos
una de las panoramas de artes escénicas más vibrantes y creativos del planeta y
un gobierno que --hasta la fecha-- apoya al arte y al transporte público (ojalá y así siga).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Digo, sean los que sean </span><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">
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otros problemas,
que no son cosa baladí pero bueno: otro día.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Como me encantan los placeres de la mesa, es lógico
que la gran mayoría de las cosas que aquí menciono tienen que ver con la
comida. Pero no todas. Quizás sería mejor decir que son placeres de cualquier
tipo que me interesan: tanto corporales como mentales, incluso a veces
espirituales. Entonces, va el primer número de Placeres de Guanajuato /
Guanajuato Pleasures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>¡Ojalá y no
sea el único!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Quisiera empezar por decir que hace tres años y
medio, recuperé mi sentido de gratitud por radicar aquí.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bueno, no lo había perdido exactamente,
pero tampoco –entre una cosa y otra- estaba del todo presente en mí.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tengo un recuerdo muy nítido de mi
deseo de tener de nuevo esa sensación de extraordinaria dicha que tenía durante
todo el año Fulbright-García Robles, que fue mi primer año aquí.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Como a veces sucede, sin ni siquiera pensarlo
mucho, tan sólo con desearlo, sucedió.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Y ¿sabes qué, querido lector? – mejor que mejor: las cosas que en ese
momento estaban sucediendo aquí fueron cosas que hace 15 años (sí, parece
mentira pero llegué aquí en agosto del 1999) eran un sueño o de pleno
imposibles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Yo sé que nos queda un trecho aquí en esta Ciudad
Patrimonio –y ¡caramba!, no es un trecho pequeño— pero sin embargo, ciertas
cosas aquí se han mejorado.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Por
citar dos: hay menos perro callejero –gracias principalmente, me parece, a la
labor titánica de organizaciones como Amigos de los Animales— y por lo tanto,
menos excremento canino en las calles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Estoy segura que no es del todo desconectado de la
cuestión del perro callejero que hay más actividad económica local.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Digo, yo hablo no sólo del micro-local
de <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Xocolate</b> en la Plaza del
Baratillo y del <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">taller de joyería
escultórica </b>de <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Cathie Gielis </b>(naturalizada
mexicana de su natal Bélgica) sino también de mujeres campesinas con productos
de nopal, de otras mujeres con jabones elaborados de forma artesanal. Incluso
de las mujeres en el Mercado Hidalgo que antes vendían sus quesos en bolsas de
plástico como si nada y ahora los venden con una etiquetita.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Esto no es señal de <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">gentrificación</i>: al contrario, es señal
de orgullo en su propia labor y sus resultados. Ellas, al menos, empiezan a
evitar esta terrible tendencia que tenemos, de infravalorar nuestro propio
capital humano. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">En otro escrito hablaré de las cuestiones sociales
y sociológicas, al menos de las de mi barrio, que es el único que conozco. Está
muy presente todo esto por el proyecto de barrio que tuve con nuestra
Asociación Vecinal que hace poco se entregó.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Próximamente … </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Pero por ahora, a lo que te trujo Chencha …</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; text-transform: uppercase;">Los Campos:</span></u></b><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> ¿Hay mejor ejemplo de la ensalada cosmopolita que
es nuestra ciudad? Difícil imaginárselo: ella, Chef, mexicana de tierras
hidrocálidos (o sea, querido lector, de Aguascalientes) y él (somelier) de
Canadá anglófono.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>La comida es de
una imaginación y una inventividad asombrosas. Por no mencionar la
presentación, que es una delicia, y que delata totalmente el orgullo que esta
pareja-equipo tiene en su creación gastronómica.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Y otra cosa: la primera vez que yo fui, me llamó
poderosamente la atención que usan <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">SERVILLETAS
DE TELA</b> (¡¡luces, bomba y platilla!!).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Servilletas de tela, queridos lectores, piénsanlo: esto
significa para un restaurante una disminución épica de basura.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Además de que es mil veces, repito MIL
VECES, más agradable, placentero y civilizado.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>El CAVEAT ÚNICO, y digo el ÚNICO, es que a estas fechas
todavía no tienen su licencia de bebidas alcohólicas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Parece mentira pero desgraciadamente así es.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Aquellos con palanca en Presidencia,
¡¡A LA CARGA POR FAVOR!!] De ser permitido, les diría que traigan sus botellas
de tequila y mezcal fino, de ron y de vino … y de alguna manera se procuraría
servirlos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pero esto no es
permitido, de manera que no lo digo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">El deleite
que es Los Campos se encuentra</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> apenas subiendo del Baratillo: con espaldas a Cantarranas
y a la fuente, se ve como una “Y”. Por el ramal izquierdo se llegará a la
Compañía.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Por el ramal derecho, al
“callejón de las verduras”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Allí,
y de inmediato se ve su portal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Por lo pronto abren tipo 15:00 (3PM) hasta tipo 22:00 (10PM).</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; text-transform: uppercase;">Xocolate:</span></u></b><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> A apenas cinco metros de <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Los Campos </b>es <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">El Lugar del
Chocolate</b>: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Xocolate</span></b>, en una ortografía entre su nativo náhuatl y
castellano.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Y es prácticamente un
lugar sagrado, mis queridos. Chocolates varios: barras de chocolate desde el
blanco hasta el 95% cacao, ¡no miento! Cuando abrieron sus puertas hace unos
tres años, dijo mi querida amiga y colaboradora la renombrada poeta Lirio
Garduño, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">¡La civilización ha llegado a Guanajuato!</i></b> Olvídense, todos que
pasen por estas puertas, de Godiva Chocolates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nada que ver. Baste con decir que en un reciente visita me
enteré de unas nuevas variedades, entre ellas un chocolate amargo con vinagre
balsámico y no recuerdo qué más; y otro de chocolate de leche con epazote y …
no lo revelo, sólo digo que por lo general para mí el chocolate de leche no es
chocolate pero en este caso hago una muy grata excepción. Y el siempre
asombroso chocolate con Chipotle, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ayayay
madre mía</i>. Yo cuando tengo que administrarme estrechamente me compro una
rueda del chocolate de mesa y en lugar de hacer chocolate <span style="text-transform: uppercase;">lo como</span>, con el mayor placer del mundo,
mmmmhhh.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; text-transform: uppercase;">Frutería Torres Hmnos, </span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">a.k.a.</span></u></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> la Frutería del Baratillo, </span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">a.k.a.</span></u></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> la frutería del moreno</span></u></b><u><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">:</span></u><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Todo mundo ya debe de
saberlo, pero para las pocas personas que no … hace tres años que en la
primavera aparece en esta frutería espárragos; mora azul; mora; ahora kale (que
es un repollo cuyo nombre en castellano se<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>me escapa) … y muchas otras cosas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Además de la extensa y rica selección de frutas y verduras
de siempre; dependiendo, por supuesto, la estación.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Me llama la atención que aquí aparecen estas
verduras.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hace 10 años, en San
Miguel Allende para un concierto, vi pasar en la calle unos señores vendiendo
espárragos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seguramente, pensé,
por los extranjeros allá que lo piden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Pero aquí ni huella, sólo en la Comercial o en la Mega en 120 pesos el
kilo, algo así.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hasta que apareció
allá con el More <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>en el
Baratillo—válgame, espárragos a eso de 70 o 80 pesos el kilo, y digo, de una
frescura increíble, como si vinieran de tu propia hortaliza. Allí siguen.
Considéranse avisados.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Entre otras cosas, esto me llama la atención porque
esta frutería no surte a alguna población gringa o adinerada –de todas formas
la gran mayoría de la población gringa aquí está mejor dotada intelectual que
financieramente— no mis queridos, esta frutería vende a nacionales, y creo que
no hay nadie allí que hable una palabra de otro idioma que el castellano. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Los extranjeros que se ven en esta
frutería compran allí porque saben que la verdura y fruta es mil veces mejor
que la que se vende –marchitada y con precios carísimos— en los sitios
supuestamente más cómodos para extranjeros, o sea la Comercial o la Mega.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Que --¡caramba, soy la primera en
decirlo!-- tienen sus usos … pero la verdura fresca, local y deliciosa no suele
ser uno de ellos. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">O sea, queridos amigos, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">esto es lo nuestro</span></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Compran aquí, en estos lugares, en
estos negocios, atesórenlos.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; text-transform: uppercase;">La Puerta roja: Pan, y buenérrimo </span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; text-transform: uppercase;">… </span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">En primer lugar, como han
de saber, a veces me pongo en Plan Hermitaña.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A veces no estoy, porque tengo conciertos en otras partes
del planeta; y luego cuando llego, estoy preparándome para la siguiente salida,
o descansando.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pasé buena parte de
febrero a junio descansando del intensísimo año pasado<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>--si quieren más detalles consulta
varias entradas en este mismo blog, empezando tipo mediados del 2012.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Así que fue hasta tipo mayo que un buen
día, paseándome por Sangre de Cristo, que se me cayó el veinte de algo nuevo
allí.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Caramba, me digo, ¡una
panadería!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Creo que esa primera
vez ni entré, pero poco después, sí. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Es un lugar padrísimo, como aquí se dice: Uno de
esos edificios antiguos pero medio humildes, un espacio acogedor, a escala
humana, de esos que no se puede imitar, ¿ves?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Han hecho lo mínimo al espacio, de manera muy respetuosa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ofrecen un par de ensaladas y sopas,
varios baguettes, comida ligera.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Confieso que no he probado esta otra comida, solo el pan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Porque ofrecen una bien cuidada selección de panes,
todos hechos con masa madre, o sea en inglés <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sourdough</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">natural yeast</i>,
la levadura que se hace de harina, un poco de miel o azúcar, y el aire, mis
queridos, los milagrosos microbios del aire porque allí sí que vienen microbios
que hacen –o se convierten en- levadura.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Este proceso requiere de mucha paciencia y es muchísimo menos seguro que
abrir un sobre de levadura … pero los resultados son de veras
maravillosos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>En pocas palabras,
es aún otro proceso artesanal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">¿Ves?: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">esto es lo nuestro</span></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; text-transform: uppercase;">Masaje, </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">a.k.a. <span style="text-transform: uppercase;">las asombrosas Hermanas Flores <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>… y sus salsas</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; text-transform: uppercase;">.
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hace un par de meses pasé a la frutería
del Baratillo y al lado vi a las Asombrosas Hermanas Flores. Que,
asombrosamente y con su acostumbrada tenacidad e imaginación, habían abierto
otro lugar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Son rebuenas
masajistas, fueron las primeras aquí (que yo sepa) y parece que no se dan por
vencidas, nunca. Allí puedes buscar tu masaje <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">exprés</i> de pies o de espalda, o tu masaje del todo <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">no-exprés </i>de todo el cuerpo. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ahora tienen, de forma a veces
esporádica, unas salsas que son –como aquí se dice—de poca madre.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Una de cacahuate con gengibre, otra
como de chile asado con un toquecito de vinagre … más artesanía.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mis respetos. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">CORREO-E:</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span><a href="mailto:floresrosalia@hotmail.com"><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">floresrosalia@hotmail.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; text-transform: uppercase;">Celular:</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> 473 120 05 14</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; text-transform: uppercase;">Casa Cuatro: Yoga y Pilates </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">con Tlathui
Benavides </span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">…
y bueno, habiendo dicho todo esto, hay Yoga y Pilates en la Casa Cuatro con
Tlathui Benavides, que además de talentosísima bailarina es buenérrima
instructora de estas dos disciplinas tan importantes. Y digo, para todos,
tengas 20 años o 60, seas hombre o mujer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">También en plena Plaza Baratillo, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Centro
Bharati:</span></b> Yoga con <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Alejandra </span></b>… .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(¿Ya ven la variedad que ahora tenemos
aquí?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Es asombroso.) Y aquí la
comida es buena y vegetariana y hay una boutique bastante mono de ropa hindú. ¡¡Mmmhhh!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Tardía adición: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Escarola</span></b> … en Positos
#38, casi frente a la Casa-Museo Diego Rivera.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apenas inaugura y no he probado la comida; pero ayer,
volviendo de llevar a la Azabacha a sus vacunas, nos asomamos y vimos el sitio
y la carta.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hermosos los dos. Se
supone que hay opciones de comida incluso veganas; además de platos para
carnívoros y vegetarianos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Me
aseguro de comer allí en estos días para dar un informe.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Guanajuato Pleasures</span></b></div>
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</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Dear all, </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Quite a while ago it
occurred to me that it would be fun to send around some sporadic notes sharing
things which I am enjoying here in this city of Guanajuato --where I have the
great good fortune to live—either temporarily or oh well, less temporarily.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since life is pretty temporary, right?
CARPE DIEM. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Anyway … Finally, after inexplicable delays, I am
starting to do this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Now, various friends are
doing similar things, so extensive have been the changes in our beautiful city
(and organic I believe, on the whole) … Those of you who know me know that
I turn into a hermit between tours, so I’m not always up on the Very Latest
Sensation; thus I can assure you that I write all this in the spirit of sharing
these pleasures of mine, which is what we should do with pleasures, right? –be
they of the palate, the ear, the heart … whatever; rather than being the First
to Discover the Latest Sensation.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">I feel that in Mexico we
are un a unique position: without going into more detail, we can learn from the
successes and the errors of our neighbours to the north as well as to the
south; and choose, if we have the courage to do so, our own way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have an ancestral diet –to mention
just one thing—which is among the healthiest on the planet. We have one of the
most vibrant and creative performing arts scenes on the planet; and a
government which –so far!—supports the arts and public transport. I mean,
whatever its problems in other areas may be: which are not exactly
insubstantial … but more on that another day.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Examining my own tastes, I
realize that many of these things which I enjoy are very Slow Food: that is,
they come from local sources, the income they generate is returned to the
people of this place instead of ending up in the pockets of corporations who
have neither connection with --nor commitment to-- Guanajuato. That <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>should do to start with.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">And then, since I take
great delight in the pleasures of the table, it’s logical that the great
majority of the things I mention here have to do with eating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But not all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps it would be better to say that what interest me are
pleasures of any kind, corporeal as well as mental; even, sometimes,
spiritual.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So here is the first
number of these Pleasures of Guanajuato … let’s hope it’s not the only one!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">I want to start by saying that
some three and a half years ago, I recovered my sense of gratitude at living
here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mean, I hadn’t lost it
exactly, but between one thing and another it wasn’t as present in me as it had
been. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have a very clear memory
of intensely desiring to have again that sensation of extraordinary good
fortune which I had during the whole Fulbright (more correctly,
Fulbright-García Robles) year in Guanajuato, which was my first whole year
here.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">As sometimes happens,
without thinking about it much, just wanting it, it happened. And you know
what, dear reader? – better yet: the things which are now happening here are
things which 15 years ago –seems impossible, right? but I arrived here in
August of 1999— were a dream or totally unthinkable.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">I know we have a way to go
here in this UNESCO World Heritage Zone City<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>--and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">caramba</i>,
it’s not a little bit of a way—but nevertheless, certain things are better
here. Just to mention two: there are fewer street dogs –thanks principally, in
my view, to the titanic work of VOLUNTEER organizationes like Amigos de los
Animales – and therefore, less animal excrement in the streets; and second,
there is more local economic activity.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">I’m talking not just about
the micro-local of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Xocolate</b> in the
Plaza del Baratillo (see below), or about the Taller de Joyería Escultórica
(Sculptural Jewelry Workshop, see the next installment) of Cathie Gielis
–native of Belgium but naturalized Mexican for some years now— in Casa Cuatro)—;
but also of countrywomen with products made from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">nopal</i>; and with<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>other products
like soaps, handmade from local herbs and vegetables.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m talking also about the women in the Mercado Hidalgo who
ten years ago sold their cheeses –from goats’ and cows’ milk—as though they
were nothing and now have little labels on them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is not some process of gentrification: on the contrary,
it’s a sign of pride in their own work and its results.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These women, at least, are starting to
find a way around that terrible tendency we have, to undervalue our own human
capital.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">In another post I’ll start
to speak about the social and sociological questions, at least those of my own <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">barrio</i>, which is really the only one I
know. All this is very uppermost in my mind because of the neighbourhood
project which we recently delivered, I and the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Asociación Vecinal (</i>Neighbourhood Association) to which I belong.
Soon …</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">But for now, to what I
promised …</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Los Campos: Is there a
better example of the cosmopolitan salad which our city is becoming? Hard to
imagine: she, a Real Chef, from Aguascalientes; he a sommelier, from Anglophone
Canada. The food is astoundingly imaginative and inventive. Not to mention the
presentation, which is as delicious as the food and which totally reveals the
pride which this couple-team have in their gastronomic creation.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">And another thing: the
first time I went (when they were still in Alonso) I was bowled over when I saw
that they have <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Cloth Napkins</span></b>. (Lots of lights, drum roll!!)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cloth Napkins, dear readers, just
think about it: this signifies, for a restaurant, a near-titanic reduction in
garbage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Besides which it is a
thousand times, I mean a bazillion times, more agreeable more pleasant, more
civilized. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The Only Caveat, and really
The ONLY one, is that as of the beginning of July they still –in spite of the
most diligent and tenacious efforts with the Relevant Authorities— do not have
their permit to serve alcohol. If it were permitted, I would say to you that
you should bring your bottles of fine tequila and mezcal, of good<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>wine … and in some fashion it would be
possible to serve them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But this
is not permitted, and so I shall not say it.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">This delight which is Los
Campos is to be found just coming up from the Baratillo: with your back to
Cantarranas and the fountain, it looks like a “Y”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you take the left arm you will go to the Compañía.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The right arm will take you to the
“Callejón of Vegetables”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Beginning the right arm you see their sign.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe that for now they are opening from 3<span style="text-transform: uppercase;">pm</span> to 11PM. <span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Enjoy</span>!!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Barely five meters from Los
Campos, you will find The Chocolate Place: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Xocolate,</span></b> spelled somewhere between
native Nahuatl and Spanish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
indeed, it is practically a sacred site. Various chocolates: bars from white to
95% cacao, I swear! When they opened up about three years ago, my dear friend
the renowned poet Lirio Garduño exclaimed, “Civilization has arrived in Guanajuato!”
Forget about Godiva Chocolates, all you who pass through these doors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a different league. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Suffice it to say that on a
recent visit I tasted<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>some new
varieties invented by the proprietors (he from Puebla, she from the Bajío),
among them a dark chocolate with balsamic vinegar and I don’t remember what
else; milk chocolate with epazote and … I won’t reveal it, I’ll just say that
in general for me milk chocolate doesn’t even qualify as chocolate but in this
case I make a very happy exception. And that always astounding chocolate con
chipotle, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ayayay madre mía</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I am in Austerity Mode, instead of
buying individual chocolates I just buy one of those wheels of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">chocolate de mesa </i>and instead of making
chocolate to drink I just eat it, with the greatest possible delight, yummmm.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; text-transform: uppercase;">Frutería Torres Hmnos, </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">a.k.a.</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> la Frutería del Baratillo, </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">a.k.a.</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> la frutería del moreno</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Everyone should already know about this, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but for the few people who don’t … some three years ago in
the Spring I was amazed to see ASPARAGUS in this vegetable store; as well as
blackberries, blueberries, now kale …<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>and various other more “exotic” vegetables and fruits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aside from the usual extensive
selection of stuff, always varying depending on the season of course.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s very interesting to me that we’re
seeing these sorts of things here. Ten years ago, when I was in San Miguel de
Allende <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(SMA) with Ehecalli for a
chamber music concert, I saw country men on the street selling asparagus; at
the time I figured it was surely because there were foreigners in SMA and thus
a market for such a thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But in
Guanajuato at that time, not a trace: just in the Mega or the Comercial
Mexicana (the two US-style supermarkets here) all dried up and at a very
inflated price. And there are plenty of Mexicans who like asparagus, it’s not
just a foreign taste! Until it appeared with el More (short for el Moreno, the
proprietor of the Baratillo vegetable store) … and what asparagus it was and
is!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Costs anywhere between 40 and
70 pesos the kilo and so fresh it might have come from your own kitchen garden.
Be aware … !</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Various reasons this
interests me, but at the head of the list is that this frutería doesn’t sell to
a fancy gringo or foreigner clientele – in any case the great majority of the
foreigners here are better-endowed intellectually than financially!—no my
dears, this frutería sells to nationals; and I believe that no one who works
there speaks anything other than Spanish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The foreigners who shop there do so because they know that the fruit and
veggies are a thousand times better and fresher than what you generally find in
the Comercial or the Mega, all wrinkled and old and overpriced. Those
supermarkets have their uses, I’m the first to acknowledge, but good fresh
local produce is generally not among them.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">So, dear ones, this is
ours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Buy here, in these places
and these businesses, take an interest in them, treasure them.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; text-transform: uppercase;">La Puerta Roja (The Red Door)</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">: really Good Bread! …</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As some of you know, there
are times when I become a bit of a Hermit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes I’m not here because I have concerts in other
parts of the planet; and then when I get home I’m preparing for the next trip,
or just plain resting. So it wasn’t until this past May that one fine day,
strolling down Sangre de Cristo, the penny dropped that there was something new
there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Caramba, I said to myself,
a bakery! I think that first time I didn’t even go in, but shortly thereafter,
I did.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">It’s a delightful place:
one of those old buildings, one of the rather humble ones, a cozy space on a
human scale, one of those you just can’t imitate, you know?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They’ve done the minimum to the space,
in a very respectful fashion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As
well as being a bakery, they’re a restaurant, offering a couple of salads and
soups, various baguettes: light food. I confess I haven’t yet tried the food,
so far just the bread. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">So far just the bread is
enough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because they offer a
well-considered selection of breads, all made with sourdough yeast –which is
the yeast you get, with luck, when you mix together some flour, a little honey
or sugar, and air, my dears: those miraculous microbes in the air, because in
the air are microbes which make, or change into, yeast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This process requires considerable
patience and is way less sure than just opening an envelope of yeast … but the
results are truly marvellous. Yet another artisanal process.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">You see? <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">This
is ours.</span></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; text-transform: uppercase;">Massage</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">, a.k.a. the <span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Amazing Flores Sisters </span></span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">… and their salsas! A couple of months ago I went into the Frutería del
Baratillo and in the next doorway saw the Amazing Flores Sisters, both of them.
Who, amazingly and with their usual tenacity and imagination, had opened
another place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are really
good <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">masajistas</i> (masseuses), both of
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think they were the first
real ones here; and they seem never to give up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now you can get a Massage Express for feet or back, or your
whole-body no-express massage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Now, more or less sporadically, they also have these salsas (sauces)
which are, as we say here, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">de poca madre</i>
(drop-dead delicious).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The two
I’ve tried are peanuts with chile and ginger; and roast chile with a bit of
vinegar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">artesanía</i>.
My respects.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">E-mail:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span><a href="mailto:floresrosalia@hotmail.com"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">floresrosalia@hotmail.com</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Casa Cuatro: Yoga y Pilates
with Tlathui Benavides … OK, having said all the foregoing, in Casa Cuatro
there’s Yoga and Pilates with Tlathui Benavides, who besides being an
incredibly gifted dancer is a really fine instructor of these two very
important disciplines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And really,
for everyone, whether you are 20 or 60 years old, man or woman.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Also right in the Plaza del
Baratillo, the Centro Bharati: where there’s yoga with Alejandra as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now are you starting to see the variety
we have here?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s astounding. And
in the Centro Bharati there’s good Indian vegetarian food and a nice little
boutique of Indian clothes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>YUMMM!!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A late addition: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Escarola
</span></b>… in Pocitos #38, almost exactly in front of the Casa-Museo Diego
Rivera. They just opened and I haven’t tried the food yet; but the other day,
returning from taking Azabacha for her vaccines, we poked our heads in and saw
the place and the menu.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both
really lovely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It seems there are
options fro vegans, for carnivores, and for vegetarians.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I shall do everything possible to eat
there soon and deliver a report ;=))</span></div>
Ana Cervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09378653918304616448noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1830541354533635072.post-10206081907848737872014-04-28T20:24:00.002-07:002014-04-28T20:26:01.866-07:00MARCHÁNDOME.1: VIGILIAS Y SUEÑOS, SIGNOS Y PORTENTOS_24 ABRIL 2013 <br />
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En algo menos que cinco días me marcharé, y mi nueva vida
empezará. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Saldré con esta relación
con el tabaco y mi nuevo amante, como dice L***, será el Aire Libre.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mmmhhh.</div>
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Cada vez más durante esta semana
pasada me he trasladado a la Zona Instintiva.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sin siquiera pensarlo, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>volví a leer el capítulo en la LobaBiblia (Mujeres que corren
con las lobas, de Clarissa Pínkola Estés) sobre Vasalisa la Sabía y la búsqueda
de conexión con el instinto. Todos mis canales están configurados aRecibir
ahora, todo que se arrima a mi consciencia lo hace por una sola razón: este
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Ana Cervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09378653918304616448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1830541354533635072.post-40398087288376930662014-04-28T20:14:00.000-07:002014-04-28T20:25:09.345-07:00LEAVING.1: VIGILS & DREAMS, SIGNS & PORTENTS: 24 APRIL 2013<br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; text-transform: uppercase;">leaving.1: vigils and dreams, signs and portents</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In
something less than five days I will be leaving, and my new life will
begin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will leave this
relationship with tobacco and my new lover, as L*** says, will be Fresh Air.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mmmhhh. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Increasingly
over this last week I have moved into the Zone of Instinct.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Without even thinking why, I reread the
chapter in the “Wolf-Woman” book (<i><b>Women who Run with the Wolves</b></i>, Clarissa
Pinkola Estés) on Vasalisa and the seeking out of connection with instinct.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All my channels are set to RECEIVE now,
everything that impinges on my consciousness does so for a reason: this course
on which I’m set.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">L*** said to me, “I am astounded at how centred and directed you are.
You are like an <span style="text-transform: uppercase;">arrow</span>”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have thought of being like an
arrow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have thought about being
like Warrior One (I think it is), one arm pointed ahead like a directional
sign, like an urging-on, like a beckoning forward.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I have
prepared for this departure almost as carefully as I did for the one from N***,
in the waning days of 1989, after some 15 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had stopped playing the piano in any serious way, for
reasons that are not germane here, and had spent a lot of that juice pretty
much running my then-partner’s business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(Which I did quite well: it grossed a million US$ the last year I worked
there.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I awoke to music
again, and to my relationship with the piano, it was a painful awakening
because I had to acknowledge that I’d broken faith with that relationship, the
central one in my life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
mysteriously and miraculously, it had not broken faith with me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My decision to start practicing again made
clear to me that my relationship with the piano and my relationship with the
man could not coexist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">At first,
it seemed to me that this was sort of a model for what I am doing now; and, in
fact, it was quite useful in certain ways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In thinking about this I realized that a far better model
was the relationship with R***, because it took Pleasure into account: the
carnal part of that relationship was unequivocally the best ever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the Helpfulness Quotient (HQ) was
almost a Missing Piece there, in spite of the intellectual brilliance and the
afore-mentioned sexual part.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So
this second model accommodated the profound and multifaceted pleasure I
received from smoking for such a very long time. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In both cases, each of these men had started to leave me, in one way or
another, long before I left them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Tobacco has been starting to leave me for a while now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Its HQ was going down all the
time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has been impeding
me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew this over six years
ago: it was why, after <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Solo Rumores</i></b>, I stopped smoking at
the computer and then inside my house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Finally I
had to decide that it was impeding more than it was helping or giving pleasure:
as with R***, the pleasure was no longer worth the dragging-down part.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I realized
just a few minutes ago, meditating on this, that in my life I have never put up
with anyone restricting my freedom of movement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes it takes me a while –that first 15-year
relationship took the longest time— but sooner or later I take a walk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or a run!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There have
been Harpy Attacks: How will you concentrate?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How will you control your weight?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just you wait, the terror and anxiety will destroy you and
you will run out and buy a pack of cigarettes and then how will you feel, you
pathetic excuse for a woman/human being/artist?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I know from Harpy Attacks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And I think I know what to do about them: one of the most moving moments
in all my reading is when, in Philip Pullman’s trilogy, the answer comes “<span style="text-transform: uppercase;">tell them stories</span>”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even the Harpies are hurting inside,
that is why they want to lacerate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So tell them stories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
stories are full of faith and delight: how I will have <span style="text-transform: uppercase;">better</span> concentration because my brain will be receiving more
oxygen, my weight will be OK, in fact <span style="text-transform: uppercase;">better</span>,
because now I will be able to run, run, RUN like my <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tocaya </i>Ana Guevara, as far and as beautifully as I may wish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And panic and terror will not be
present because they are not part of my being now, in fact just the thought of
that in the cold light of day is laughable.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Remembering how it was in the waning days of 1989 as I prepared with
such care to leave the relationship with N***, I actually went back and found a
half-remembered journal entry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
is dated 26 December 1989 and says:</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“These last few weeks,
I feel emotionally the way I felt musically when I really had my chops up:
every time I had a question or confusion, I would take a minute and look inside
myself, almost in fear that I had finally hit the wall where there were no more
answers – and lo and behold, spread out before me for the taking <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>was </u></b>the answer, the solution, or
the thought that pointed me towards the changed mind-set that let me see the
solution.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“I feel as though I
have been gulping down great mouthfuls of learning about myself and about <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>things</u></b>: a collection of big and
little wisdoms that put all together give me wings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps this is why I have felt so little hunger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I enjoy food, but it doesn’t have the
desperate importance for me that it had in the past; now I am fed by other
things, marvellous underground springs of music and awareness that have been
struck by some staff and have emerged from the parched ground to sustain me.”</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Yes, I have
prepared for this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Little by
little, over the last ten days or so, the ashtrays have been removed or
relocated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now I do not even look
for most of them where they were.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Little by little, my own auto-hypnosis is working: the other day I
picked up a cigarette and it looked like some alien object in my hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And as in
that wonderful quote attributed to Goethe, providence has intervened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I returned from the Fulbright
interviews in the DF on Saturday evening, on my desk was the package containing
<span style="text-transform: uppercase;">my new balance ball</span>!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which I was finally able to order
because of the Torreón concert!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
the spare plug kit and the pump, that I’d ordered from the wonderful
Balls’n’Bands place in one of the Carolinas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My body is working towards being fighting fit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; text-transform: uppercase;">of Signs and portents</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> I dream: everybody dreams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I rarely remember them, it seems,
except in times of great crisis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Of threshold moments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
re-read Polly Carl’s wonderful post on Howlround ( </span><a href="http://www.howlround.com/notes-on-generosity-in-the-theater-by-polly-carl/"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">http://www.howlround.com/notes-on-generosity-in-the-theater-by-polly-carl/</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">two days
ago and that term came jumping out at me outlined in lights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Threshold moments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the moments, she says, in which
it is most important to be <span style="text-transform: uppercase;">generous</span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In the worst year of my life –the Dreadful Winter of Ice and Snow of
1997, in which my only sister died after not speaking to me for almost ten
years— I learned to Ask For News.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And my dreams faithfully reported it, in a neutral fashion just like the
news.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes it was
terrible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Often altho’ terrible it
was weirdly reassuring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like Haydn
and Schubert and Ibarra, the Dream News reassured me that I was still alive and
sentient.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">So this
time also I asked for news, just before drifting off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first night I dreamed of blood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was quite clear that it was menstrual
blood, but there was no sensation of alarm or fear associated with it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The second time I dreamed that I was
actually IN the Allen Carr course!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It all felt so comfortable, so reassuring, so good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The most recent time was last
night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It wasn’t until halfway
through the morning I remembered it: the image of a Warrior-Woman, an
Athlete-Woman, muscles toned, lean and sinewy and proud.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was half as though I was looking at
her and half as though I <span style="text-transform: uppercase;">was</span>
her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Power of Intention is
alive and strong.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I don’t
interpret any of these dreams here: I am running on intuition and if anyone
wants them explained she may have to wait; or engage the imagination-muscles and
figure them out herself … </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ratiocination
has, as I move towards this threshold, less and less to do with anything. This
was confirmed in a long talk I had with A*** last week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is the dearly respected friend and
colleague who stopped with Allen Carr while she was smoking three packs of
cigarettes daily.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Without terror,
without the famous withdrawal, without anything at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It was</i></b> --she said-- <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">as
though I had never smoked</i></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Just listen</i></b>, she said, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">turn off your intellect, just listen and
absorb, open yourself</i></b>.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Beautiful
reading yesterday by Lirio Garduño: poetry of Efraín Huerta and Thelma
Nava.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some wonderful observations
–from Lirio and from her assembled listeners—about the renewing of the
language.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That we acknowledge and
value lineage but we are open to the new.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This is the
Garden: for something to be born something else must die.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We must make room for New Growth, for
new stuff to happen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes it
can be difficult to bring ourselves to prune but it is only thus that a plant
may bear new shoots.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And if it is
dead, well let it die, and plant something else in its place.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">More than
once, these last two weeks, into my mind has come the vision of the
about-to-be-knight, who spends the hours of darkness before his ordination
keeping vigil, in meditation, contemplation, and prayer, preparing himself
–herself? we know there were cases of women who passed themselves off as men,
who fought valiantly with the arms of men— for the rite of the morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This has been such a time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am preparing for My New Life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The
logistics are arranged.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will
arrive to the DF on Sunday evening and I will stay in a nice economical hotel
which, allowing generously for the insane Monday-morning traffic, should be
only one hour from the place of the course.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have confirmed my place in the course.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a Sanborn’s half a block away
where I can have a good delicious breakfast beforehand –it will be six and a
half hours, after all!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I will
arise at 5:30, leave the hotel at 7:00, have my delicious sustaining breakfast,
and move easily and lovingly into the preparation for My New Life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I don’t know what I will do afterwards, particularly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know I will immediately go back to
the same breakfast Sanborn’s and have a wonderful comida!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then I have a date with Mario Lavista
to go and FINALLY pick up his <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Monarca</i></b> piece … two years late but
oh well, still in time for the second recording session ;=)) … and then I don’t
know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If it’s not too late and I
feel like it, I may just come back home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Five hours on the bus but then to be here with Azabacha and Estrella and
Zumo … could be!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the other hand I may stay with
one of the friends I have on semi-alert in the DF.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The hotel is part of the vigil: I knew that when it turned out that the
dear friend closest to the course would be returning from the LA Book Fair
Sunday night and couldn’t be sure if his plane might be delayed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So much the better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Time for contemplation, meditation,
prayer, and anticipated joy.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">What am I reading?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Loba-Biblia,
the Wolf-Woman book (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Women who run with the Wolves</i></b>, of
Clarissa Pinkola Estés, you know it) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>… and Harry Potter. Magic, learning, high adventure, opening
the doors which appear when we open ourselves to see them.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Much love to you all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From
the bottom of my heart again I thank you for your energy, your love, your
friendship.</span></div>
Ana Cervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09378653918304616448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1830541354533635072.post-25560601678650346172014-04-28T20:11:00.000-07:002014-04-28T20:11:35.265-07:00LEAVING.5_APRIL 2014: ENGLISH<br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">THOUGHTS<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>21 ABRIL 2014: LEAVING.05</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 29 April
2014 at about 15:30hrs, it will be a year since I smoked my last cigarette.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">At the
time, I wrote about the experience of leaving my relationship with tobacco, but
for various reasons never published anything on my blog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Relatively few friends, all very close
to me, knew about this event but the vast majority of friends and fans knew
nothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Sorry</span>!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now I’m
out of the closet, as it were.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Here are
some random observations, collected over the course of this last twelve
months.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During that same year I also
recorded and launched the two discs of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Canto de la Monarca </i></b>– lots of
blogging about that, just look around here in January and July of 2013!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">OK, to
begin with: It seems very much in fashion to be profoundly anti-tobacco.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There seem to be no shades of grey, no
middle ground. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Here goes,
however unfashionable it may be: I would be lying if I said I didn’t enjoy some
90% of the cigarettes I smoked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Goodness me, how I loved smoking!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It brings a nostalgic smile to my lips just remembering it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">By the same
token, it would be a lie to say I suffered horribly when I left that
relationship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, I had a couple
of hours when I felt itchy with self-doubt, wondering if I’d done the right
thing –something to which I realize I am allergic!— but that was principally
because of the behavioural –as opposed to the physical— part of the
dependency.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it all got
resolved quite easily with the good meal to which I treated myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Read all about it in Leaving.3.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A number of
people said or wrote things that gave me the sense that they had visions of
Cervantes fighting tooth and nail to free herself from the clutches of this horrid
malevolent addiction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Phrases like
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“your
battle with addiction” </i></b>tended to appear, almost outlined with lurid
orange lights or cartoon lightning zigzags.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Very Hollywood, my dears, but it wasn’t like that at all.
Really and truly, I just did what any of us does when she sets out to
accomplish a task, whether it’s learning a piece of music or building a house:
I organized myself with the best tools at my disposal –the first of which was
my imagination— and let the work begin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The truth
is, I was ready to leave, as I’d been ready to leave other relationships in
which I’d become entwined and which had started to be damaging.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In all of them I had already, in some
sense, been left: there had been some parting of the ways, somehow it had
become clear that the Person In Question wanted some other kind of woman, or
just some other woman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here, I
began to see that tobacco had already left me: it was starting to take a toll,
to slow me down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So it was time
for me to take my leave, as graciously and easily as possible, causing as
little aggravation as I could.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Like a lady? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes. Like the
Amiable (though Imperious) Diva which I aim to be? Yes indeed.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">So it turns
out that not everyone wants to hear that I didn’t suffer! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was amazed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In that couple of weeks after smoking that final cigarette
–sort of like making love for what you (at least) are pretty sure will be the
last time— I ran into LOTS of people with whom I shared that I’d left
tobacco.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some were really
supportive – interesting that many people who still smoke and are enjoying it a
lot were among the most supportive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There were others who, apparently, had stopped and deeply felt that
they’d given something up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>One said, “It’s been three years and every time someone lights up, I
STILL want to smoke a cigarette.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Then he looked at me with a penetrating glance and asked, “So how do you
feel?” When I said that I was just deliriously happy he shot me a glance laden
with profound skepticism. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">All of a sudden I realized that sharing my own happiness was not always
going to make other people happy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’d seen this before in my life but had forgotten: misery loves
company!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I told this to my
dear friend Z*** Y***, a therapist who has done a lot of work around substance
abuse, she said <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sounds like you were
smoking for a lot of people.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Even over the telephone I could hear the smile in her voice.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And then
there are the people –mostly non-smokers but who maybe have had their own
issues from major to minor with alcohol or food or whatever— who are genuinely
interested in how it worked for me, what my experience has been.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For me this has been really
heart-warming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This is
going to sound totally off the wall, but it is true: there are times when I
think about cigarettes, and about smoking them, and the whole thing seems
irrelevant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s the best word I
can think of.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cigarettes have nothing
to do with me, good or bad, enjoyable or disgusting. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They just don’t matter.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Also, it’s
been amusing for me to discover the huge amount of folklore around this dependency
business, in particular as it relates to tobacco. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Occasionally useful altho’ rarely; mostly amusing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For one thing, the data are totally
contradictory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think they fail
to take into account that each body is different. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Several people, upon learning that I’d left, sent me these adorable
lists of good changes that happen to your body when you stop smoking
tobacco.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In both English and
Spanish, bless their hearts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Several different versions, as I recall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In one it said that I would have less body hair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was accompanied by a rendering of
a hairy arm followed by a less hairy one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I find myself wondering, not for the first time, what this sort of thing
tells us about the popular image of female beauty … but that’s another blog,
sorry.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Well, I am sorry to tell you that in the case of my own body this has
not been the case.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I seem to have
more hair on my head and on my arms and everywhere else women have hair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not abundantly more, but I do
notice that I have to go to the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">depilación</i>
place a little more often: I’m still getting used to that part.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No complaints: I am a Big Hair Gal and
feel that you can never have too much hair –at least on your head. Or be too
rich or too thin … just joking … </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Obviously
the relationship between art and dependency has been much written-about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The death by heroin of Philip Seymour
Hoffman brought out a lot of commentaries about how the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“sensitives”</i> among us are particularly vulnerable to addiction
problems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And there were the
inevitable commentaries about how for such people, when they are artists, the
dependency may even be a sort of necessary precondition for their creative
work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I have some real problems with this whole package of stuff<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For one thing, it is a terrible
stereotyping of the artist: real romantic twaddle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The worst is when young artists believe it! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Plus, it’s just not the case: look at all the musicians –just to mention
one category— who ended their abusive relationships with alcohol or other drugs
and carried on to have splendid careers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They didn’t lose an iota of their musical passion or potency, and almost
certainly they added years to their lives both creative and physical. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As you
might imagine, I thought about this a lot, before I left smoking. Also
afterwards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If there was anything
that worried me it was precisely that bit: how tobacco was hooked in to My Life
As A Musician.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remembered, many
times, how from one day to the next I abandoned the cigarette and ashtray on
their own little table by the side of the piano, a few weeks after I started
working with Lettvin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No one
–least of all me—was trying to get me to stop smoking tobacco … but it suddenly
became a distraction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not only
there was no need for it, it was positively In The Way. I thought of this as
another model, not certain how it would come into play but pretty sure it
would, literally or metaphorically.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And of course, it did: smoking had started to hold me back more than it
pleased me: ergo, it was In The Way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Time for me to go.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The friend
who left cigarettes when she was smoking as many as 60 cigarettes a day said,
before I stopped, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“It’s not about
cigarettes as such, it’s about your <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">relationship
</b>with cigarettes – <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it’s much more
about YOU.”</i> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I have
never regretted this decision, not for one single minute.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the contrary, I feel profoundly
grateful that leaving that relationship –so gratifying for so many years— was so
easy, at the end when it was no longer very exciting and had become a burden.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Nostalgie du tabac</span></i></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There has been and still is what I have come to think of as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“nostalgie du tabac”</i> –no idea why I
think it in French, maybe all those sexy French actors smoking?--: nostalgia
for tobacco.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most definitely it is
not nostalgia for <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">smoking </i></b>tobacco: I have zero desire to smoke. Rather, it’s
nostalgia for the way I felt in certain moments when I smoked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Interestingly, almost all of them have to
do with being alone, with moving apart from the crowd in one way or
another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lots to chew on here,
obviously.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I got my wish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Three or four times I have actually had moments in which I realized,
incredulous, that I almost wished I wanted it – makes me laugh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After the last time this happened I
understood: to not want it was what I’d so passionately desired, almost seven
years ago. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">At various moments during the last 20 years or so, I’ve realized: all
the things I really desired, I have received.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">OK, the weight part.</span></i></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you’ve read the earlier parts of this posting, you know
that I had this vision of myself looking something like my <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tocaya </i>(namesake) Ana Guevara the Mexican runner, within six months
after that last cigarette.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
has not happened. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, there
are some four or five kilos around my middle that were not there before. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I oscillate between fury at the weight
and delight in the extra-delicious flavour food now has, as well as a kind of
silly-happiness about almost everything, fundamentally about being alive and
sentient. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">People don’t know what to think about this either, at least some of
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the one hand, in every
possible Righteous Way, they have to be happy that Ana Left Tobacco.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the other hand, are they happy to
see me looking A Tad Plump?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What
is WRONG with La Q, for heaven’s sake?!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">But I can’t explain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
guess I have figured –using the model of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I seem to have
achieved the things I’ve really desired”</i> – that at a certain point the
equilibrium would re-establish itself, product of a mysterious gyroscope whose
rule-book I do not have but only intuit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It seems I’m not quite ready for the Madonna Macrobiotic Diet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, perhaps if there were a really
appealing chef cooking it up for me … I never say never.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In the meantime, as always when I am here, I go out every morning to
walk or run with my two wonderful companions Azabacha and Estrella.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the last month I seem to have
finally re-established a good work rhythm at the piano.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Curiously, going hand-in-hand with this
is the re-establishment of my own Pilates-Yoga-mélange of mat work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So who knows? –maybe that
gyroscope is activating itself.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Important to understand: leaving tobacco is a major metabolic hit. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you’d drunk a glass of orange juice upon
arising every morning for several decades, and suddenly one day you didn’t, your
body would let you know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tobacco is
surely a bit more complex than this example but you get the idea. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe there’s some research on this
but really, in the middle of recording the two <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Monarca</i></b> CDs and all the attendant
craziness I couldn’t be bothered to do the necessary looking around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A kind of innocence.</span></i></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> I smell the perfume of a
newly-lighted cigarette and it smells delicious to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it gives me no desire to
smoke.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I find this an absolutely
amazing and delightful phenomenon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is a kind of innocent pleasure which I imagine to be that of being an
little girl and smelling the cigarette of my father –or of my mother, for that
matter, they both smoked— and loving the scent without wanting anything more.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Curiosity.</span></i></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As in many other moments, <span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Curiosity
</span>was an impetus which generated enormous energy for me.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For example: I played my
first tobacco-free concert exactly one month after smoking that last cigarette,
and that was quite cool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had
absolutely no idea what it would feel like and the cool part was that it all
went perfectly fine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was gratifyingly
surprised to find that I felt no different than when I was smoking: the
concentration and the focus were the same.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact they were slightly better, I think now: perhaps
because of having more oxygen in my body?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Another
example: when I went to the US for the DC and NY launches of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Monarca</i></b>,
it was the first time I’d been in DC as a non-smoker since I was a teenager …
and the first time ever in New York City. Here too, I wondered how that would
feel. On the one hand, ¡¡SURPRISE!! It really didn’t feel that different.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the other hand, it was an amazing
sort of historical landmark in my own life.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Do it for Your Own
Reasons. </span></i></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the very end of that six and a
half-hour Allen Carr course, the therapist/group leader said, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“This is sort of a cliché, but it’s extremely
important. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We always read that we
should Do Things For Ourselves: meditation, exercise, relaxation, a walk in the
woods, whatever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the same,
but in a different way: it’s critical that you leave cigarettes for <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">your</b> own reasons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Write them down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Put a copy on the fridge, keep one in
your wallet or your purse, another by your bedside – wherever you think you may
need it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone around you will
have a long list of good reasons why you should leave cigarettes: don’t do it
for <span style="text-transform: uppercase;">their </span>reasons, do it for <span style="text-transform: uppercase;">yours</span>.”</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Impossible to overstate how important and wonderful this advice was for
me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the days and weeks and
months unfolded after that last cigarette –smoked with joy but also, the truth be
told, with a bit of boredom, in anticipation of my soon-to-arrive freedom— I
was to understand again and again how right-on it is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So true: everyone around me had a whole list of reasons why
it would be good for me to leave smoking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’m sure all of them were valid, persuasive, whatever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But at the end of the day those reasons
–as I suppose they often do in these situations— had way more to do with each
of those people than they did with me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">What were MY reasons for leaving? If you’ve read the previous chapters
in this little history you’ll know a bunch of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the end of the day, the central reason is: </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It Was Time To Go.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">What do I
take away, most centrally, now, a year after leaving?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think it’s this: </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Primordially,
more and more: The Happiness Part is Up To Me. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Second, that The Choice and the Reasons are Mine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Not so strange, I guess, that those were the central lessons of other
leavings, other movings-on, other evolutions in my life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The best is still to come!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">MARCHÁNDOME_5:
<span style="text-transform: uppercase;">27 abril 2014</span></span></div>
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El 29 de abril 2014 tipo 15:30h, hará un año desde que fumé
mi ultimo cigarro.</div>
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A la sazón, escribí sobre la experiencia de dejar mi
relación con el tabaco, pero por varias razones nunca subí nada a mi blog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unos pocos muy cercanos amigos sabían de
este acontecimiento, pero la gran mayoría de amigos y fans no supo nada. ¡¡<span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Perdón</span>!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ahora salgo del armario, como quien dice.</div>
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Van unas observaciones más o menos aleatorias,
juntadas durante el transcurso de los pasados doce meses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Durante ese mismo año grabé y presenté
los dos discos de <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Canto de la Monarca: Mujeres en México </i></b>–sobre le cual sí subí bastante
al blog: ¡indáguenlo aquí en enero y julio del 2013!</div>
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Vale, por empezar: parece estar muy
de modo hablar pestes del tabaco, estar totalmente anti-tabaquismo; parece que
no hay escala de grises, todo blanco o negro.</div>
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Pues va, por fuera de modo que
parezca: mentiría si dijera que no disfruté el 90% de los cigarros que
fumé.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Santo dios, ¡cómo me encantó
fumar!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sólo recordarlo me lleva
una sonrisa nostálgica a los labios. Mmmhhh.</div>
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Así mismo, sería una mentira
gruesísima decir que sufrí horriblemente a la hora de dejar esa relación.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sí, tuve un par de horas en que me
asaltó la cosquilla de la auto-duda, preguntándome si hubiera hecho la cosa
correcta –algo a que me doy cuenta de que estoy ALÉRGICA— pero eso fue
principalmente por la parte psicológica, no la física— de la dependencia. Y se
resolvió muy fácilmente con la buena comida a que me invité. Léelo en
SALIENDO.3.</div>
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Varias personas dijeron o
escribieron cosas que me dieron la sensación de que ellos tenían visiones de
Cervantes batallando a todo lo que daba para liberarse de las garras de esta
horrenda y malévola adicción.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Solían aparecer frases como <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tu
batalla con la adicción</i> casi enmarcadas con luces anaranjadas o imágenes de
relámpagos de caricatura, como la publicidad de una peli de los años cuarenta
del siglo pasado. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Muy <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hollywood</i>, mis queridos, pero así no fue
en lo más mínimo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>En realidad,
sólo hice lo que cualquier de nosotros hace cuando resuelva hacer una tarea, ya
sea preparar la interpretación de una pieza de música o la construcción de una
casa: me organicé con las mejores herramientas disponibles y manos a la obra.</div>
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La verdad es que ya estuve lista
para salir, igual como había estado lista para salir de otras relaciones en que
me había entretejido y que habían empezado a hacerme daño.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>En todas la Persona En Cuestión ya me
había dejado, en algún sentido: los caminos se habían dividido, se había puesto
en claro que dicha Persona quisiera otro tipo de mujer o simplemente, otra
mujer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aquí, empecé a ver que el
tabaco también ya me había dejado: empezó a hacerme mella, a aminorarme el
paso. Así que era hora de hacer mutis, lo más grata y fácilmente posible,
ocasionando la mínima molestia que pudiera.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>¿Cómo una doña? Sí.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>¿Cómo la Amable –aunque Imperiosa— Diva que quiero ser?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>En lo absoluto.</div>
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Pues ¡resulta que no todo mundo
quisiera saber que no sufrí! Quedé atónita.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>En ese par de semanas después de fuma ese último cigarro –algo
parecido a hacer el amor por lo que sabes será la última vez— me topé con
toneladas de personas con quienes compartía que había dejado de fumar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Algunas estuvieron súper apoyativas –
interesante que mucha gente que todavía fuma y lo disfruta mucho fue entre las
personas más positivas. Hubo otras personas que, según me dijeron, habían
dejado de fumar y todavía sintieron privadas de algo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Uno me dijo, Hace tres años desde que lo dejé y todavía,
cada que alguien enciende uno en mi alrededor todavía me muero de ganas de
fumar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Luego me mira con una
mirada penetrante y me pregunta, “¿Y cómo te sientes?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Le digo que me siento increíblemente
feliz me lanza una mirada cargada de escepticismo y recelo.</div>
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De repente me doy cuenta que el
compartir mi propia felicidad no siempre dará alegría a los demás. Lo había
visto antes en mi vida pero lo había olvidado.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cuando conté todo esto a mi querida amiga Z*** Y***,
terapista que trabaja mucho con asuntos de adicción, ella dijo, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Sounds like you were smoking for a lot of people </span>(Parece que
estabas fumando para mucha gente)</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Aún en el teléfono de Skype pude escuchar su sonrisa.</div>
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Y luego hubo las personas<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-principalmente no-fumadores pero que
quizás han tenido sus batallas desde menor hasta acampal con la comida o la bebida
o lo que sea— genuinamente interesadas en cómo me fue, cómo era. Para mí esto
de veras me cayó muy bien.</div>
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Esto parecerá completamente loco
pero es verdad: hay momentos cuando pienso en el cigarro y en fumarlo, y el
asunto entero me parece irrelevante.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Es la mejor palabra que se me ocurre.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>El cigarro ya no tiene nada que ver conmigo, bueno o malo,
disfrutable o asqueroso. Simplemente no importa.</div>
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También ha sido divertido descubrir
la enorme cantidad de folclor alrededor del asunto de la dependencia, en particular
en lo que se refiere al tabaco.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
veces útil aunque rara vez; principalmente divertido.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Por empezar, los datos son del todo contradictorios.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Creo que no toman en cuenta que cada
cuerpo es distinto.</div>
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Varias personas, al saber que yo
había salido, me enviaron estas chulísimas listas de los cambios positivos que
pasan a tu cuerpo cuando dejas de fumar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Tanto en inglés como en español, benditos. Varias versiones distintas,
si sirve la memoria.</div>
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En una, dijo que yo iba a tener
menos vello en mi cuerpo –porque el tabaco puede impedir la producción de
estrógeno que, se supone, pone su límite en la cantidad de cabello y vello que
el cuerpo femenino produce. Éste iba acompañada por una imagen de esas
digitales de un antebrazo bastante hirsuto, seguido por otro casi completamente
carente de vello.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Me pregunto qué
tiene todo esto que decir acerca de la imagen popular de la belleza femenina …
pero eso es otro blog.) Pues lamento decir que no dio en el blanco.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Parece que tengo más cabello, digo, no
de manera fea, pero en definitivo <span style="text-transform: uppercase;">más</span>.
Todavía me estoy acostumbrando.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yo
soy totalmente a favor de mucho cabello en la cabeza, así que no me quejo.</div>
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Obviamente sobre la relación entre
el arte y la dependencia química se ha escrito montones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>La muerte por heroína de Philip Seymour
Hoffman hace unos meses sacó a la luz muchos comentarios acerca de cómo los
sensibles entre nosotros son particularmente vulnerables a problemas de
adicción.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Y hubo los inevitables
comentarios sobre para esas personas, cuando son artistas, la dependencia
incluso podría ser una suerte de precondición necesaria para su trabajo.</div>
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Yo tengo un considerable problema
con estas ideas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Por un lado,
representa un espantoso estereotipismo acerca del artista: una verdadera
porquería romanticizada. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>¡Lo peor
es cuando los jóvenes artistas lo creen! </div>
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Y en realidad, simplemente no es el
caso: veamos todos los músicos –por mencionar sólo una categoría—que terminaron
sus relaciones abusivas con el alcohol y otros drogas y siguieron adelante para
tener espléndidas carreras.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No
perdieron ni una iota de su pasión o su potencia musicales, y seguramente
agregaron años a sus vidas tanto creativas como físicas.</div>
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Como se puede imaginar, yo pensé
bastante en todo esto, antes de dejar de fumar. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Y después. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Si
hubiera algo que me preocupaba fue precisamente eso: ¿hasta qué grado el tabaco
estaba enganchado a mi vida como músico? Cuántes veces recordé cómo de un día
al otro abandoné el cenicero con su humeante cigarro, al lado del piano en su
mesita especial, pocas semanas después de que empecé a trabajar con
Lettvin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nadie –¡y menos yo!—pretendía
que yo dejara de fumar … pero de repente se convirtió en una distracción.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No solamente no fue necesario, fue una
molestia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pensé en esto como aún
otro modelo, sin estar segura de cómo entraría en juego pero bastante segura de
que sí entraría, ya sea de manera literal o metafórica. Y por supuesto que sí:
el cigarro había empezado a poner trabas en mi camino más que me estaba
complaciendo; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ergo</i>, era una
molestia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hora de que yo me
marchara.</div>
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La amiga que dejó el tabaco cuando
estaba fumando hasta 60 cigarros diarios me dijo, antes de que yo lo dejé, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mira, no tiene que ver con el cigarro como
tal, tiene que ver con tu <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">relación </b>con
el cigarro – es mucho más acerca de ti que del cigarro.</i></div>
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Nunca me he arrepentido de esta
decisión, ni siquiera por un momento.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Al contrario: sigo sintiéndome profundamente agradecida que mi salida de
esa relación con el tabaco –tan gratificante y placentera durante tantos años—
resultó ser tan fácil, al final cuando la relación ya no era muy emocionante y
se había convertido en un lastre.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;">Nostalgie du tabac</span></i></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Ha habido y todavía hay lo que he llegado a pensar como <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;">nostalgie
du tabac</span></i> –quién sabe porqué lo pienso en francés, ¿será esos tipos
tan feo-guapos y tan extraordinariamente <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sexy</i>,
todos con el cigarro colgado de sus labios tan apetecientes?—en todo caso:
nostalgia por el tabaco. En definitivo no es nostalgia para fumar el tabaco:
tengo cero ganas de fumar. Más bien, es nostalgia por cómo me sentí en ciertos
momentos cuando fumaba. Interesante que casi todos esos momentos tienen que ver
con estar sola, con apartarme de la muchedumbre.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Todavía hay bastante aquí que examinar.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Se cumplió mi deseo. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></b>Tres o cuatro veces he tenido
momentos en que me di cuenta, incrédula, que casi quisiera que tuviera ganas de
fumar – me hace reír.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Después de
la última vez que esto pasó –en marzo, hace un mes aproximadamente— entendí: NO
quererlo es lo que tan apasionadamente había deseado, hace casi siete
años.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Se cumplió mi deseo.</div>
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De cuando en cuando, durante estos
pasados veinte-tantos años, me he dado cuenta: todas las cosas que en realidad
he deseado, he recibido.</div>
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Vale, la parte del peso.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Si has leído los anteriores <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">posting</i>, sabes que yo tenía una visión
de mí misma parecida a mi tocaya Ana Guevara, dentro de seis meses después de
fumar ese último cigarro.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Esto no
ha sucedido.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>De hecho, hay unos
cinco kilos innecesarios en el área de mi cintura que antes no estaban. Oscilo
entre rabia por los kilos y deleite –sí, todavía— por el delicioso sabor que
tiene la comida –y eso que yo siempre tenía un paladar bastante fino aún como
fumadora. También hay una suerte de boba alegría acerca de casi todo, me
supongo que primordialmente por estar viva y consciente. </div>
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La gente tampoco sabe qué pensar de
esto, al menos algunas personas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Por un lado, por todo un haz de razones santurronas, tienen que estar
muy felices que Ana Dejó el Chingarro.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Por otro lado, ¿les da gusto verme Un Tantito Rechoncha? ¿Qué le pasa a
la Q, por dios? </div>
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Pero no puedo dar
explicaciones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Me supongo que he
decidido –recurriendo al modelo de que parece que he logrado las cosas que en
realidad he deseado—que en cierto momento el equilibrio se volverá a
establecer, resultado de un misterioso giroscopio cuyo instructivo no tengo y
sólo puedo intuir.</div>
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Parece que todavía no estoy lista
para el Regimen Macrobiótico de Madonna.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Buenoooo … quizás si hubiera un chef particularmente simpático que me lo
cocinara … nunca digo nunca.</div>
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Mientras tanto, como siempre cuando
estoy aquí, salgo todas las mañanas a caminar o a correr con mis dos
maravillosas compañeras Azabacha y Estrella.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Desde principios de abril, después de la profunda fatiga
post-parto de <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Monarca</i></b>, por fin empiezo a establecer un buen ritmo de trabajo
al piano. Curiosamente, tomado de la mano con esto piano se reestablece mi
trabajo de alfombra, una mezcla de Pilates, Somática, yoga y quién sabe qué
más.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Así que --¿quién sabe?—tal
vez el giroscopio ahora se activa.</div>
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Importantísimo entender: dejar el
tabaco es un golpe metabólico de proporciones titánicas. Si hubieras tomado, al
levantarte, un juguito de naranja cada mañana durante muchos años, y de repente
no lo hicieras, tu cuerpo lo sentiría.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Probablemente dejar el tabaco es un poco más complejo que este ejemplo,
pero te da idea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Me late que hay algo
de investigación sobre este aspecto pero muy honestamente, entre la grabación
de los dos discos <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Monarca</i></b> y toda la acompañante locura no tuve ni tiempo ni
energía mental para darle el necesario seguimiento.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Una suerte de inocencia.</i></b> Olfateo
el perfume de un cigarro recién encendido y me huele absolutamente
delicioso.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pero no me da ningún
deseo de fumar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Esto para mí es un
fenómeno absolutamente asombroso y deleitoso. Es una suerte de placer inocente
que imagino ser como ser niña, olfateando el cigarro de mi papá –o igual mi
mamá, los dos fumaban— y gustando de ese perfume sin ganas de algo más.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Curiosidad.</span></i></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Como en tantos otros momentos, la curiosidad fue un ímpetu que me generó enorme energía.</div>
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Por ejemplo: toqué mi primer
concierto libre de tabaco exactamente un mes después de fumar ese último
cigarro, y fue algo bastante chido.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>No tenía ni idea de cómo se sentiría y lo más chido de todo es que estuvo
completamente bien.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fue una grata
sorpresa que no se sintió nada diferente. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>De hecho, concentración y energía tantito mejor -- ¿será por
tener más oxígeno en cuerpo y mente?</div>
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Otro ejemplo: cuando fui a EU para
las presentaciones <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Monarca</i></b> en DC y NYC, fue la primera vez que había estado en DC
como no-fumadora desde mi adolescencia … y la primera vez en NYC.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aquí también me preguntaba cómo
sería.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Por un lado, ¡¡SORPRESA!!
En realidad no se sentía muy distinto.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Por otro lado, para mí fue un asombroso hito histórico en mi vida.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hazlo por tus propias razones.</i></b>
Al mero final de ese curso Allen Carr con sus seis horas y media, la terapeuta
dijo, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Esto es algo trillado pero
terriblemente importante. Siempre leemos que hay que hacer las cosas para
nosotros mismos: la meditación, la relajación, una caminata en el bosque, las
vacaciones, lo que sea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Esto es
igual pero en otro sentido: es absolutamente esencial que cada uno de ustedes
deje el cigarro por sus propias razones. Escríbelas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pon una copia en el refri, en la cartera o la bolsa de mano,
otra al lado de la cama, otra en el coche –dondequiera que creas que sea
necesario.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Todas las personas en
tu alrededor tendrán una larga lista de razones para que tú dejes de
fumar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seguramente son muy válidas
pero no son TUS razones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No lo
hagas por sus razones, hazlo por las tuyas.” </i></div>
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Imposible exagerar lo importante y
maravilloso que fue este consejo para mí.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Conforme que pasaron las semanas y los meses después de ese último
cigarro –fumado con goce pero también, sea dicha la verdad, casi con aburrimiento,
anticipando mi pronta libertad— entendería vez con vez lo atinadísimo que es
este consejo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>¡Es cierto! Todas
las personas en mi alrededor tenían una larga lista de razones porque sería
bueno para mí dejar de fumar. Estoy segura que todas, TODAS fueron válidas,
persuasivas, buenas, lo que sea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Pero a la postre estas razones –como me supongo sucede a cada rato en
estas situaciones—tenían mil veces más que ver con esas personas que conmigo.</div>
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Y mis razones ¿qué fueron? Si has
leído los anteriores capítulos en esta pequeña crónica sabrás algunas. Al
final, la razón central es:</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Era hora de irme.</b></div>
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¿Qué llevo conmigo ahora, un año
después de marcharme de esa relación?</div>
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Creo que es esto: </div>
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Lo primordial, cada vez más, es que
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">La Parte de la Alegría es a Mí. </b></div>
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Segundo: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">la Elección y las Razones son Mías</b>. No tan extraño, me supongo, que
esas también fueron las lecciones centrales de otras salidas, otras partidas,
otras evoluciones en mi vida. ¡Lo mejor es todavía por venir!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">2013-09-21_LA MUERTE DE UN
PERRO, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; text-transform: uppercase;">The Death of a Dog</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; text-transform: uppercase;">T</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">oday in the afternoon it fell to me to help put
to sleep a badly abused dog. A young dog, I believe, but terribly mistreated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was on the kerb just to the side of
my <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">acceso</i> to the Panorámica.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I’d seen him before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Yesterday, to be exact, Friday 20, on my morning walk with Azabacha and
Estrella.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was curled up in a
corner of a semi-abandoned piece of land –except I know that it belongs to
someone— which is to one side of J*** and G***’s house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Curled up and looking in very bad
shape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On his tail or one of his
hind paws –hard to tell which-- I glimpse the bright red of an open wound.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s completely curled up on himself,
the way a dog curls up when he’s cold – although that morning it wasn’t at all
chilly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Skin and bones, poor
thing, his head looking even more massive because the rest of him is so
malnourished.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And his eyes look
tired and defeated.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On this piece of semi-empty land is a small clan of dogs from which a
friend, R***, adopted a puppy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>These dogs are territorial but not aggressive, and it seems they’ve left
this poor badly-wounded visitor-dog a little space in which to heal up, or
maybe to die; at least to rest for a while.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Disgracefully, I did nothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I thought about who I could call, how I could get him to where he might
be taken, what friend with a car could I call … would he snap at me? I’d need
something to cover his head— and in the end, there was something else I had to
attend to and it went out of my mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Until around 4:10pm the next day, that is today, when I arrived laden
with wine from the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">gringo-style</i>
supermarket, to find R***, my neighbour E*** and her fiancé N***, a young woman
and a young man … and the dog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All
there on the Panorámica right outside my <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">acceso</i>.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">He is completely black, this dog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Skin and bones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I saw
him yesterday he was less exposed than he is now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It breaks your heart, how thin he is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now I can see that his ears have been
trimmed as they do to the ears of fighting dogs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are not well-healed and are covered with dried blood
and a bunch of flies who seem to have taken up residence there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The wound which yesterday I thought was
on his hind leg I can now see is on his haunch, and badly infected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He looks a bit like a pit-bull but there
is something in his skull which looks like Lab or even Great Dane, something
massive and almost rectangular.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The worst thing about this dog are his eyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this middle of this enormous face, with its square jaw
and mutilated ears, those eyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Liquid, coffee-brown, they look almost extinguished.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>R*** comments that yesterday he brought
the dog water and dried food but the dog had no desire to eat or to drink.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Somehow, and who knows why, he made his
way to precisely this spot, the entrance to my house from the Panorámica.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I believe that this dog, barely more than a puppy –he can’t be more than
ten months old— was used to train the fight dogs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As N*** says, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">so they
get to know the taste of blood</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Again I am nauseated by this custom, so deeply ingrained in certain economic
strata in this part of México.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
know it goes on Right Here, because I’ve seen these dogs being raised by my
neighbours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although they swear by
their mothers that they’re not, I know perfectly well that they are, and I know
that they are probably making a decent amount of money selling the puppies
produced by the black female pit-bull who seems to be in a constant state of
either pregnancy or lactation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is
it possible that this poor dog is a product of their “training sessions”?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">So it turns out that the two young people came because R***, bless him,
called a vet and that doctor sent them, with the material necessary to put the
dog to sleep if that was what we decided.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So now, it’s clear: it’s up to us to decide whether to rescue or
euthanise.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The young woman is extremely thin, with a face like a flame.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Very serious, very rigorous.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She reminds me a bit of my niece C***.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So much commitment, so much
dedication.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have that same sense
of pride as I have <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>had with C***
so many times.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">E***, who works as a volunteer with Corazón Canino –an animal-rescue
association—is hesitating: she say that they’ve rescued dogs in worse shape …
but it’s a risky situation when they are so badly injured.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It seems that everyone is hesitating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The young vets-in-training look at us –they look at me— in
the eyes, and say that it is Our Decision.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I realize that it seems as though everyone is looking at me
as though it is MY decision. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I think.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I consult my
intuition. I try to feel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More
than anything, I look at the eyes of the dog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I sense that the dog wants to go now, that he no longer has
fierceness or life-force; I feel as though with his eyes he is entrusting his
last moments to us, that he wants to go now, and that if we can help him along,
well so be it. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I try to keep my voice steady but it breaks anyway, and with it breaking
I say, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Well, let him suffer no more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think he has no more will to
live.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s put him to sleep, let
him suffer no more.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I was going to give him a biscuit, one of those I make for Azabacha and
Estrella, but they say no, he probably would throw it up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>OK, no biscuit.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">E*** says, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I can’t watch, I’m
sorry, I’m going</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I say, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I’ll stay, don’t worry, I’ll keep him
company</i>.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Why?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who knows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thinking about it later I said in
answer to my own question, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">IT’S NOT FAIR,
this dog who maybe no one ever petted in his poor fucking short life, it’s not
fair that he should exit this life without anyone petting him and comforting
him and keeping him company; it’s the least I can do and what does it cost me,
for crying out loud?</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">So I stayed there, caressing the massive head of this dog, massive in
spite of his terrible thinness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
still makes me weep, the memory of those eyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They put a cloth over his head for a moment, I and the young
woman vet-in-training held him; for a moment he panicked and tried to get up
but he no longer had the strength.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The young man gave him the tranquilizer shot in a hind leg and she and I
held him up, seated, until the front left leg started to tremble and then we
helped him to lie down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I the
whole time giving him a little massage on the bridge of the nose, where
supposedly dogs have this acupressure point which calms them down; and the
almost-vet stroking his neck.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And once he was calm, the other injection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This one in the vein of a front leg.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Between the dehydration and the
malnutrition it took the young woman quite a while to find the vein; and even
when she found it, it was difficult to inject.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She had to ask her co-worker for help.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It took a while for him to stop breathing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">De rigueur</i>, to
check heart and respiration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still
no.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But then yes: no heart, no
respiration, nothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No response
when checking the eye.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The young woman vet-in-training makes a small sign of the cross over his
nose. I am still weeping and realize that I will not be able to control my
voice if I speak.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I think about how Estrella almost died two years ago and cry some
more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now I see them both,
Estrella and Azabacha, waiting for me behind the gate; and I feel a wave of
gratitude for having these two companions in my life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s very easy to fall into Hallmark-type sentiments in
these moments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But that is exactly
how I felt and how I feel: profoundly grateful to have these two companions in
my life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is the first time I
have ever had a dog and now I cannot imagine life without a dog.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">N*** has brought a large black plastic bag.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And that’s it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We edge his poor starved body into the bag.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The two men take it to the garbage container.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They return.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Two other neighbours come to comment on the situation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am still openly weeping, aware that
it’s not just the death of this dog that I’m mourning and with no interest at
all in disguising it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">We stay there for a while, talking as I suppose we need to do after a
death: I mean, after the death of any being, a human, a canine, whatever.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And my two companions Azabacha –the black dog—and Estrella –the blonde
dog—are still there, behind the iron-work door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Azabacha arrived first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now she is whining or crying very quietly, a bit perplexed:
she knows something is happening, that I am upset, she can hear that my speech
is strange because I’m crying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Then came Estrella.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
they are, the two of them, patiently awaiting me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can they smell the death of the other dog?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t know, but I suspect they
can.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the very least they know
something serious has happened.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Once it is all done, I go back to my house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All I want to do is be with the piano.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First the Sarabande of the 3<sup>rd</sup>
Partitura of JSB, with which I’ve been spending some time these days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then the last part of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Creación
de las Aves / Creation of the Birds</i></b>, Anne LeBaron’s <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Monarca
</i></b>piece, homage to Remedios Varo. Perhaps because it is so connected to
life, to creation: an antidote?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There was a moment in which I could recognise and say, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Jesus!, I don’t want to play or listen to or
even THINK ABOUT these pieces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>So
complete was the fatigue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then I
realize that this is totally normal, I spent such an intense time with this
music that now it is IMPERATIVE to rest from it: mind, ears, and soul.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">No man is an
island</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">, says John Donne’s sonnet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And no event is an island either.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The death of this dog with his sad, resigned coffee-brown eyes is
connected to the death of my relationship with tobacco, with the inevitable
death of this phase of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Monarca </i></b>so that the next metamorphosis
may begin; and with who knows how many other little deaths right now. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In the garden, some plants die and the seeds
of others germinate.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">At the piano, at the end I play the third
Impromptu Op 90 of our dear Franz Schubert, who also died young.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And I think, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It’s not sad that the dog died.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Because death, in the end, meant an end to his suffering.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What’s sad is what brought him to such
an end, that death in the end was the only solution to his suffering.</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There are still moments when I want to howl
with misery and rage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But almost
in the same moment I am grateful to be alive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">2013-09-21_LA MUERTE DE UN
PERRO</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Hoy en la tarde me tocó
ayudar a dormir a un perro maltratado.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Joven, creo, pero horriblemente maltratado.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Estaba sobre la banqueta justo a un lado de mi acceso desde
la Panorámica.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Lo había visto antes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ayer, de ser preciso, o sea el viernes
20, en la caminata matutina con Azabacha y Estrella.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Estuvo enroscado en un rincón de un terreno medio baldío –
sé que pertenece a alguien— a un costado de la casa de J y G.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Enroscado y viéndose muy
malherido.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vislumbré por su cola o
por una pata trasera el </span><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;">rojo cardenal de </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">una
herida abierta.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Está completamente
enroscado, como se pone un perro que tiene frío, aunque la mañana no es nada
fresca.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Está en los puros huesos,
pobrecito: la cabeza se ve más masiva por lo flaco que es el cuerpo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">En ese terreno medio
baldío hay un clan de perros de que un amigo, R***, adoptó un cachorro.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Son territoriales pero no
agresivos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Parece que han dejado a
este pobre malherido un lugarcito para sanarse, o quizás morir; al menos
descansar un ratito.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Desgraciadamente, no hice
nada.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pensé en a quién hablar,
cómo llevarlo, si en un taxi, o hablar a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>qué amigo con coche … y en los hechos hubo otra cosa a que atender
y se me fue de la mente.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hasta
tipo 16:10h el día después, hoy, cuando llego cargada de vino del súper <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">gringo-style</i>; a encontrar a R***, a mi
vecina E***, a su prometido y a dos jóvenes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Y el perro.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Todos allí sobre la Panorámica afuera de mi acceso.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Es completamente negro,
este perro.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Y en los puros
huesos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cuando lo vi ayer no estaba
tan expuesto como ahora. Te parte el corazón lo flaco que es.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ahora puedo ver que tiene las orejas
cortadas como hacen a los perros de pelea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No están bien cicatrizadas y están cubiertas de sangre
resecada y unas moscas se han alojado allí.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ahora puedo ver que la herida de atrás es en la nalga: infectada
y mal, mal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>El perro tiene aspecto
de <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">pit-bull</i> pero algo hay en el
cráneo de Labrador o casi de Gran Danés, algo masivo, casi rectangular.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Lo más terrible de este
perro son sus ojos. En medio de esa cara enorme, con su mandíbula cuadrada y
sus orejas mutiladas, esos ojos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Líquidos, color café, se ven casi apagados.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dice R*** que ayer le trajo agua y croquetas pero que no
quiso ni comer ni beber.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Quién
sabe cómo o porqué, este perro malherido y famélico procuró llegar a este
lugar: la entrada a mi casa desde la Panorámica.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Yo creo que este perro,
apenas crecido más allá de cachorro, lo usaron para entrenar a los perros de
pelea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Como comentó el <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">gringo</i> prometido de E***, para que
conozcan el sabor de la sangre, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">so they get
to know the taste of blood</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>De
nuevo me llena de asco esta costumbre, de tanto arraigo en esta parte de
México, que yo sé a ciencia cierta –porque he visto a los perros— practican mis
vecinos, aunque juren por<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>su madre
que no.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>¿Será que este pobrecito
es producto de sus sesiones de entrenamiento? ¡Qué rabia me da!</span></div>
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Resulta que los dos jóvenes vinieron porque R***, bendito sea,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>habló a un veterinario y ese doctor les
mandó, con lo necesario para dormirle al perro si así fuese la decisión.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Entonces, se pone claro: es a nosotros
decidir si toca rescatar o dormir.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">La joven es extremadamente
delgada y su cara es como una flama.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Mucha seriedad, mucho rigor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Algo me recuerda a mi sobrina C***, tanto compromiso, tanto apego.
Pienso que, igual como mi sobrina, me da mucho orgullo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">E***, que también trabaja
como voluntaria con Corazón Canino --una A.C. de rescate de animales—está
titubeando: dice que han rescatado a peores … pero que es un riesgo cuando
están tan malheridos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Parece que todos están
titubeando.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Los jóvenes veterinarios-en-capacitación
nos ven –me ven a mí—a los ojos y dicen que es decisión de nosotros.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Me doy cuenta de que –al parecer- todos
me están viendo como si fuese MI DECISIÓN.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Pienso.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Consulto mi intuición.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Intento sentir.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Más que nada, veo los ojos del perro. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>De alguna manera siento que el perro ya
quiere irse, que ya no le queda ni fiereza ni fuerza vital. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Siento que el perro nos está confiando
sus últimos momentos, que ya no puede y si nosotros lo pudiéramos ayudar a que
se vaya, pues que así sea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Intentando mantener firme
a mi tono pero con la voz entrecortada digo, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pues que no sufra más.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Creo que ya no tiene voluntad de vivir.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Durmámoslo. Que no sufra más.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Le iba a dar una galleta
de esas que hago para las mías y de que siempre tengo<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>conmigo pero me alertan de que lo podría vomitar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, entonces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Dice E***, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">No puedo ver, no puedo; me voy</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Digo, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Yo me quedo, no te preocupes, yo le acompaño.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">¿Porqué?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Quién sabe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pensándolo después digo, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pues
que no es justo, NO ES JUSTO, que ese perro a quien quizás nadie lo haya
acariciado en toda su pobre pinche <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>corta vida, no es justo que se vaya sufrido de esa vida sin
que alguien lo acaricie y lo acompañe; no es justo; es lo mínimo que se puede
hacer, ¿y qué me cuesta, caramba?</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Así que yo me quedé
acariciando la cabeza de este perro, masiva pese a su terrible flaqueza.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aún ahora me hace llorar la memoria de
esos ojos. Pusieron momentáneamente una tela sobre su cabeza, yo y la
veterinaria-en-capacitación lo sujetamos; durante un momento intentó
incorporarse y protestar pero no tenía fuerzas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Le dieron el tranquilizante y ella y yo la sosteníamos,
sentado, hasta que la pata delantera izquierda le empezó a temblar y luego lo
ayudamos a que se acostara.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yo
todo el tiempo dándole masaje por la nariz, donde supuestamente hay ese punto
de <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">acupresión</i> canina que les
tranquiliza; y la casi-veterinaria por su nuca.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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tranquilo, la otra inyección.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ésta
va en la vena, de una pata delantera.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Entre deshidratación y malnutrición cuesta mucho trabajo encontrar la
vena; y cuando lo localiza, inyectar fue difícil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tuvo que pedir ayuda a su compañero. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Tardó un rato un dejar de
respirar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">De rigueur</i>, revisaron corazón y respiración.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tarda.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pero al rato sí: ni respiración ni corazón ni nada.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nada de respuesta del ojo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">La
veterinaria-en-capacitación hace una suerte de signo de cruz sobre su nariz. Yo
todavía llorando calladamente, y siento que no podré controlar mi voz si
intentara hablar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Pienso en cómo casi se
murió Estrella hace dos años y vuelvo a llorar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ahora veo las dos, Estrella y Azabacha, esperándome tras la
reja de mi puerta y siento una ola de gratitud por tener a esas dos compañeras
en mi vida.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tan fácil caer
en lo cursi en estos momentos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Pero es precisamente así que me sentí y me siento: profundamente
agradecida por tener estas dos compañeras en mi vida.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Es la primera vez que tengo un perro y ahora me resulta de
plano imposible imaginarme la vida sin un perro.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">N***, el prometido de
E***, había traído una bolsa de plástico.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Y así. Allí echamos su pobre flaco cuerpo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Los dos hombres lo llevan a la tolva de basura; regresan. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Vinieron dos otros vecinos
para comentar esta situación.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yo
abiertamente<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>llorando, consciente
de que no es sólo la muerte de este perro que estoy llorando pero ya con ni el
más mínimo interés en disfrazarlo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Quedamos un poco todos,
platicando como supongo que necesitamos hacer después de la muerte, digo,
después de la muerte de cualquier ser: humano, canino, lo que sea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Y allí siguen mis dos
compañeras Azabacha (la negra) y Estrella (la rubia) tras la reja de la
puerta.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Azabacha llegó
primero.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ahora está lloriqueando
tantito, muy callada, algo perpleja: sabe que algo está pasando, que yo estoy
desconcertada y hablando raro por el llanto.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Luego viene Estrella; allí están las dos pacientemente aguardándome.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>¿Pueden olfatear la muerte del otro
perro?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No sé, pero sospecho que
sí. Mínimo, saben que algo serio ha sucedido.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Hecho todo, yo vuelvo a
casa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Solo quiero ir al
piano.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Primero la <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sarabanda </i>de la 3ª Partitura de JSB, en
que he estado algo metida estos días.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Luego la última parte de <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Creación
de las Aves</i>, la pieza <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Monarca </i></b>de Anne LeBaron, homenaje a
Remedios Varo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>¿Quizás por ser muy
ligada a la vida, a la creación; un antídoto?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Hubo un momento en que pude
reconocer y decir <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">¡Caramba, no quiero ni
tocar ni escuchar ni siquiera PENSAR en estas piezas!</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Era tan completa la fatiga.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Luego me doy cuenta de que es totalmente
normal, llevé un tiempo tan intenso con esta música que ahora es imperativo
descansarme de ella: mente, oído y alma.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">No man is an island</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia;">, dice el soneto de John Donne.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ningún
hombre es una isla</i> (ni siquiera sé la traducción oficial al español y ahora
no tengo energía para buscarla); pero a donde voy es que tampoco ningún suceso
es una isla.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>La muerte de este
perro con sus tristes y resignados ojos café es ligada a la muerte de mi
relación con el tabaco, de la inevitable muerte de esta fase de <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Monarca
</i></b>para que pase a la siguiente metamorfosis; a quién sabe cuántas otras
cosas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">En el jardín mueren
algunas plantas y germinan las semillas de otras. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Al piano, toqué por último
el tercer <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Impromptu</i> Op 90 de nuestro
queridísimo Franz Schubert … quien también se murió muy joven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Pensé, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">No es triste que se murió, ese perro.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Porque la muerte le alivianó de todo su
sufrimiento.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lo triste es lo que
lo llevó a tamaño trance, que la muerte, en efecto, fue la única solución a su
sufrimiento.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Todavía hay momentos en
que quiero aullar de la miseria y la rabia. Pero casi al mismo momento doy las
gracias por estar viva.</span></div>
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Ana Cervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09378653918304616448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1830541354533635072.post-85936921022228251242013-07-30T22:13:00.000-07:002013-07-30T22:13:21.182-07:00RECORDING MONARCA 2-JULY 2013
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It is dark, it is mysterious; it is filled with fury, it is filled with
light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are moments like
birdsong –a memory from her childhood? I can’t help thinking of Mónica Lavín’s
lyrical descriptions of the grandfather’s library;- there are moments of tenderness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Indicated that way in the score: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">con ternura</i>, with tenderness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Drama, movement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Restlessness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My mind which so loves a story feels that this is her
restless curiosity, her endlessly seeking mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am talking about Sor Juana’s mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is the muse of Pilar Jurado’s work <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Primero Sueño</i>, the first piece on the
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">All through learning and preparing and memorising Jurado’s piece since
mid-2010 (yikes!), off and on I would be struck by how operatic it is; I would
think about characters both physical and metaphorical, think about how that
meant the music must be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
annotated my score in terms of the organization of an opera: Overture, Act I,
Act II, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometime in May of
this year I wrote on a post-it in the score, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Might it be that this entire
piece is the Overture to an opera which has yet to be written?”</i></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I believe it is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe that
is why it works so magnificently as the first piece of this second <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Monarca</i></b>
disc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is an Overture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In one way or another it prefigures almost
every other piece on this recording.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It is followed by Wallach’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lágrimas
y Locuras: Mapping the Mind of a Madwoman</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The piece, in effect a Fantasy on the Mexican folktune <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">La Llorona</i>, staggers along, raving and stumbling
on the edge of disaster.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I realized
that I must be willing to dance on the precipice when I play it, there’s no
being safe with this piece: the minute I do it’s Sleepy-time. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The composer is emphatic that she does not
seek to tell the story of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">La llorona</i>,
but rather to explore the emotional landscape of this woman “at war with<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>her own history” who wanders eternally
along the rivers of all Mexico, searching for her lost, drowned children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not much light here, in spite of the
pianistic brilliance of the piece, and in spite of the beautiful and –here in
Mexico- universally-known melody. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The memory of happiness, or of its illusion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fury, indeed; and the loneliness with which
it goes hand in hand.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">That fury finds an echo in certain parts of McNeff’s extraordinary <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Evening with doña Eduviges (una Fantasia)</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a far more complex woman than
the one of whom McNeff<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>paints a
portrait in the gorgeous <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pavane (in the
old way) for doña Susanita </i>which he composed for <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rumor de Páramo</i></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is capable of anger –and indeed,
there are moments of crazy brutality in this piece, fury here too, out of
control. At the same time, like every human I suppose, she longs for the warmth
of the sun, for love and for beauty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She is quite willing to accept cheap substitutes --that drop-dead
gorgeous melody to which McNeff give the indication “cheaply” … oh Cervantes,
here is where you have to be a real Interpreter-- ; so I decided that the first
time I would play it almost Liberace-style, very manneristic and overdone, like
cheap perfume.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the second time,
when it returns almost at the very end – what then?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, here is where <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for just a moment we glimpse her true and unarmoured heart;
here it’s no longer meretricious but utterly open.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A couple of measures to make you weep for everything that’s
been lost or denied, to all people everywhere.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And then YES, the palate-cleanser: Georgina Derbez’ piece whose muse is,
I confess with due modesty but great honour, Ana Cervantes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Direct and urgent as an arrow, it calls
us up into the heavens. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It clears
away the rage, it clears away the memories of brutality and silence, lies and
loss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Lavista … what do I say?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This piece GLISTENS, it turns slowly in
the light and --like all of Lavista’s music-- lures our ears and our
imagination ineluctably into its world. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I feel that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mujer pintando …</i> is far more complex in terms of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">affekt</i> than <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Páramos de Rulfo </i>which Lavista wrote for <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rumor</i></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Its muse is Joy Laville, the British
painter who has lived for years in Mexico and is the widow of the great Mexican
writer Jorge Ibargüengoitia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The piece for me has a Byzantine
opulence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I say Byzantine not in
the sense of unnecessary complications but rather to evoke something which
springs from more than one world, as in something from both East and West, for
example.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are moments in
which to my ears it turns openly voluptuous, there are moments in which it has
all the determination and boldness of those intrepid late-19<sup>th</sup>-century
English adventurer-women who, disguised as men and risking death, penetrated
the sacred and men-only city of Mecca .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I suppose it’s important to know that I
received this piece on 20 June, when I was three days away from the end of that
little tour in my home state of Guanajuato.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had very little
time and energy for entering into the whole new world which is learning a piece
by Mario Lavista.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have said for
some years that the creative process is not like going to the corner store for
a quart of milk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This time my
conviction was tested to the limits. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I left it open.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Various people said I had every right to not record it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The composer himself left it open.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But JIMINY, this is Mario Lavista, one
of our greatest living composers, who has done me the honour of composing not
one but TWO pieces for my commissioning projects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How could I not find a way to record this piece?!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Hard to believe that we did all of this in
slightly more than one week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>But we did.</u></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Several people said to me, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">But that’s so little time!</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I suppose so … but it’s important to
remember three things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First, I
arrived ready to record.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hard to
pin this down exactly, but I felt that I arrived ready to record not only
musically and technically but also spiritually and emotionally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Does that sound really pyramids-and-crystals? … but that is how it was.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Second, I and audio engineer Roberto de Elías
plus Second Engineer Kenji Calderón understand each other very well and have
what I can only describe as a superb working relationship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have total confidence in their ears
and in their technical ability.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Third, having a magnificent concert instrument
on which to record – and a magnificent piano technician on call for tuning
touch-ups and for voicing hammers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In both January and July I felt incredibly and totally supported as
regards the piano. <span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Thank you MAESTRO Alejandro
CUbillo, thank you Yamaha México</span>!! </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">I want to
mention again something I said here in January:</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> this work of voicing hammers is something for which
no mechanical substitute will ever be found, EVER.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a joint effort between technician and pianist: a
miracle of ears, touch, and intense concentration on the part of both.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Monday the 8<sup>th</sup>, as you know, the
phenomenal Yamaha C7 arrived.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, we recorded, one by one, each of the
six other pieces of this second disc, starting with Wallach and finishing with
Ortiz.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">That Thursday, together with my fabulous
engineering team I made two decisions: </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">First, that on Friday and Saturday 2<sup>nd</sup>
Engineer Kenji and I would do all the editing for the pieces we’d recorded so
far; and second, that I’d come on Monday 15 to the studio and practice
Lavista.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I had energy after all
the editing on Saturday, I’d stay on and practice a bit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If not, I would study the piece away
from the piano on Sunday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I badly
wanted for us all to have Sunday to rest ears, mind, concentration, soul. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And so it was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By Saturday afternoon we’d finished all the edits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, of course, to nobody’s surprise, I
hadn’t the slightest energy to stay and practice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It would have been a slap in the face to that piece.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kenji gave me a ride, as always, to the
Coyoacán metro station.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On Sunday,
as I’d wished, we all rested.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
made a loin of pork cooked in orange juice and white wine with garlic and
finished at the very last minute with chunks of fresh mango.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>YUMMM, B*** and I enjoyed it with new
potatoes and salad and a lovely Argentinean Sauvignon Blanc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later, after the coffee, I spent some
time looking at the Lavista score.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Everything in me just wanted to look and think, listen inside me and
think about sound and gesture and rhythm, make a map of architecture and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">affekt</i>s.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Monday I went and practiced, the first time
I’d been alone in the studio.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So
lovely, a good four hours there just with that piece. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Very restorative, I think as I go out
for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">comida</i> at the Sushi Itto, to go
back to that disciplined, elemental process of getting inside a piece. I wrote
in my notebook,</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">What a pleasure to
practice, really practice, as one practices when entering the space of a new
piece! Today it’s as though I’d rested for days on end instead of just
yesterday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I feel that I’m seeing
tons of things and I am falling totally in love with this piece.</span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">So Tuesday we did it. We recorded <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mujer pintando en cuarto azul (Woman
Painting in a Blue Room)</i>, of Mario Lavista. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not what it will be in six months and it is not perfect
(as though anyone really cared about that). But I believe I communicate --with
the help of that wonderful Yamaha C7-- the opulence and the gleam or the top,
the velvet of the bass; most of the sonic, gestural, and rhythmic qualities
which I wanted to make real.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I
think I did a reasonable job of the architecture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A lot of different spaces in that piece!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And I recorded Uribe again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was like dessert after the long rich
meal of recording.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Those of you who read this Blog back in
January when I finished recording the first disc will remember how sure I was
about the order … well, this is why we often need to take time and listen, and
reflect, and feel, and listen again. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So it was that sometime in mid-March, after listening to the
pre-master of the first disc a number of times just me and also with people
whose ears I enormously respect, I decided that it should open with Horacio
Uribe’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">El viaje nocturno de
Quetzalpapálotl / The Night Voyage of Quetzalpapálotl</i>.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I am listening to the master of this disc as I
write and I am realizing: after that arrow-straight piece of Derbez, there is
no more pain shut away and silenced, there is no more fury.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How is it that all that gets left
behind?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it does.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Now all that is left is patience, ecstasy,
energy, and joy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Anne LeBaron chose Remedios Varo for her muse;
and in particular, Varo's painting <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Creación
de las Aves (Creation of the Birds)</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For me this piece says it all about the essential tension between that
rhapsodic moment of ideation and imagination; and the discipline and patience
required to make the idea real. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In her note on the piece, LeBaron says <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The origin of life is … transformed … into a warm</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Noteworthy Light";">-</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">blooded
miracle, a song taking flight.”</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This piece also has –for me-
moments<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of absolutely earthy hip-revolving
voluptuousness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And also
humour:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am quite positive that
there are two measures which refer specifically to the Creation of the Pelican!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And we
end with Gabriela Ortiz’ Preludio y Estudio No 3 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Jesusa Palancares</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Prelude is the early-morning mist on the Isthmus of Tehuántepec, shot through
with brief gleams of sunlight; the Study is the indomitable energy of this
woman. It is, at moments, coquettish or playful, it has delicacy and also sensuality,
but more than anything else it is irruptive, volcanic, triumphant.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
that is how we end, after so much patience: with ecstasy and energy.
Triumphant!!</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></div>
Ana Cervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09378653918304616448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1830541354533635072.post-1972590223121315972013-07-30T22:05:00.000-07:002013-07-30T22:13:37.343-07:00GRABANDO MONARCA_JULIO 2013: EL SEGUNDO DISCO<style>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Es tenebrosa, es misteriosa;
es llena de furia y llena de luz.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Hay momentos como canto de pájaros --¿una memoria de su niñez? no puedo
de menos recordar la lírica descripción que hace Mónica Lavín de la biblioteca
del abuelo—; hay momentos de ternura. Así señalados en la partitura: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">con ternura</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Drama, movimiento.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Inquietud.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yo<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>que siempre busco una historia, siento
que esta desasosiego es su curiosidad inquieta, su mente en una búsqueda
inacabable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hablo de la mente de
Sor Juana.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ella es la musa de <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Primero Sueño</i>, la pieza de Pilar Jurado
y la primera pieza en este segundo disco de <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Monarca</i></b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Durante
todo ese tiempo de aprender y preparar y memorizar esta obra de Jurado, desde
mediados del 2010 (¡caramba!), cada cuando pensaba en lo operística que es:
pensaba en personajes físicos y metafóricos, pensaba en lo que esto implicaba para
la música. Anotaba mi partitura en términos de la organización de una ópera:
Obertura, Acto I, Acto II, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>En
algún momento en mayo del 2013, garabateé sobre mi partitura, “Será que esta
pieza entera es la Obertura a una ópera que todavía no se escribe?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Yo
creo que sí.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yo creo que es por
eso que funciona tan perfectamente como la primera pieza de este segundo disco
de <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Monarca</i></b>.
Sí que es una Obertura: de alguna manera –y sin la menor intención de hacer
esto- prefigura casi todas las demás obras en el álbum.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Le
sigue <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lágrimas y Locuras: Mapping the
Mind of a Madwoman</i> de Wallach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>La pieza corre y tambalea, despotricando y tropezando a la mera orilla
del desastre.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Me di cuenta que
tengo que estar dispuesta a hacer eso cuando la toco, tambalear a orillas del
precipicio: de nada sirve tocar con cuidado aquí, cuando lo hago vamos de
inmediato a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dormilandia</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">La
compositora hace mucho hincapié en que de ninguna manera se propone contar la
historia de <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">La llorona</i>,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>más bien busca retratar el paisaje
emocional de esta mujer <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“en guerra con su
propio pasado”</i> quien divaga interminablemente al borde de todos los ríos de
México, buscando sus hijos perdidos y ahogados.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Poca
luz aquí, pese a la brilliantez pianística de la pieza, pese al bello y
conocido tema. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>La memoria de
una felicidad, o de su ilusión.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Furia, de veras; y la soledad con que va tomada de la mano.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Esa
furia encuentra su eco en ciertos momentos de la pieza de McNeff <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">An Evening with doña Eduviges: a Fantasy /
Una velada con doña Eduviges: una fantasía</i>. Esta mujer es mil veces más
compleja que Susana San Juan, a quien McNeff retrató para <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rumor de Páramo</i></b> en su
hermosa <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pavana (a la usanza antigua) para
doña Susanita</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Es capaz de
rabia –y de hecho hay momentos de una loca brutalidad, furia aquí también, casi
fuera de control.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Al mismo tiempo,
me supongo que como cualquier ser humano, añora la calidez del sol, el cariño,
la belleza.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Está perfectamente
dispuesta a aceptar imitaciones: esa hermosísima melodía en que Stephen pone la
indicación <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“cheaply”</i> (baratamente) …
oh Cervantes, ahora sí tienes que ser una intérprete de a de veras … Así que
decidí que la primera vez lo tocaría casi <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">a
la Liberace</i>, muy amanerado y exagerado, como perfume barato. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pero la segunda vez, cuando vuelve casi
al final -- ahora es cuando vislumbramos –sólo un par de momentos- su verdadero
corazón, ahora sin pretensiones, completamente abierto.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Un par de momentos que te hacen llorar
por todo que se ha echado a perder y por todo que se ha denegado, por todas las
personas en todo el mundo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Y
entonces SÍ: el limpia-paladar. La pieza de Georgina Derbez cuya musa es, confieso
con la debida modestia pero con gran honor, vuestra servilleta Ana
Cervantes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Directa y urgente como
una flecha, nos llama al cielo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Barre
la rabia, barre las memorias de brutalidad y del silencio, de pérdidas y
mentiras.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Lavista
… ¿qué digo?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mujer pintando en un cuarto azul</i> reluce, torna lentamente en la luz
y –como toda la música de Lavista—<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>ineludiblemente atrae el oído y la imaginación adentro de su mundo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Siento
que esta pieza es mucho más compleja, en términos de <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">affekt</i>, que <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Páramos de Rulfo ,
</i>la obra que compuso para <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rumor de Páramo</i></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Su musa es Joy Laville, la pintora
británica que lleva décadas de vivir en México y quien es la viuda del gran
escritor mexicano Jorge Ibargüengoitia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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en el sentido de complejidad innecesaria sino en el sentido de una riqueza
tomada de varios mundos: occidente y oriente, por ejemplo. Tiene momentos en
que, a mi oído, se torna francamente voluptuosa, y hay momentos en que tiene
toda la determinación y el atrevimiento de una de esas intrépidas inglesas
decimonónicas que, disfrazadas de hombres y arriesgando la muerte, penetraron hasta
la sagrada ciudad de Meca. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Debo
mencionar –aunque sea brevemente- que esta pieza llegó a mis manos el 20 de
junio del 2013, cuando yo estaba a tres días del final de esa gira en mi estado
de Guanajuato.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Llevo varios años
diciendo que el proceso creativo no es como ir a la tienda de la esquina por un
litro de leche.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Esta vez mi
convicción fue probada hasta el límite. Tenía muy poco tiempo y menos energía
creativa y mental para adentrarme en el nuevo mundo que representa aprender
cualquier obra de Mario Lavista.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Lo
dejé abierto.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Varias personas me
dijeron que tenía todo el derecho de no grabarla.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>El propio compositor lo dejó abierto.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pero ¡CARAMBA!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Estamos hablando de Mario Lavista, uno
de nuestros grandes luminarias, quien me ha hecho el gran honor de componer no
sólo una sino DOS piezas para mis dos proyectos de encargo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>¿¡Cómo que no iba a encontrar la manera
de grabar esta pieza?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Difícil
creer que hicimos tanto en poco más que una semana.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Pero sí que lo
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personas me dijeron, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">¡Pero es tan poco
tiempo!</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Me supongo que sí …
pero pensándolo, creo que es importantísimo recordar tres cosas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Primero: yo llegué lista para grabar. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Difícil precisarlo; pero tenía la muy
clara sensación que llegué lista para grabar no sólo música y técnicamente sino
también emocional y espiritualmente.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Segundo,
yo y mi ingeniero de audio Roberto de Eías –más 2º Ingeniero Kenji Calderón-
nos entendemos muy bien y tenemos lo que solamente puedo describir como una espléndida
relación de trabajo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yo tengo una
confianza absoluta en sus oídos y en su habilidad técnica.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Tercero
y final, el tener un magnífico instrumento de concierto en que grabar – y
además un magnífico técnico de piano disponible para retocar la afinación y
entonar martinetes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tanto en enero
como en julio me sentía completamente –¡extraordinariamente!—apoyada en lo que
se refiere al piano.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>¡GRACIAS MAESTRO
ALEJANDRO CUBILLO, GRACIAS YAMAHA DE MÉXICO!</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Quisiera mencionar de nuevo algo
que dije aquí en enero:</span></u></b><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> este
trabajo de entonación de martinetes es algo para le cual nunca se encontrará un
sustituto mecánico, NUNCA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Es una
labor en conjunto entre pianista y técnico: un milagro de oído, tacto e intensa
concentración por parte de ambos.</span></div>
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de las siete obras de este segundo disco, empezando con Wallach y terminando
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Lavista … </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">El
jueves, junto con mi maravilloso equipo de ingenieros, tomé dos decisiones: </span></div>
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que el viernes y sábado Kenji y yo haríamos todas las ediciones para las piezas
que habíamos grabado hasta la fecha; y segundo, que el lunes 15 yo vendría al
estudio a ensayar la obra de Lavista.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Si tuviera energías después del trabajo el sábado, me quedaría a
estudiar un rato; si no, estudiaría fuera del piano el domingo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Quisiera enormemente que todos
tuviéramos el domingo para descansar oído, mente, alma y concentración.</span></div>
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así fue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>El sábado después de
comer terminamos todas las ediciones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Y por supuesto y <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>para
sorpresa de nadie, no me quedó ni un ápice de energía para estudiar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Habría sido un insulto a esa
pieza.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Como de costumbre Kenji me
dio aventón a Metro Coyoacán; y el domingo todos descansábamos como yo deseaba.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Preparé un lomo de puerco cocido en
jugo de naranja y vino blanco con ajo; y terminado al último momento con gajos
de mango apenas cocido.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ñam, ñam,
ñam: B*** y yo lo disfrutamos con papas de cambray <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>y una ensalada y un Sauvignon Blanc argentino bien fino.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Después del café pasé un rato viendo
Lavista. Todo mi ser quiso simplemente ver y pensar, escuchar dentro de mí,
contemplar gestos y sonidos y ritmos; hacer un mapa de arquitectura y <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">affekt</i>. </span></div>
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lunes fui al estudio y ensayé con el C7.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Hermoso, unas horas sin prisa ninguna, adentrándome en la pieza. Fui a
comer al Sushi Itto en MA de Quevedo y escribí en mi cuadernito, </span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">¡Qué placer estudiar, de veras
estudiar, de la manera en que uno estudia a la hora de entrar en una nueva
pieza!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hoy es como haber
descansado días enteros en lugar de sólo ayer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Siento que estoy viendo y escuchando <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>toneladas de cosas y me estoy enamorando
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Así
que el martes lo hicimos: grabamos <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mujer
pintando en cuarto azul</i> de Mario Lavista.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No es lo que será en unos seis meses y no es perfecto (en
caso de que esto le valiera a alguien).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Mas creo que procuré comunicar –con la ayuda de ese fabuloso Yamaha C7—
su opulencia: el brillo de los agudos, el terciopelo de los graves; gran parte
de las cualidades sonoras y rítmicas y de los gestos que quisiera hacer
realidad. Y creo que hice un trabajo respetable de la arquitectura. ¡Muchos
espacios en esa pieza!</span></div>
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postre después del largo y delicioso banquete de la grabación.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Aquellos
de ustedes que seguían este blog en enero recordarán cuán segura estuve acerca
del orden de las piezas … bueno, por esto a menudo necesitamos tomar un tiempecito
para escuchar y reflexionar, sentir y volver a escuchar y reflexionar más.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fue así que en algún momento a finales
de marzo, después de escuchar el <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">pre-máster
</i>varias veces a solas y con varias personas cuyo oído respeto mucho, decidí
que ese primer disco <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Monarca</i></b> debe comenzar con <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">El viaje nocturno de Quetzalpapálotl</i> de
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escuchando el master del Disco 2 mientras escribo y me doy cuenta: después de
esa pieza de Derbez tan directa como una flecha, ya no hay más dolor escondido
y callado, ya no hay más furia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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LeBaron de EU elegió a Remedios Varo como musa y en particular, su cuadro <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Creación de las Aves, </i>que es el título
de su obra <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Monarca</i></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Para mí
esta pieza lo dice todo respecto a la tensión esencial entre el momento
rapsódico de imaginación e ideación; y la disciplina y paciencia necesarias
para hacer real a esa idea. En su nota sobre la pieza, LeBaron dice, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">El</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">origen</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">de</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">la</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">vida</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">se</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">transforma</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">así,</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">metafóricamente</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">en</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">un</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">milagro</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">de</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">sangre</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">caliente,</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">un</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">sonido</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">que</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">emprende</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">el</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">vuelo.”</span></i><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: Georgia; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Traducción: Lirio Garduño-Buono]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Esta
pieza –al menos para mí- también tiene momentos de una voluptuosidad que te
hace mover la cadera; además de humor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>¡Estoy segurísima que hay dos compases que se refieren específicamente a
la creación del Pelicano!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Y
terminamos con el <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Preludio y Estudio N<sup>o</sup>
3 Jesusa Palancares</i>, de Gabriela Ortiz. El Preludio es la bruma al amanecer
en el Istmo de Tehuantepec, moteada con unos delicados destellos de luz; el
Estudio es la energía indomable de esta mujer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sí que es, en momentos, coqueto o juguetón, hay momentos de
fragilidad y también sensualidad; pero más que nada la pieza es fogosa,
volcánica, triunfante.</span></div>
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así que terminamos, después de tanta paciencia: con éxtasis y energía.
¡Triunfante!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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Ana Cervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09378653918304616448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1830541354533635072.post-52206418066654765302013-07-14T08:04:00.000-07:002013-07-14T08:04:25.868-07:00GRABANDO MONARCA 2 (English I) julio 2013GRABANDO MONARCA 12-JULIO 2013
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Well,
almost there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sounds strange,
no?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like saying the baby is three
quarters born, or seven-eighths or something. But that is the truth.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Monday 8,
the magnificent Yamaha C7 arrives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Wonderful transport company, everyone seems very in love with his work.
After the attentions of super-piano technician A**C**., the piano is simply
incredible.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I am ready: it is time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Last-minute appeals from composers terrified that I will massacre their
pieces have no impact on me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
any case, does anyone really believe that such things affect me? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, no. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those who know me understand how completely insensitive I
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I’d designed a work calendar, the order of recording.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We changed a couple of pieces around but
otherwise we stuck to that schedule <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">impeccably
-- </b>to use engineer Roberto de Elías’ words.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wallach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Derbez.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jurado.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>McNeff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>LeBaron.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">So Thursday 11 at around 8:30pm we finished recording the Prelude and
Étude #3 <i>“Jesusa Palancares”</i> of Gabriela Ortiz.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>¡¡ORTIZ!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
electricity in Cerro de la Luz, Coyoacán, Mexico City, MÉXICO, The World was
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">OK, so we have finished recording!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>AHEM … we’ve finished recording everything we COULD record
so far.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The beautiful piece of my
dearest M.L. arrived on 20 June, as in the TWENTIETH of JUNE TWO THOUSAND
THIRTEEN … I in the middle of that little seven-concert tour in my home state
of Guanajuato and with barely enough energy –mental, musical, spiritual,
whatever you like—to even look at the score. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did it down at the piano and read through it. I’d heard the
piece on 29 April when I was in the DF and stopped by M’s house to visit and to
hear the piece.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Beautiful,
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</span>A dear colleague commented, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Oh jeez, what else can you do?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Get to work and practice like a dog so
you can make a respectable recording.”</i></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Strangely comforting; as tho’ to say, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“We are Highly Trained Music
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">So that it how it is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today
we finished ALL the editing of ALL the pieces we have recorded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was thinking of staying for a bit, to
practice the afore-mentioned Very Late Piece … but just in time I realized that
the most sensible thing to do would be to GO HOME, rest ears and mind, soul,
everything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Listening to what
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El lunes 8, llegó el magnífico Yamaha C7.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maravillosa compañía de transporte,
todos muy encariñados con su trabajo. Después de las atenciones del súper
técnico Maestro A** C*** el piano queda increíble.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Estoy lista: ya es hora. De nada
importan peticiones de último momento de compositor@s aterrad@s de que iba a
masacrar sus piezas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>De todas
maneras, ¿quién cree que esto me afecta? No, no. Aquellos que me conocen saben
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Diseñé un calendario, el orden de grabar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hubo uno que otro cambio de pieza pero
por lo general nos aferrábamos a ello –palabra del ingeniero Roberto de Elías— <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">impecablemente</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wallach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Derbez.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jurado.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>McNeff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>LeBaron.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ortiz.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Si quieren saber más de estos
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De manera que el jueves 11 a eso de
las 20:30h terminamos de grabar el <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Preludio y Estudio “Jesusa Palancares”</i></b>
de Ortiz.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Caramba, ¡¡ORTIZ!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>La electricidad en Cerro de la Luz en
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Bueno, total que terminamos de
grabar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Ajem</span> … Terminamos de grabar lo que se pudo grabar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>La hermosa pieza de mi queridísimo
Maestro M.L. me llegó hasta el día 20.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Yo en plena gira, con apenas la energía musical, mental o de cualquier
otro tipo, para ver la partitura … Sí que me senté al piano a leerla. Sonora,
luminosa, intricada y tranquila a la vez.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Ni modo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Me dijo un querido colega, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Pues ni modo Anita, hay que
ponerte a estudiar como perro para que lo puedas grabar decentemente”.</i></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Curiosamente reconfortante, como
en plan <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Somos profesionales altamente capacitados, sabemos cómo enfrentar estas
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Así que así será.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hoy sábado13 terminamos de hacer TODAS las
ediciones de TODAS las piezas que hemos grabado.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yo iba a quedarme a estudiar la susodicha pieza … pero me di
cuenta de que lo más sensato sería llegar a casa a descansar oído, mente, alma,
todo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Escuchando lo que hemos
hecho en los seis días pasados de repente sé que estoy fatigada.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Llena de adrenalina pero fatigada.</div>
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Mañana domingo veré esta obra
nueva fuera del piano.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>El lunes lo
ensayo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>El martes –primeramente
como dicen—lo grabamos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Haremos
ediciones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Y entonces podré decir
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The
original post provoked a sizeable outpouring of comments and thoughts, most –but
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Gardner’s subsequent posting, a few days later, on "Good Performances<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">" </span>… this was definitely in the Department
of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Hmmm … you gotta wonder”</i> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>because it drew many fewer commentaries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dear me, can so few composers think of
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Also in the Department of <i>"you gotta wonder" </i>...
the comment –on the “Good Performances” posting no less- from a composer who says, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“ …the orchestra where one
member stopped playing and started laughing “</i>… agghh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Words fail me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Maybe that commentary should have gone in the “Bad performances” blog?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">No matter. I want to weigh on this, as an interpreter who’s played and
commissioned a good bit of new music, as one who is not based in the US, and as
one who increasingly programs that new music with pieces from the
repertoire (Part 2 will deal with that).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I read these
comments I found coalescing in my mind a whole bunch of things that I’ve wanted
to write about more extensively for some time now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>All of them have to do with that essential composer-interpreter-listener
tripod.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of them are random:
this is not a super-organized essay with stuff like footnotes ;=))</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In her
original post, Gardner quotes Daniel Felsenfeld, who says about a poor performance,
“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">by this I do not mean a player who is
not exactly flawless but rather an unprepared and uncaring performance”</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Both of those words –<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">unprepared</i>
and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">uncaring</i>— are in a way
loaded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An unprepared performance
is almost by definition an uncaring one: the performer didn’t care enough about
the piece to prepare it adequately.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In a way the situation Kyle Gann describes in his comment several days
later is also uncaring, although superficially it seems like the opposite.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“The
performers are fantastic. The first rehearsal is the day before the
performance. Expert sight-readers, they play virtually all the notes, more or
less at the right times, but the piece never gels<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">. No time is given to understanding what this particular piece is all
about</b>. …<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had a piano
concerto played by a top-notch new-music ensemble on the above pattern. The
next year, a group of non-music-major students played it after rehearsing it
weekly from January to May<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">. The student
performance sounded much more purposeful, intelligent, and together</b>.” </i>[Emphases
mine.] </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Does this really come as a surprise to anyone?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A great chamber-music colleague in a previous life of mine said,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“<b>Time does something to music that
nothing else can do.”</b></i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Time,
plus, of course, intention and desire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Ralph Kirkpatrick writes about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“preparing
an interpretation”</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Such
a turn of phrase sounds almost 19<sup>th</sup>-century in the context of some
of these composers’ comments, doesn’t it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Pretty sad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I try in general to avoid pejoratives, and adjectives in general: to be
tolerant and open and Buddhist and such.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But here I take a stand: when the way the system works is that the first
rehearsal is the day before the performance, in which the players have to be
expert sight-readers in order to survive … Well, I say that Entire System is
twisted and bad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bad for the
music, and by that I mean bad for the composer, bad for the performer, bad for
the listener, which is everyone involved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Twisted because it basically says, <b>“Time Is Money, boys and girls, so warm
up fast, get those high kicks lined up, and on to the Next Gig.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How you might feel that gesture or that
phrase –assuming you might have the glimmer of a nanosecond to even FEEL, in this
context—has nothing to do with anything that matters.” </b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Every molecule of my being rejects this as a way of making music:
short-term, long-term, any-term, period.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Nothing wrong with being ace sight-readers: that’s been part of our
toolkit for various centuries now, for professional reasons and for our own
pleasure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The problem enters when
that gets confused with interpretation, and the preparation and time necessary
for the latter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And that comes
about, in large measure as a consequence of that nefarious “Time Is Money”
construct.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">So I say: YES, Kyle Gann, you go right ahead, maestro, and demand a
minimum of three rehearsals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And performer
colleagues, YOU demand that minimum of three rehearsals and X preparation
time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And for heaven’s sake, ask questions
and listen – talk to one another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Someone will doubtless say, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">This
is all well and good, Cervantes, but the REALITIES of our world are that this
is the way it is right now.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Well, I say: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">so </span>CHANGE THAT.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Start right now to do what you can to
change it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Demand that time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If composers start to demand it and performers
do too, pretty soon things will change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Reality is what we make it, we just need the imagination and the
intestinal fortitude, <i>las agallas</i> as we say in Spanish, to make the reality that the art deserves.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Chris Cerrone comments that “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mozart
is ritualistically slaughtered every day by aspiring students”</i> and (further
up) Pam tells an anecdote from a teacher of hers, quoting Virgil Thomson as
saying, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“ … Your music should be able to
stand up to the most incompetent performances”</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I agree.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Mozart, and various Bachs, and how many others, have survived thousands
of performances from the ridiculous to the sublime.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why should any composer creating right now set her sights
any lower? </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Who knows how much of the music that’s being created right now, with
dedication and sincerity, talent and skill, will stand the test of time, stay
for posterity, blah blah?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, we
don’t know, so we interpreters have to give the very best service we can to the
music we believe in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s
the only answer I can think of.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Yes, I said that: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“The music we believe in”</i></b>. The music
I believe in may not be the same music that my colleague in Paris or Madrid or
New York or Mexico City believes in, and that is all to the good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That way lots of different music gets
played, by interpreters who believe in it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I will go further and say: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">If you don’t believe in it, don’t play it.</i></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not fair to the composer, to the
listener, or to you as an interpreter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Assuming an interpreter is what you are and aspire to be, as opposed to
some kind of living, breathing MIDI reproduction machine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Of course when we are studying we work on all kinds of music: that is
how we form judgement, context, and taste.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m talking about later on, when you’re out there in the Big
Bad World, as a Professional.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This only goes for soloist and chamber colleagues: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If after giving it some time you don’t
have convictions about the piece, or aren’t excited about it, you shouldn’t be
playing it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just that simple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe you keep it on your music shelf
for later examination, but you have no business playing it right now: chances
are good it will result in one of those lacklustre realizations to which we
have all snoozed off at one time or another. It’s not fair to you, to the
composer, to the listener.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you
feel your group pressured you into playing it then you need to all sit down and
work out a better consensus process for selecting rep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe it wasn’t written for you, or
even for your instrument (this has been known to happen).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">What is written is the score, whether it looks like George Crumb or
Johannes Brahms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is that basic
document from which we depart and to which we must always return.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This is assuming that the piece interests you, that it engages you, that
you feel you will have something to say with it: If the score is ambiguous
after you’ve studied it thoroughly, ASK.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If there is idiotic accidental-enharmonic notation because of Finale or Sibelius,
propose a change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you sense
what the composer is trying to do but the writing for your instrument is badly
conceived –or even if it doesn’t work for your hands, jiminy-- propose a change
or an <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ossia</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Liszt proposed some of his own, in
consideration of pianists who hadn’t his genius at the instrument.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Musicologist colleagues, please correct
me … </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I was glad to read Andrew H’s comment, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“If you’ve written something so weird that nobody notices when you get
a bad performance, the joke’s on you, so to speak. Certainly you’re not doing
yourself any favors by blaming it on the performers; and if you can accept some
responsibility, you’re a step closer to fixing the problem. … Honest question:
If you’re not writing for real performers and a real audience, with
understanding of the shortcomings of each, then what business do you have
seeking a performance of your work?”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He goes on to remark, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“There’s no
shame in writing for yourself, but you can’t expect someone else to understand
foreign concepts unless you take the time to teach them. And yes, that means
audience education for anything which isn’t closely related to standard rep for
that audience.”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>by the way, why can’t
performers share that audience education with composers?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we are really inside the skin of a
piece, when we have really prepared an interpretation, in Kirkpatrick’s
beautiful phrase, we are uniquely capable of doing that.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Andrew H starts by observing, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“isn’t
it in some sense the composer’s fault for writing a piece that’s not
followable, such that even the performers can’t get it right? Should we ever
allow ourselves to be absolved of that responsibility?”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have to say, dear Andrew H, that I
think it’s not anyone’s FAULT in particular.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like better your word <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">responsibility</i>.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This put me in mind of a favourite quote from (yes, again) Kirkpatrick’s
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Preface </i>to his edition of the
Scarlatti Sonatas:</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“As every composer and writer knows, there is no better way of finding
out what one really feels than having to set it down on paper, or having to
communicate it through an artificial and restricted medium.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A composer cannot write down an
orchestral score without having eliminated every element of the haphazard and
non-organic: he has to do much more than merely float on the seas of his own
emotions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He must adopt definite
concrete means of conveying those emotions through a medium over which he no
longer has any direct control, nor any control at all other than the manner in
which he has set his notes down on paper.”</span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Kirkpatrick goes on to describe a parallel process for the interpreter …
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“The performer’s problem is less formidable, but similar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He must be able to marshal the
spontaneity of his sensations into a coherent, ordered performance which he can
produce at any time and under any circumstances.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To this end, he must sense what elements of a piece are
fixed and unchangeable in their relationship to each other, what is basic
syntax and structure, and what is mere rhetorical inflection, what can be
improvised and altered from performance to performance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only by this security in relation to
basic musical elements can he achieve true freedom and spontaneity in
performance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ability to make
departures depends on a thorough knowledge of what one is departing from.”</span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The last sentence in that memorable paragraph, I feel, applies equally
to the composer.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In the “Good performances” post, Gardner writes:</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“While the ‘us vs. them’ dichotomy between composers and performers is
apparently alive and well, it seems highly unproductive. The last time I
checked, we are all musicians. Maybe we are approaching the language of music
from different standpoints, but we are all in the same field. I may not be a
performer, but when I’m working with a musician or ensemble, I enter into that
relationship with the expectation that we are all striving to reach the same
goal. It doesn’t always work out, but even if it doesn’t, the world keeps
turning. Both good performances and bad performances are a two-way street—it’s
up to both composer and performer to work together to determine how things are
going to shake out.”</span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I can’t believe there is still some sort of “us-vs.-them” dichotomy
between composers and performers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Didn't that die a a well-deserved death a decade or so ago?
</span>How can this be?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not
only “highly unproductive”, as Gardner says: it’s absurd.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To begin with, it makes hard labour out
of something that should, in the end, be FUN. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A major factor must surely be the above-mentioned “Time is
Money” fake world which we must all set to work and change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">So how do we make it better –at least in the short term?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I say: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Think, listen, talk</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">David Wolfson comments, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“ … I’ve
found that musicians rarely want to tell you if you’ve written something
unidiomatic for their instrument; they seem to feel it’s their responsibility
to somehow make it work.”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes.
In my experience this is too often true.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For reasons with which I won’t bore the assembled e-multitudes, it took
me a long, long time to learn how to do this. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think musicians have a kind of basic reverence for
composers, for the act of creation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is really wonderful, we should indeed have that reverence; but it
shouldn’t make us deaf and dumb.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If anything, it should heighten our curiosity and daring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Looking back, I think it was working with student composers here in
México during and after my Fulbright-García Robles year which did that for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In reality, all I learned was to ask
the same question I ask the score of a composer whom I can’t call up on the
telephone: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“What’s going on here?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What are you trying to say?” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">You simply can’t dive in saying stuff like, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“This doesn’t work”</i>: to begin with it’s just not kind. (Plus, would
you do that with Brahms?) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You have
to ask; and then be prepared to reciprocate by speaking honestly about things
that you just don’t get, that don’t work for you (and be sure you yourself<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>know why that is) or that –in your
opinion— don’t meet the goals the composer has stated; and then propose
solutions based on your own convictions about the piece as an interpreter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">If there is a composer out there who says that I as an interpreter have
no business having convictions about the piece, I say, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Go home and play with your inflatable MIDI doll, honey, I fear we have
nothing to talk about.</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">To the composer who says that he shouldn’t have to explain things
verbally to the interpreter, I say, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Wake
up and smell the coffee my dear!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You will
have to talk with audiences in an approachable and non-condescending way;
figure out how to do it with performers as well. </i>Not only will it help your
musical life, it will help your personal one as well.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">To the performer who finds it difficult to talk with the composer about
instrumental or other issues, I say, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Find
a way, dear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ask questions of the
composer and also of yourself: What’s going on here (in this passage, in this
section, in this piece)?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">my</b> story about this piece?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What would I say to a non-specialized
audience to introduce it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>The
very best question to ask the composer, always --for me at least-- is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What are you trying to do here</i>?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Sometimes the instrumental difficulties can be resolved SO easily it’s
almost laughable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But to find that
out you have to ask, and, as I mention above, sometimes based on your own hands
and your own convictions about the piece –and with the score always present—
you propose an <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ossia</i>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That same thing about musical life and
personal life goes for interpreters as well, some more people skills never hurt
anyone!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I agree with Kirkpatrick when he says that the score must be as clear as
the composer can possibly make it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Once you write down what’s in your inner ear, it’s not exclusively yours
any more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Involving a good,
thoughtful interpreter in the process, once you have a close-to-final version
of the score, can help you get the distance you need in order to understand what you
might have omitted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But once you
finish that process, you have no control: you’ve given the piece to the
universe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I remember when I was working on John Corigliano’s <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fantasy on an Ostinato</i></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At a certain point in the piece he puts
the indication <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“unhurried”</i></b>. It’s in a place where I suppose one might be
tempted to move briskly along.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That one word <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Unhurried</i></b>, as I thought about it,
completely changed my perspective.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It also made me think twice about every <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">meno mosso</i> I ever saw afterwards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or Debussy’s tempo indication at the beginning of his 2<sup>nd</sup>
Étude <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pour les tierces</i> </b>(for Thirds): <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Moderato ma non troppo</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Now that is one to think about!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is all part of the work that each of us, composer and interpreter,
must undertake.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">You have to be mindful of your words and have your brain in gear before
you move your mouth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This sounds
like more basic “people skills” but I have to say that a good percentage of the
reasons behind the composer-performer dichotomy to which Alexandra refers would
be helped along mightily by a good dose of those.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A recent example: I asked a Symphony colleague here about a
commissioned piece which the orchestra was preparing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He made a regretful face and said,<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> It’s just not a good piece</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Knowing and respecting the composer and her music I asked, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Good heavens, why?</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Oh Jeez</i>, he said, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the
harmonics for the ‘cellos aren’t properly written.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Such a pain!</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>OK sweetie, It’s a pain; but that’s a deficiency in how the score was
prepared, not poor architecture or conception or inadequate through-composing
or fundamental stuff like that.</span></div>
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Ana Cervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09378653918304616448noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1830541354533635072.post-82294054080854638192013-03-19T20:54:00.001-07:002013-03-19T20:54:44.434-07:00CONCERT IN TORREÓN (English)
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt; text-transform: uppercase;">recital
in Torreón 9 March 2013</span>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;">I wrote this on Sunday 10 but then
got busy; so it’s only now that I translate and post my notes about this
amazing, lightning trip to play in Torreón … </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;">One week after playing –and
recording (watch this space!)— the lovely <i><b>Divertimento for Piano and Orchestra</b></i>
of Joaquín Gutiérrez Heras (RIP) with the OSUG, I was to give a solo recital in
Torreón (Coahuila), Mexico: a mixed program of <i><b>Monarca </b></i>women composers together
with pieces from the repertoire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(You can see the program below.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The concert was in observance of International Women’s Day and was
presented jointly by a Torreón NGO, Mujeres Salvando Mujeres <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(Women Saving Women)</i> –more info
below—and the Patronato (Trustees) of the Teatro Nazas.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;">A***<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and I went with up to Torreón on
Thursday night. Bus leaves León (an hour from Guanajuato) at 21:00h and
arrives Torreón 06:00. When we arrived, I knew I'd slept but had no
actual memory of having done so, if that makes sense. We had a couple of
hours for breakfast and R&R before a quite intensive round of interviews
started at 10am, mostly radio but also TV (remember to brush that hair and
check that lipstick, Cervantes). </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><b>that first, amazing interview in the park ...</b></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><b><br /></b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another radio interview, this one a bit more conventional, but no less fun!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And yes, the TV interview, actually the first of two</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;">Somewhere around 2:30pm we
had a fast comida and that was when I put my foot down and said, "I really MUST
have a couple of hours with the piano". A noble instrument indeed: a
9-ft Steinway at least 100 years old, still with the original ivory keys but
with new innards, from what I could see and hear. The hall was originally
an abandoned movie theatre which, about 8 years ago, was getting ready to be
torn down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The artistic and
business communities of Torreón joined forces and formed a Board of Trustees,
and abracadabra, it became the really gorgeous venue that it now is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has an acoustic nothing short of
divine and a very cozy, welcoming vibe: lots of wood, lots of red. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Capacity ca. 1200 but they can draw a
curtain about halfway which brings it down to ca. 600. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the entrance to the beautiful Teatro Nazas</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adriana next to the big board with the monthly events: There I am: March 9!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And that warm and beautiful interior ... </td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;">I think there were about 150
people at my concert, which is really quite remarkable for an event of that
kind – especially considering the local football (soccer in the US) team was playing
that night. A lovely audience, just radiating attention and good energy
back to me. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;">This concert was presented by
Mujeres Salvando Mujeres <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(Women Saving
Women)</i>, a Torreón NGO whose members are some eight doctors, a couple of
chemists, a businesswoman and I forget the other one or two. All of the
Drs are connected in some way with breast cancer diagnosis and treatment; at
least two of the members are breast cancer survivors. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;">What an amazing, dynamic,
bunch of mover-and-shaker women!! It turns out that one of the reasons they
formed is that Coahuila has MORE THAN TWICE the national rate of breast
cancer. Not clear what combination of environmental-societal-public
health issues makes this the case; added to the fact that these factors, both
individually and in combination, are very much in flux these days. Amazingly
for a city its size (population 608,000 in 2010), Torreón has only two
gynecological oncologists and one of them is a member of this group. <br />
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Torreón has been hit terribly hard by the random violence of the narco
business. Barely ten metres from the stage door of the Teatro Nazas where
I performed was a group of soldiers with sandbags and machine guns at the
ready. On practically every corner at night, at least in that area which
is only a block from the Plaza de Armas (the central square), there are similar
groups of soldiers or Policía Federal. People were, for a while,
retreating into their homes, and some still are. When this happens, it
weakens society: each person locked up in his house-citadel, isolated from
neighbours and other people in the community.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;">The creative and artistic community
of Torreón recently got fed up with this situation and decided to reclaim the
public life of the city, its streets and parks. Thus, my first interview
on Friday morning was with Joel de Santiago, who now does all the interviews
for his radio program in public places: parks, restaurants, streets, etc.
This is just one tiny showing of what apparently is a vast effort, practically
one artist at a time, to take back the city's public life. Really
beautiful, really moving. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;">On Friday night we were
able to go to the concert of the Camerata Coahuila, in that same Teatro Nazas, and
it was a great concert:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a Haydn
Symphony (#85) and the Pergolesi <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Stabat
Mater</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Haydn was light as air
but solid where it needed to be, with what I felt was really well-conceived
architecture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pergolesi featured
two really impressive young singers –soprano Sandra López and mezzo Araceli
Pérez— together with the Children’s Choir of the Colegio (like a lycée)
Cervantes; all girls as it happened,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>just adorable, AND they sang really well!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Camerata sounds just great and I felt Ramón Shade did a
lovely job of conducting: such good taste and sensibility.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;">The atmosphere was palpably
full of excitement and pride and enjoyment. Apparently audience numbers
sank a bit for a while but are now climbing up again. Yet another
demonstration of how art is an essential glue that holds society together
because it shows people where some common ground can be; it gives us a strength
we wouldn't have otherwise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
fact, after this first visit to Torreón I will dare to say that when the
physical, “real” world becomes most perilous is when art is most apt to come
out into the streets: remember that ‘cellist in Sarajevo?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;">So, my concert: it was good
and I was pretty happy. It's a monster program but it works; although I think
I may cut the second Debussy <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Étude</i>
from future versions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of you
may ask, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Jeez, Ana, might you consider
slightly less monster programs?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>I
have asked myself the same question.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But in this case it really worked: no one seemed tired from too much
concentrating, or burned-out in the ears.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I think beginning the program with that gorgeous CPE Bach Sonata (the 5<sup>th</sup>
of the “Prussian” series), and starting the second half with that exuberant
first Debussy <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Étude</i> so totally sets
the stage for the splendid music that comes afterwards that the listener is simply
consumed with curiosity and doesn’t get tired.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;">I was going to do a
pre-concert talk at 7pm before an 8pm curtain, but for whatever set of reasons
it got lost in the shuffle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So
when I walked on stage at about 8:15 I asked the assembled multitudes if they
wanted a talk, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">per se</i>; or for me just
to talk briefly before each piece as I always do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The latter, they made clear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So that was what I did: what I always do!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just as well: I prefer a smaller space
for a pre-concert conversation, or at least to invite everyone up close to the
piano.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;">I have to say a word about
the management of the Teatro Nazas, which was totally, gratifyingly
professional.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So many venues where
no one has even thought to leave me a bottle of water! None of that nonsense
here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everything from their press
to the dressing-room was exemplary.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;">There were some problems
with the octaves being in tune in the bottom register of the piano. In my note
I'd asked the piano technician to fix these; either he tried and couldn't or
didn't even try. Note to self: INSIST on meeting with technician to check
his/her work. I got spoiled in the DF with the Yamaha super-técnico, and
here too, now that local super-técnico Ramón Sanabria is only a hour away. SO
distracting to have to remember to play only ONE note of an octave in some of
these passages in Pilar Jurado and Gaby Ortiz, not to mention Debussy, for
Christ's sake. But the concert went really well; I was pleased, the audience
was really REALLY pleased, the theatre's Director was pleased, A*** was
pleased. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;">Just enough time for a
warp-speed supper afterwards (delicious paella) and some toasts right there in
another room of that capacious theatre; and we dashed to the bus station.
The theatre director's secretary had found an Omnibus de México (OdM) departure
at midnight and we grabbed it: the next two options were 4am on OdM and 10pm the
following night (Sunday) on ETN (the super-luxurious line). Both A*** and
I had lots to do on Monday and thus needed Sunday to rest; so that midnight bus
was just the ticket. I was home by 10:30am Sunday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A long trip and I am now edging up to
catatonia, but very happy to have played a good concert for such a wonderful
audience, and happy to be home with my pets and my piano!</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">(Alemania, 1714-1788)</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Prusiana
#5</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>1.
</span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Poco
Allegro <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2. </b>Andante <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">3. </b>Allegro Assai</span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Silvia Berg<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">El sueño … el
vuelo (2010)</span></span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">(Brasil, </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: PT-BR; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">1958</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">)<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">[Musa: Frida Kahlo y su
Casa Azul]</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Alba Potes<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Desde
el aire: seis instantes (2010) </span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">(Colombia, 1954)<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">[Carlota de Habsburgo]</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1.</b> Pensativo con Premoniciones </span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>2.</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Certidumbre: incertidumbre<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">3.</b> Los juegos se
desvanecen </span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">4.</b> Detalles distantes <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">5.</b> Aprisa<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">6.</b> Introspectivo </span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Pilar Jurado</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Primero sueño<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-TRAD; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">(2010) </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">(España, 1968)<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>[Sor
Juana Inés de la Cruz]</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Joelle Wallach<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Lágrimas y
locuras: Mapping the Mind of </span></span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">(EUA, </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: PT-BR; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">1960</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">) <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> <b> </b> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">a Madwoman </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">(<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">cartografiando la
mente de una loca)</span></span></i><b><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> (2011) </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-TRAD; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Claude Debussy <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> <i></i></span>Deux
Études <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(Dos Estudios):</i> </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">(Francia, 1862-1918)<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Pour les Cinq Doigts </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">(para los cinco dedos)</span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pour les Tierces </b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(para las terceras)</i></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Georgina Derbez<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Un
Vuelo para Ana </span></b><b><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">(2011)</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">(México, 1968)<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> <b> </b> </span>[Ana
Cervantes]</span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Anne LeBaron<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Creación
de las aves </span></b><b><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">(2011) </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">(EUA, 1953)</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">[Remedios Varo]</i></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Gabriela Ortiz<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Preludio
y Estudio<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
(2011) </span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">(México,
1964)</span></i><b><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></span></b><i><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">[Jesusa Palancares]</span></i><i><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Toda
la música excepto Bach y Debussy </span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">encargada por Cervantes
para </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Canto de la Monarca<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-MX; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Estreno en Torreón de toda la música de <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Canto de la Monarca</i></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: georgia; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;">MONDAY …<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And there is a review!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Karla found it while looking for the
link to another press clipping.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
asked her to feed it into Google Translator, thinking to save myself a little
work, and the results ranged from ghastly to incoherent; oh well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still it was marginally easier to
correct than to start from scratch. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is still a mystery to me where that bit about “electronic
music” came from: the only thing that occurs to me is when I play inside the
piano in Pilar Jurado’s piece? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whatever,
here it is …</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cd0000; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 22.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.5pt;">MILENIO</span></div>
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3:23PM — ÁNGEL REYNA</span></div>
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<a href="http://laguna.milenio.com/cdb/doc/noticias2011/c48d6d197085e209d71fc7eb1555bbc0"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://laguna.milenio.com/cdb/doc/noticias2011/c48d6d197085e209d71fc7eb1555bbc0</span></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Her interpretative elegance at the piano is
matched only by the carefully chosen repertoire played at the concert organized
by "Women Saving Women" and the Trustees of the Teatro Nazas.</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ana
Cervantes is a curious example of a woman at once firm and gentle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her interpretive elegance is matched
only by the carefully chosen repertoire she played at the concert presented by
the Torreón association "Women Saving Women" and the Trustees of the Nazas
Theatre on Saturday night.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The project
might seem titanic at first glance, because really, the US-Mexican artist might
easily spend the rest of her life performing this music which over the course
of two years she commissioned: a series of compositions based on Mexican women
and women who lived in Mexico –like Charlotte of Hapsburg— and who served as
"muses" for 17 authors from five countries.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A fortunate
combination of music classical, contemporary and newly made in a recital
unexpected on a football night in Santos <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">[the
name of the local team]</i> territory, which delighted both audience and
performer with nine compositions covering a balance of sounds that ranged from
baroque to modern, New Age and electronic music compositions <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">[not sure where this came from –perhaps playing
inside the piano in Jurado?]</i>, all pieces created for Ana Cervantes for <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Canto
de la Monarca: Mujeres en México</i></b>; except those of CPE Bach and Debussy of
course.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">She spoke about
this project which embodies a paradox: women who are<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>--according to certain paradigms— fragile; but the paradigms
are suddenly broken on stage and then begin to fall apart in real life.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Sponsored
by Conaculta, INBA and SEP, this program consisted of the responses to
Cervantes’ commission by Silvia Berg (Brazil), Alba Potes (Colombia), Pilar
Jurado (Spain), Joelle Wallach and Anne LeBaron (USA), and Georgina Derbez and
Gabriela Ortiz (Mexico), among other compositional accomplices of the pianist.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Delicacy which
is detained in time to not lose the forcefulness necessary for this or any
other kind of music and which demonstrates the thousand musical metaphors of
the female image.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">After a
slight confusion in the schedule, Cervantes cut short her pre-concert talk <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and began the concert, making brief
remarks before each piece, from the “Prussian” Sonata in C Major by Carl
Philipp Emmanuel Bach to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Prelude and Étude</i></b> of Mexican composer
Gabriela Ortiz.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The public was
thrilled, attentive even with the pieces which were less easy to digest musically, such
as <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">First
I Dream</i></b> of Pilar Jurado.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Cervantes
is a former Fulbright-Garcia Robles Scholar (1999-2000); and the beneficiary of
a Conaculta-INBA EPROMUSICA grant specifically to support this project, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Song
of the Monarch: Women in Mexico</i></b> inspired in historical figures such as
La Malinche and in literary characters like Jesusa Palancares, the protagonist of
the Elena Poniatowska book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
has also received grants from other Mexican government agencies.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The result
is this première in Torreón that gave Ana Cervantes the opportunity to make her
first visit here and to work with "Women Saving Women" and the Teatro
Nazas. </span></div>
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composers from Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Spain, the United States and Great
Britain responded to Cervantes’ commission with the enthusiasm of the artist invited
to participate in a commissioning project.</span></div>
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Ana Cervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09378653918304616448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1830541354533635072.post-57969215654628514672013-03-19T20:33:00.000-07:002013-03-19T21:02:49.884-07:00CONCIERTO EN TORREÓN ...<style>
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</style><span style="font-family: georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;">Escribí esto el domingo 10 pero luego me puse muy
ocupada, así que es hasta ahora que traduzco y subo mis apuntes sobre este
asombroso viaje relámpago a Torreón …</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;">Una semana después de tocar –y grabar (sigan
atentos)—el hermoso <i><b>Divertimento para Piano y Orquesta</b></i> de Joaquín Gutiérrez
Heras, QEPD, con la OSUG, iba a dar un recital solo en Torreón (Coahuila),
México: un programa mixto de siete compositoras Monarca junto con piezas del
repertorio.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Pueden ver el
programa abajo.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>El concierto fue
el sábado 9, en el marco de las celebraciones del Día Internacional de la Mujer
y fue presentado conjuntamente por la ONG de Torreón <b>Mujeres Salvando Mujeres</b>
–más info abajo—y el Patronato del Teatro Nazas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;">Así que A*** y yo viajamos al norte la noche del
jueves 7.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>El autobús sale de León
(una hora de Guanajuato) a las 21:00h y llega a Torreón a las 06:00h.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cuando llegamos sabía que había dormido
durante el viaje pero no tenía ninguna memoria de haberlo hecho; no sé si tiene
caso.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tuvimos un tiempecito para
desayunar y recargar pilas un poco antes de que una agenda bastante intensiva
de entrevistas inició a las 10h, principalmente radio pero también en la tele
(Cervantes, acuérdate de cepillarte el pelo y pintar los labios … ).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Esa impactante primera entrevista, en el parque ... </u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Otra el el radio con Coca, tantito más convencional ¡pero no por eso menos disfrutable!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Y sí, la de la tele ... ;=))</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;">Alrededor de las 14:30 comimos algo rápido y fue cuando dije,
URGE que yo tenga un par de horas con el piano del foro.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Y un muy noble instrumento que es: un
Steinway de gran cola, mínimo de cien años de edad, con su teclado original de
marfil pero –de lo que pude ver y escuchar- con sus entrañas todas nuevas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>El foro era un cine que hace unos ocho
años se alistaron a demoler, hasta que la comunidad artística de la ciudad
juntó cabezas con la empresarial, se formó un patronato y el inmueble se
convirtió en el espacio que ahora es.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Tiene una acústica nada menos que divina, y una atmósfera cálida y
acogedora: mucha madera, mucho rojo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adriana al lado de la mampara en la entrada al Nazas. Allí estoy yo, ¡el 9 de marzo!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Y el interior ... ¡bello y acogedor!</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;">Cupo unas 1200 personas; aunque pueden correr una
cortina que divide el foro para cortarlo a unas 600.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Creo que hubo unas 150 gentes en mi concierto, lo cual es
impresionante para un concierto de este tipo – sobre todo considerando que fue
una noche de futbol en que el equipo local jugaba.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Un público hermoso que irradiaba atención y buena energía. </span>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;">El concierto se presentó por <b>Mujeres Salvando
Mujeres</b>, una ONG lagunense (así se denominan los ciudadanos de Torreón), cuyos
integrantes son unas ocho doctoras, un par de químicas, una empresaria y en
este momento no recuerdo a qué se dedican las otras dos o tres.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Todas las doctoras están conectadas de
alguna manera con el diagnóstico y tratamiento del cáncer de mama; por lo menos
dos de las integrantes son supervivientes de ese cáncer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;">¡Qué asombroso grupo de mujeres!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dinámicas, enérgicas, entusiastas, de
las que una vez que decidan actuar, OJO, son arrolladoras.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Resulta que una de las principales
razones que formaron este grupo es que la tasa de cáncer de mama en Coahuila es
más del doble de la tasa promedia nacional: 26% en lugar de 11%.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No es claro qué combinación de factores
medioambientales, socioeconómicos y de salud pública lo causa; además que todos
estos factores, tanto a nivel individual como en su conjunto, están en un
estado de mucho flujo actualmente.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Asombrosamente para una ciudad del tamaño de Torreón (unas 608,000
personas en el 2010) hay sólo dos oncólogos ginecológicos; una de ellos es
integrante de este grupo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;">Torreón ha sido terriblemente golpeada por la
violencia -que parece casi aleatorica- del narco.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A escasos diez metros de la entrada artística del Teatro
Nazas hubo una verdadera trinchera de militares, con todo y ametralladoras y
costales de arena.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>De noche, por
lo menos en esa área a dos o tres cuadras de la Plaza de Armas, en cada esquina
hay grupos de militares o de la Policía Federal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Durante un tiempo, nos contaron, las personas en efecto
replegaron a sus casas, y algunas todavía lo hacen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cuando sucede esto, la sociedad se debilita, porque no hay
solidaridad: cada quien a su casa-ciudadela y aislado de sus vecinos y su
comunidad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;">La comunidad creativa y artística de la ciudad, hace
poco, se hartó de esta situación. Decidieron retomar la vida pública de la
ciudad, sus calles, parques y jardines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>De manera que la primera entrevista esa mañana del viernes fue con Joel
de Santiago, quien ahora para su programa de radio casi no hace entrevistas en
el estudio: las hace todas en parques, jardines, restaurantes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Es una pequeña muestra de lo que según
nos dicen es un vasto esfuerzo, prácticamente un artista a la vez, de retomar
la vida pública de la ciudad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Muy
bello, muy conmovedor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;">Esa noche del viernes pudimos presenciar el
concierto de la Camerata Coahuila, en ese mismo Teatro Nazas, y fue un gran
concierto: la Sinfoníaa #85 de Joseph Haydn y el <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Stabat Mater </i>de Pergolesi.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Haydn fue tan ligero como el aire pero sólido cuando se lo pedía; y para
el Stabat Mater hubo dos impresionantes jóvenes cantantes –la soprano Sandra
López y la mezzo Araceli Pérez- junto con el Coro de Niños (en efecto puras
niñas) del Colegio Cervantes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>¡Adorables, y además cantaron MUY bien!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>La Camerata suena excelente, están tocando requetebién; y
sentí que el Maestro Ramón Shade hizo un maravilloso trabajo, de muy buen gusto
y de mucha sensibilidad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;">La vibra en el teatro fue palpablemente llena de
emoción, orgullo y goce.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Según nos
dijeron, la asistencia del público cayó durante un rato pero ahora ha empezado
a subir de nuevo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aún otra muestra
de cómo el arte es un esencial pegamento que une a la sociedad, porque enseña a
la gente donde se puede encontrar algún terreno en común: nos proporciona una
fortaleza que de otra manera no tenemos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>De hecho, después de esta primera visita mía a Torreón, me atrevo a
decir que es cuando el mundo físico y “real” se pone más peligroso que el arte brota
y sale a las calles: ¿se acuerdan del chelista de Sarajevo?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;">Mi concierto, pues: fue bien y yo contenta.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fue un programa monstruoso pero
funciona: aunque creo que cortaré el segundo <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Étude</i> de Debussy en futuras versiones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Algunos de uds me preguntarán, <i>¿Chin, Anita, podrías
considerar programas un tantito menos monstruos?</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><i> </i> </span>Me he preguntado lo mismo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pero en este caso de veras funcionó: nadie me pareció
cansado de la concentración, o quemado de los oídos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Creo que el iniciar el programa con esa hermosísima Sonata
de CPE Bach (la 5ª de la serie <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">prusiana</i>)
y la segunda mitad con el exuberante primer <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Étude</i>
de Debussy hace tan buena cimentación para la espléndida música que sigue que
simplemente el escucha está consumido por la curiosidad y no se cansa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;">Iba a hacer una interactiva charla pre-concierto a
las 19h antes de empezar el concierto a las 20h; pero por razones que
desconozco esa idea se descarriló.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Así que cuando salí al escenario tipo 20:15 pregunté a las multitudes si
quisieran la charla como tal o que simplemente yo hablara brevemente antes de
cada pieza como siempre hago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Adelante con el concierto, respondieron.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Así que así lo hice: lo que siempre hago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Menos mal: prefiero un espacio más
íntimo para una charla de esas, o al menos la posibilidad de invitar a todos
muy cerca al piano.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;">Debo dedicar un par de palabras a la gerencia del
Teatro Nazas, de un profesionalismo total y gratificante.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>¡Tantos foros donde ni siquiera se le
ha ocurrido a alguien dejarme una botella de agua!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nada de eso aquí.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;">Hubo, eso sí, un par de problemas con la afinación
de las octavas del registro grave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>En mi nota al maestro técnico había rogado que los arreglara: ya sea que
lo intentó y no pudo, o ni siquiera lo intentó, estaban mal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nota a mí misma: Hay que INSISTIR en
una reunión con el técnico para revisar como quedó el piano.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Volví algo consentida en el DF con el
súper-técnico de Yamaha; y aquí también, ahora que el súper-técnico local Ramón
Sanabria está a una hora de distancia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Estorba TANTO tener que recordarme de tocar una sola nota en lugar de la
octava en esos pasajes de Pilar Jurado y Gabriela Ortiz, por no mencionar
Debussy, rediós.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pero en fin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>El concierto fue muy bien, yo contenta,
el público requetecontento, la Directora del Teatro muy contenta, A*** contenta.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;">El tiempo justo, después, para una cena casi a
velocidad luz (una paella sabrosísima) y unos brindis, allá mero en otro cuarto
del espacioso Teatro; y llegamos corriendo a la Central de autobuses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>La secre de la Directora nos había
encontrado una salida en Ómnibus de México (OdM) a la medianoche y lo
agarramos. Las dos teníamos cosas que hacer aquí el lunes para que
necesitábamos estar descansadas. Fueron diez horas y media de viaje: pero el
domingo a las 10:30 estuve en casa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Un largo viaje y estoy orillando a la catatonia ¡pero muy feliz de haber
tocado un buen concierto para tan maravilloso público y feliz de estar en casa
con mi piano y mis mascotas!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;">LUNES
… Y ¡hay una reseña!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Karla lo
encontró mientras buscaba la liga para otro recorte de prensa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Me sigue siendo un misterio total de
dónde el autor cosechó lo de música electrónica: lo único que se me ocurre es
¿cuándo toco dentro del piano en la pieza de Pilar Jurado?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bueno, como sea, va el texto.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>La liga es </span><a href="http://laguna.milenio.com/cdb/doc/noticias2011/c48d6d197085e209d71fc7eb1555bbc0"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://laguna.milenio.com/cdb/doc/noticias2011/c48d6d197085e209d71fc7eb1555bbc0</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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3:23PM — ÁNGEL REYNA</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.5pt;">Su elegancia
interpretativa al piano, sólo se iguala a la cuidada selección del repertorio
que tocó en el recital organizado por “Mujeres salvando Mujeres” y el Patronato
del teatro Nazas.</span></b></div>
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una extraña muestra de mujer firme y </span><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">suave </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">a la vez:
su elegancia</span></div>
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iguala a la cuidada selección del repertorio que tocó en el recital organizado
por la asociación lagunera “Mujeres salvando Mujeres” y el Patronato del Teatro
Nazas este sábado por la noche. Un proyecto que de </span><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">entrada </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">pareciera titánico, porque en realidad puede no terminar en el
resto de la vida de la artista Méxiconorteamericana que recopiló en dos años
una serie de composiciones que parten de mujeres mexicanas, o que vivieron en
México –como Carlota de de Habsburgo- y que sirvieron como “musas” para 15
autoras de cinco países.</span></div>
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afortunada combinación de música </span><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">clásica</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">,
contemporánea y recién hecha en un recital inesperado para una noche de futbol
en territorio Santos y que deleitó a la intérprete y al auditorio con nueve
composiciones en un extraño equilibrio que abarcó sonidos barrocos, modernos,
de la Nueva Era y música electrónica en composiciones, salvo las de Bach y
Debussy por supuesto, realizadas por encargo de Ana Cervantes para su proyecto
“Monarca”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Ella platicó sobre este
proyecto que es una paradoja, el mundo femenino a través de la aparente
fragilidad que supone conforme a paradigmas que se rompen de pronto en el
escenario y que comienzan a romperse en la vida real.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Auspiciado por el
Conaculta, el INBA y la SEP, el programa se integra con la respuesta que dieron
a Cervantes las compositoras Silvia Berg, de Brasil, Alba Potes, de Colombia,
Pilar Jurado, de España, Joelle Wallach, y Anne LeBaron, de la Unión Americana,
y Georgina Derbez y Gabriela Ortíz, de México, entre otras cómplices de la
pianista.</span></div>
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delicadeza que se detiene a tiempo para no perder la fuerza necesaria que se
requiere para esta y cualquier otro tipo de música y que muestra las mil formas
musicales de la imagen femenina.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Luego de
salvar una confusión en el horario, Cervantes abrevió su charla y comenzó el
recital con breves comentarios previos a cada una de las piezas, desde la
Sonata en do mayor de Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, hasta el Preludio y </span><span style="color: #006600; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Estudio </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">de la mexicana Gabriela Ortiz, donde el público puso atención y se
emocionó incluso con las piezas que no resultaron tan fáciles de digerir
musicalmente hablando, como “Primero Sueño”, de Pilar Jurado.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Cervantes es ex
becaria de la Fulbright-García Robles en 1999-2000 y de la EPROMUSICA del
Conaculta-INBA y de otras instancias gubernamentales mexicanas que han apostado
con ella por este proyecto “Canto de la Monarca-Mujeres en México” que atienden
a remembranzas de figuras históricas como La Malintzin y literarias como Jesusa
[Palancares], el personaje de Elena Poniatowska.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>El resultado es este estreno que dio a Ana Cervantes la
oportunidad de visitar por primera vez Torreón y de trabajar con “Mujeres
Salvando Mujeres” y el teatro Nazas. </span></div>
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de México, Brasil, Colombia, España, Estados Unidos y la Gran Bretaña,
respondieron a Cervantes con el entusiasmo del artista que atiende un encargo.</span></div>
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Ana Cervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09378653918304616448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1830541354533635072.post-46920421389335295172013-02-04T20:35:00.000-08:002013-02-04T20:35:30.404-08:00AHORA, SÍ, ESTO ES MÍO. POR AHORA ... LUEGO LO DARÉ AL UNIVERSO ...<br />
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">PENSAMIENTOS </span>ESCUCHANDO
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Tengo que escribir esto ahora,
AHORA, mientras todo esté caliente.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Inglés, español, lo que venga primero a la mente.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Una disculpa … quizás algo más
coherente saliere después<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>…</div>
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Estoy escuchando el <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">pre-master </i>de este primer disco de <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Canto
de la Monarca </i></b>y quiero decirles todos que yo tenía razón, no estaba
loca, esta música es FENOMENAL, es fenomenal toda junta, FUNCIONA.</div>
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Otros intérpretes –muchos, espero— tocarán
esta música … ojalá y muchos, porque es tan buena y fructífera, tan
gratificante y emocionante.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pero
ahora, ahora en este momento, es mía, porque yo ayudé a inspirarla, yo he sido
la partera, la que ayudó a traer esta música al mundo; y en este momento
–igual, me imagino, como en cualquier parto — estoy llorando lágrimas de
regocijo y agobio y orgullo, todo mezclados.</div>
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Tenía razón de iniciar con <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">María
Sabina </i></b>de Cruz de Castro, la pieza es un gesto que nos atrae al
misterio y de la exaltación de todas estas mujeres, de toda esta música
inspirada en ellas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Y de su
DIGNIDAD.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Al final, María Sabina
se marcha con paso firme rumbo a las brumosas montañas de su tierra oaxaqueña
–todavía misteriosas en el México del 2013—y hay una parte de mí que cree que
ella está todavía viva allá, o su espíritu lo está.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Es lo que me dice mi imaginación.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mi imaginación que tiene enormemente que ver con mi proceso
de preparar la interpretación de todas estas piezas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Quien dice que uno no debe imaginarse colores, olas,
personalidades, rabia, deleite, sensualidad, mil tipos de luz, incontables
maneras de volar, cincuenta y siete palabras para la nieve … es de plano loco,
o nunca ha amado.</div>
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Y se vale seguirlo con el <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Retrato
de Malintzin</i></b> de Jack Fortner porque nos lleva más adentro del misterio,
mas siglos atrás.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pero ¿quizás
también ahora mismo?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Esto es México,
en muchos sentidos somos un país no-occidental.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hubo personas a quienes no les gustó esta pieza de Jack –al
menos al principio— pienso que en parte porque recordaron el drama de <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vine
a Comala</i></b>, la arrebatadora mini-ópera que compuso para <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rumor
de Páramo</i></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>En muchos
sentidos esta pieza es completamente distinta: lenta, misteriosa, toma su
bendito tiempo para revelarse, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">opera de
acuerdo con otro reloj</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Es
clave recordar lo que él dice en su nota sobre la obra: es un retrato de
Malintzin vista a través de los ojos de Cortés.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tomo un momento para imaginar esto y me doy cuenta que es
casi inimaginable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Digo, piénsalo:
¿¿qué había pensado ese hombre de esa mujer??<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>La música atrae, anhela, hace amagos de amenazar y
repentinamente se retira a la sombra; se pone ardiente y en un santiamén se
vuelve a retirar.</div>
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La compleja conexión entre Europa,
en particular España, y México –<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">grosso
modo</i>, la conexión entre el Viejo Mundo y el Nuevo—será un <i>leitmotif</i>, un
tema persistente, en este álbum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Espérense, verán …</div>
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La
amenaza implícita –al menos imaginada—en la pieza de Fortner se convierte en
violencia real en la obra de Marcela Rodríguez, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Todo en fin, el silencio lo
ocupaba</i></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unos <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">clústeres </i>enormes, hechos por mis
antebrazos y mis palmos, de que el más enorme es el final, el que termina la
obra, un sonido gigantesco como lo de un órgano que hace vibrar el iPod, el
iPad, el aparato del estéreo, tus propios huesos mientras escuchas, vibrar como
el órgano de la catedral: instrumento que, hace siglos, los fieles creyeron ser la mera Voz
de Dios.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pero luego los clústeres
vuelven delicados, como si respondieran a algún impulso distinto al del poder
bruto y la fuerza de la violencia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Hay momentos de gran lirismo; pero al final son fugaces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Esta pieza es llena de turbulencia e
inquietud, de duda y amenaza.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ese gran
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">clúster </i>al final, ¿es el triunfo del
luminoso espíritu e intelecto de Sor Juana o la amenaza cada vez más presente
de la hoguera a que el maléfico Aguiar y<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Seijas tanto quisiera mandarla?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>No sé; quizás las dos.</div>
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También
tenía razón de seguir esta obra densísima con la de Alba Potes: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Desde
el aire: seis instantes</i></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Todo menos que densa, esta música: texturas tan frágiles que sin embargo
procuran ser a veces hasta brutales, pero también enorme lirismo, todo dentro
de una voz extraordinariamente económica.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Escucho ahora a estas seis micro-piezas –terminadas, hechas, de alguna
manera todo esto ahora es REAL, hecho más permanente por el regio Yamaha C5 y
la asombrosa ingeniería de Roberto y Kenji—y es como ver las fotos del Tsunami
en Japón o el huracán Sandy en EU hace unos meses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Los títulos son cosas así como <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Certidumbre-incertidumbre</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Los
juegos se desvanecen</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Aprisa</i> … El
evocativo acorde de la segunda es la anacrusa –de hecho, la primera y la
segunda piezas en su conjunto son la gran anacrusa— a la tercera (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Los juegos se desvanecen</i>), ay dios mío,
el terrible remordimiento después de esa precipitosa caída, como la caída de
Lucifer, como la caída de un millón de mariposas, qué hacemos con los inocentes
de nuestro mundo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Y la primera
nota del último <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Instante</i> es como el
toque de difuntos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Todo acabado …
y somos nosotros que lo hemos hecho.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Una carga de tristeza casi insoportable en tan pocas notas …</div>
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Sigue
la asombrosa <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nymphalidae</i></b> de Tomás Marco y sí, es el <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">palate-cleanser</i>, lo que limpia el paladar como esos sorbetes a
mediados de una comida de esas legendarias francesas de <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">haute cuisine</i>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Son
tres micro-piezas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Desde un inicio
yo he sospechado que esto es porque mi querido Tomás no pudo escoger una musa
en particular; pero sospecho que también es porque algo en el aspecto formal de
este tríptico le atrajo. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hay una
suerte de afectuoso buen humor en la primera –que incorpora, dice Marco en su
nota, un fondo de canción castellano.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Pero la segunda, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">La mariposa de
Sor Juana</i>, lo dice todo sobre la persistencia, el corazón que a veces duda,
la voz acortada o callada; sobre la tenacidad y la fragilidad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>La tercera es el primer micro-rondó que
en mi vida he visto, ¡y de veras funciona!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Incluso con referencias al más clásico rondó que puedas
imaginar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hay quienes desestiman
esta música por ser demasiado simple pero ¡vamos! es ingeniosa, es conmovedora,
no pretende ser más de lo que es; en fin, a mí me convence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>El propio Marco me dijo de esta pieza, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Como casi siempre sólo trato de alcanzar
una compleja simplicidad o una simple complejidad.”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vale, va.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Helo aquí el hermoso tríptico <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">limpiador de paladar</i> de este álbum y ¡caramba!, lo necesitamos.</div>
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lo que sigue es Griffin, la formidable <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Like water dashed from flowers </i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(como agua arrojada de flores)</i> de
Charles B. Griffin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Es quizás aquí
que la conexión entre México y España golpe más duro.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tan compleja.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>El corazón dolido, la rabia del rechazo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>La evocación del agua que corre como una vena vital a través
de esta obra.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>El altamente
hierático prólogo, el agua que nos lleva dentro del sueño –o la realidad—la
fuerza del pie sobre la tierra o el tablao, la fuerza de la voz.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>En términos formales la pieza dista
poco de la estructura del fandango; y<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>ese momento cuando empieza el zapateado casi te detiene el corazón: lo
digo con la debida modestia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ahora
los pies, el impacto del tacón sobre la madera del improvisado plataforma-escenario,
el arrogante gesto, la energía que nos abruma como una inmensa ola, son todos
evocados por el piano.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ahora todo
esto es en el piano.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ya no hay
efectos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Y al final, después de
toda la rabia y la locura, regresa el agua.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Estamos en el agua.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Dúctil, móvil, impermanente, de alguna manera neutral.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Donde nos lavamos, donde nuestro
corazón está partido y --esperamos— sea remendado.</div>
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en lo correcto, terminando este disco con lo que yo pienso como las tres piezas
extáticas – primero Uribe, luego Barker y Berg al final?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He sabido durante seis meses que este
primer álbum <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Monarca</i></b> tiene que terminar con Berg: es la viva encarnación de terrible
pérdida, de amor y redención.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Es, de
alguna manera, la alquimia de toda creación.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>La vida nos parte el corazón; la música y el arte transforman
ese viaje al abismo en alas que nos llevan al cielo.</div>
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Uribe
ES el vuelo: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">El viaje nocturno de Quetzalpapálotl</i></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>El tronar de las alas, la urgencia de ese impulso
irreprimible de tomar vuelo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>La
ternura y el regocijo de flotar, planeando sobre los termales del cielo de la
medianoche.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Y al final esa <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>frase imposiblemente larga, la que parece
continuar durante una eternidad y que tardé eternidades en saber cómo sostenerla,
la que siempre me trae lágrimas de alegría a los ojos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>¿Y cómo termina, mi queridísimo
Horacio?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Con un perfecto coral: a
la vez pensativo, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">grave </i>(como un
movimiento <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Grave</i> de JS Bach); todavía
anhelando las alturas, con indicios de deleite, y al final, al mero mero final
… ese acorde de séptima que nos hace darnos cuenta de que éste es un <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">contínuum</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Que en realidad no hay un final. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">La
Malinche </i></b>de Barker es el último retrato de Malintzin en este álbum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Difícil imaginarse una evocación más
extraordinaria de triunfo y belleza y, al final, soledad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Los sonajas-cascabeles-ramas vibrantes,
las trompetas, el canto, TODO, en un gradual <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">crescendo </i>hasta usar el instrumento entero, todos los registros,
todos los volúmenes desde el bajo más <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">piano</i>
y más lejano –lo de que pienso, cada vez que toco esta pieza como LAS
PROFUNDIDADES DEL TIEMPO—hasta un registro agudo reluciente, transparente, que a
su vez se metamorfosea en un bajo estruendoso que se convierte en, ¡SÍ!, el
momento enorme y tecnicolor de la pieza, el momento en que los relámpagos abren
las montañas e iluminan todo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ésta
no es alguna humilde mujer sumisa obsequiada para aplacar las posibles rabietas
del conquistador: NO.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He aquí
increíble fortaleza y iniciativa, he aquí ternura; he aquí también
soledad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Porque al final, con ese
unísono Mi-bemol muriéndose hasta al silencio, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">al niente</i>, ella está sola.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Ay dios mío. </div>
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sí, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">El
sueño … el vuelo</i></b> de Berg tiene que cerrar este álbum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Al principio, uno podría creer que aquí
está el bálsamo después de tanta montaña rusa emocional.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Y en cierto sentido, lo es.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pero hay mucho más. Esta es la pieza,
de todas las piezas de este disco, que te rompe el corazón y después te lo
reconstruye.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No te lo repone, te
lo reconstruye; importante esa distinción.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ese primer indicio del vuelo, que se pone casi iracundo y
luego se esfuma.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Y
luego el primer fugaz aleteo de alas que apenas se atreven a imaginarse que
podrían tener la fuerza para volar; y luego ¡SÍ!, exploran el teclado entero,
uniéndolo y juntándolo, primero titubeante y con delicadez y luego con absoluta
autoridad y certeza … y luego todo desvanece en el aire, desaparecido con la
más tenue pista posible de remordimiento, quizás una premonición de
pérdida.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pero luego vuelven las
alas, al inicio no sabemos si es cierto pero SÍ, están de vuelta, están aquí,
nos llevan una vez más casi al estratosfera y luego … y luego, dios mío, viene
ese acorde que más triste no hay, el que me hace llorar cada vez que lo toco,
que de veras me parte el corazón; pero entonces, AÚN ENTONCES, esas alas
aparecen una vez más para enseñarnos el camino hacia el cielo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Es por esto que Berg tiene que ser la
última pista.</div>
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Bueno, pues eso.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Es hasta ahora, ahora por fin, que todo
esto es real.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Todo este trabajo,
toda esta fe, todo esta búsqueda para las alas que me muestren el camino hacia
el cielo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">El sueño … el vuelo</i></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Por esto ahora tengo lágrimas en los
ojos, mis queridos, porque antes de todo cuanto vuelo viene un sueño, y este
sueño por fin está volando.</div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">2013-01-31</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">THIS IS REAL, THIS IS MINE ... FOR NOW. SOON I GIVE IT TO THE UNIVERSE.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">I have to
set this down now, NOW, while it is hot in my mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>English, Spanish, whatever comes first to mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Forgive me …. Maybe something more
coherent will come out later …</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">I am
listening to the pre-master of this first disc of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Canto de la Monarca</i></b> and I
want to tell you all that I was right, I was not crazy, this music is
MAGNIFICENT, it is magnificent all together, IT WORKS.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Other interpreters
-many others I hope— will play this music …<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>because it is SO good, so fruitful, so rewarding, so
exciting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But right now, right
this minute, it is mine, because I helped to inspire it, I have been <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">la partera</i>, the midwife, the one who
helped to bring it into the world; and right now as at all births I suppose, I
am crying tears of mingled joy and exhaustion and pride.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">I was <span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Right</span> to start with Cruz de Castro’s <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">María
Sabina</i></b>, it is a beckoning finger into the mystery and the exhilaration
of all these women, of all this music inspired in them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And in their DIGNITY.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the end, María Sabina walks away
with a firm step into the misty Oaxaca mountains of her homeland –still
mysterious in the México of 2013— and some part of me believes that she is still
alive up there, or her spirit is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>That is my imagining.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
imagining which has a huge amount to do with how I prepared the interpretation
of all these pieces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyone who
says that one shouldn’t imagine colours, waves, personalities, rage, delight,
sensuality, a thousand different kinds of light, countless ways to fly,
fifty-seven words for snow, when one plays music … is just crazy, or has never
loved.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">And it is
right to follow with Jack Fortner’s <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Retrato de Malintzin </i></b>because it beckons
further into the mystery, but centuries ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But maybe now too?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is México, in so many ways we are a non-Western country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some people didn’t like this piece of
Jack’s –at least at first— I think partly because they remembered <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the drama of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vine a Comala </i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(I Came to Comala)</i> the heart-stopping
mini-opera he wrote for <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rumor de Páramo</i></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This piece is completely
different: it is slow, mysterious; it takes its own sweet time to reveal
itself, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">it is operating on another sort
of time</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s critically
important to remember what he says in his note on the piece: that it’s a
portrait of Malintzin <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">seen through the
eyes of Cortés</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I take a
minute to imagine this, and I realize that it’s almost impossible to imagine. I mean, think about it:
what would that man have made of that woman??<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The music beckons, it yearns, it hints at menace and suddenly
withdraws into the shadows, becomes ardent and then in a split second moves
away again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">The complex connection between Europe, particularly Spain, and México –<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">grosso modo</i>, the connection between the
Old World and the New—will become a persistent theme in this album.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wait and see …</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">The menace implicit --or at least imagined-- in Fortner’s piece becomes
real violence in Marcela Rodríguez’ <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">El silencio, en fin, todo lo ocupaba </i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(Silence, in the end, filled everything)</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Huge clusters made by my forearms and
palms, of which the grandest and most enormous is the final one which ends the
piece, a giant sound like that of an organ which makes the iPod, the iPad, the
stereo system, your very bones as you listen, vibrate like the cathedral organ
which, centuries ago, the devout thought was the very Voice of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But then the clusters become delicate
too, responding to some other impulse than that of raw power and the force of
violence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are moments of
great lyricism; but they are, in the end, fleeting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This piece is full of turmoil and doubt and menace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is that great cluster at the end the
triumph of Sor Juana’s luminous intellect and spirit, or the ever more present
menace of the heretics’ bonfire which the malefic Aguiar y Seijas so desired
for her? I don’t know: maybe both.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">I am right also <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>to follow
this densest of pieces with Alba Potes’ <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Desde el aire: Seis instantes </i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(From the Air: Six Instants)</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anything but dense, such fragile
textures which still manage to be brutal and also tremendously evocative. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I listen to these six micro-pieces now –finished,
done, somehow it is all REAL now, made more permanent by the regal Yamaha C5 and the astonishing recording of Roberto and Kenji— and it’s like looking at those photos of the Tsunami in Japan or
of Hurricane Sandy in the US a few months ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The titles are things like <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Certainty-Uncertainty, The games are over, Aprisa (hurried)</i> … The
haunting end of the second is the upbeat –in fact, the first and second both
are the BIG upbeat-- to the third <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(The
Games are over)</i>, oh Jesus, the terrible regret after that precipitous fall,
like the fall of Lucifer, like the fall of a million dead butterflies, Jesus, what do
we do to the innocent of our world?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And the first note of the last piece is like the knell of doom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All done, all finished … and We have
Done This.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Such terrible sadness
in so few notes.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Tomás Marco’s amazing <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nymphalidae </i></b>follows, and yes, it is
the palate-cleanser.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a
kind of affectionate good humour about the first one, which incorporates, says Marco in his note,
an old folksong from Castilla-La Mancha.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the second one, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sor
Juana’s Butterfly</i>, says everything about persistence, about the occasional
doubting heart, the voice cut off or silenced, about tenacity and
fragility.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The third --Adelita-- is the first
micro-rondo I have ever seen in my life, and it Really Works!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With even references to the most
Classical Rondo you can imagine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some
people may dismiss this music, but Oh Come On!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is witty, it is moving, it convinces me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the beautiful palate-cleansing
triptych of the album, and boy do we need it.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Because next comes Griffin, Charlie Griffin’s formidable <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Like
water dashed from flowers</i></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Maybe it’s here that the connection between México and Spain hits
hardest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So complex.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The hurting heart, the rage of
refusal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The evocation of water
that runs through a vital vein through this piece.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The hieratic opening, the water that brings us into the
dream –or the reality—the force of the foot on the earth or on the <i>tablao</i>, the
force of the voice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The piece
formally comes close to the structure of the fandango and the part where the
zapateado begins is heart-stopping.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If I do say so myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now
the feet are all evoked by the piano, the impact of the heel on the wood of the
improvised platform-stage, the arrogant in-your-face gesture, the energy
that overwhelms us like a huge wave; all of this is now in the piano.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No more sound-effects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And at the end, after all the rage and
all the craziness, the water comes back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We are in the water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Ductile, mobile, somehow neutral. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where we cleanse ourselves, where our heart is broken and
where, we hope, it may be mended.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Am I right to end this disc with what I think of as the Ecstatic Pieces –first Uribe, then Barker, then Berg?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve known for six months that this first <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Monarca</i></b>
album must end with Berg: it is the incarnation of terrible loss, heartbreak, love and redemption.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is in some way the alchemy of all
creation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Life breaks our heart;
music and art and dance transform that trip into the abyss into wings which
bear us into the sky.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Uribe IS The Flight: the Night Voyage of Quetzañpapálotl.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The thunder of wings, the urgency of
that irrepressible desire to take flight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The tenderness and joy of floating , planing on the thermals in the
midnight sky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And at the end that
impossibly long phrase, the one that goes on forever and that took me forever
to learn how to sustain, that always brings tears of joy to my eyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And how does he end, my dearest
Horacio?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With a perfect Chorale:
at once grave, thoughtful, still yearning upward, tender, with hints of
delight, and at the very end, the very very end … that seventh chord that makes
us realize this is a continuum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That there
is, really, no end.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Barker’s Malinche is the last portrait of Malintzin on this album.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hard to think of a more extraordinary
evocation of triumph and beauty and, at the end, loneliness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The echoing bells-rattles-vibrating
branches, the trumpets, the song, gradually crescendoing into the use of the
entire instrument, every register, in every volume from the softest most
distant bass –what I think of EVERY time I play this piece, as THE DEPTHS OF
TIME- to a shimmering treble which also metamorphoses into a rumbling bass of
distant thunder which becomes, yes, the enormous, technicolour moment of this
piece, the moment in which lightning cracks over the mountains and illuminates
everything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is no humble submissive
woman given as a gift to assuage the possible tantrums of the conqueror:
NO.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is incredible strength
and resourcefulness, this is tenderness, this is the loneliness too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because at the end, with that unison
E-flat dying away into silence, she is alone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ay dios mío.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">And yes, Berg’s <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">El sueño … el vuelo </i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(The Dream … the Flight)</i> has to end this
album.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the beginning you might
think this is the balm after so much emotional mayhem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And in a way it is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But there is a whole lot more than
that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the piece, of all
the pieces on this album, that breaks your heart and then repairs it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That first hint of wings at the
beginning of the second section, that becomes almost angry and then dies away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then the first faint fluttering, of
wings that barely dare to imagine that they could be powerful enough to fly;
that <span style="text-transform: uppercase;">yes</span>! then explore almost the
entire keyboard, uniting it and bringing it together, first with hesitance and
delicacy and then with absolute certainty and authority … only to have it all
fly away into the air, gone, with the barest hint of regret or a premonition of loss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But then the wings are back … at first
we’re not sure, but YES, they are back, they are here, they bear us once again
almost into the stratosphere and then … and then, dear God, comes that One Sad
Chord that also makes me cry every time I play it, that really does break my
heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The very last part is, yes
again, a comforting voice, long slow movement, no more fluttering now or
beating of wings; but even then, EVEN THEN, those wings appear once more to show
us the way into the sky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is
why Berg must end this recording.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">That’s it, that’s all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
is now, only now, finally now, that this is all real.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All this work, all this faith, all this looking for those
wings showing me the way into the sky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The dream … the flight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is why I am crying right now, people, because before all flight
comes a dream, and this dream is finally flying.</span></div>
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EN EL DF GRABANDO _CdM: MI DOMINGO DE DESCANSO</div>
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Fue un día maratónico ayer: unas
intensas ocho horas de trabajo haciendo toda la edición de toda la música que
hemos grabado en los cuatro días anteriores: ocho de las nueve piezas de este
primer disco de <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Canto de la Monarca</i></b>. Excepto una hora y tantito para comer y
tomar un café, seguimos hasta casi las diez de la noche, Kenji y yo, porque
sentimos que andábamos bien de pila.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Además yo quisiera mucho tener el día de hoy para descansar oído, alma,
mente y cuerpo antes del empuje final de grabar Griffin este lunes 28.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Y ¡LO HICIMOS!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Así que hoy pude tener mi domingo de
descanso aquí en lo que es, al menos temporalmente, mi colonia aquí.</div>
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Todas las mañanas salgo del soleado depto de mi amiga B***
aquí en la Colonia del Valle y voy de caminata rápida al Parque Tlacoquemécatl.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cabe mencionar: estoy muy orgullosa: me
cuesta mucho trabajo que se me peguen esas palabras náhuatl y en este caso han
sido unos cinco años hasta que por fin se me pega este Post-it. </div>
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Llevo una semana aquí y ahora veo muchas de las mismas
personas cada mañana que salgo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Como es de esperar, los domingo hay mucha más gente.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Igual como el domingo pasado y como
ayer, sábado, la cancha de baloncesto está bulliciosa con una partida. Puros
hombres, todos bien altos, al menos para mexicanos, y bien fornidos, parecen en
bastante buena condición.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Como muchos parques aquí y en Europa, éste es cuadrada y
atravesado por varias caminitos al diagonal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Los dos lados más cortos miden una cuadra cada uno y los
lados largos, dos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Entonces, el
parque es bastante grande y muy verde.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Todos los días hay gente allí trabajando: barriendo, podando, atendiendo
a las plantas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>¿Será que la
delegación paga este trabajo?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>De
ser así, ¡qué hermoso!</div>
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A un lado, pero todavía dentro del parque, hay una pequeña
iglesia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Los jueves, un tianguis;
los sábados y domingos varios vendedores ponen sus puestitos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Entre ellos hay una señora que hace
punto.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cuando estuve aquí en
noviembre antes de salir a La Habana, vi sus suéteres y de repente me dije, Ay,
qué bonito será tener un chaleco de punto cuando grabemos en enero! Así que,
totalmente de impulso, me acerco y platicamos y la encargo un chaleco de punto,
con todo y unas trencitas y botones para que sea bien calientito, en un color
amatista oscura, casi púrpura, color uva.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Quedamos en que volvería justo después de los Reyes para recogerlo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>¡Sonsa de mí!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No me di cuenta de lo agobiada que terminaría el año, no
preví que en los hechos sería hasta el 19 que regresaría al DF.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>¡Y aunque sí acordamos un precio –un
muy razonable 450 pesos-- tampoco le había dejado un anticipo, la pobre!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Esa primera mañana, hace una semana,
fui de caminata y la busque.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Allí
estaba.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reestablecimos contacto ¡y
hoy recogí mi hermoso chalequito!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Que de hecho llevo puesto al escribir estas líneas. </div>
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Hay áreas sin plantar, enmarcadas por los arbustos
(¿boxwood?), en que hay mesas de concreto color rojo oscuro con tablas de
ajedrez empotratadas o pintadas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Hasta la fecha no he visto a nadie jugando a ajedrez.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pero tres días seguidos, he visto a una
señora que a distancia parece ser de mediana edad, con su perrito French poodle
amablemente sentado frente a ella.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>En sus manos sostiene un libro, de manera que se ve como si estuviera
leyendo al perro.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>El perro tiene
el aspecto tan atento que podría ser.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Ver a los perros es uno de mis principales placeres durante
mis rápidos circuitos al Parque Tlacoquemécatl.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Muchos de ellos son de tamaño pequeño a mediano y algo
rechonchos, como es de esperar para perros urbanos que –me imagino— pasan gran
parte de su día en un departamento.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pero también he visto a
algunos más grandes: el otro día un <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Setter
</i>irlandés que fue la viva imagen de alegría y emoción, todo orejas y cola
locamente aleteando, de un color Borgoño, corriendo de un lado para otro.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Me hace sonreír porque por feliz y
emocionada que esté de estar aquí por fin grabando esta música, de estar aquí
viviendo temporalmente en esta perla de ciudad –y en tan linda colonia como la
del Valle—sí que extraño a mis dos <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">princesas
</i>Azabacha y Estrella.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Cuando pasé con la señora del punto
la llevé una agarrador de unos que tiene B**, súper prácticos y de bonitos
colores alegres; se están deshaciendo, y se me ocurrió que la señora podría
copiarlos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, dice, estos son de
gancho y yo no hago mucho de eso, pero mi compañera aquí al lado lo hace muy
bien; a ver qué dice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Total que
quedamos en cuatro de esos agarradores –dos para B** y otros dos para mí—¡y
esta vez sí que dejé anticipo!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
esta señora del gancho la acompaña su perro, un cachorro de unos diez meses, cruz
entre Labrador negro y Malinois que tanto me recordó a Azabacha que me hizo
reír a voz alta.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Mil, mil veces prefiero grabar así,
quedarme en casa de una amiga –sobre todo una tan bienamada y respetada como
B**-- que estar en algún hotel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sentirme parte de un barrio, con la vida de la mujer humana y normal que
soy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Pues eso: mi día de descanso.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Al rato me pongo a estudiar la
partitura de la formidable pieza de Charles Griffin, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">like water dashed from flowers </i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(como agua arrojada de flores)</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Me supongo que en pocas palabras se le puede describir como
una fantasía sobre <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">La Sandunga</i>; pero<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>tamaña descripción no haría justicia a
esta pieza, igual como el llamarla una <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">toccata
</i>a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">El sueño … el vuelo </i></b>de Silvia Berg tampoco lo haría.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No dura mucho: queda perfectamente
dentro de los ocho minutos que pedí a los compositores <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Monarca</i></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pero de alguna manera juro que a veces
casi parece tener dimensiones sinfónicas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Y no por estar atiborrada de demasiadas cosas, como a menudo suelen ser
obras de compositores muy jóvenes ansiosos por mostrar su dominio de técnicas
compositivas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, es porque simplemente
la escritura es muy densa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>En un
sentido sí que es programática esta música --cuenta una historia básica, la del
amor rechazada –en otro sentido es igual de abstracta como una sonata de
Beethoven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Y a veces casi igual de
demandante técnicamente.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>También
tiene esto en común con Beethoven: que Charlie Griffin sabe cómo acrecentar y
acrecentar la tensión en términos tanto rítmicos cuanto armónicos, hasta que
llega el inevitable estallido.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Por
eso el principal reto de esta obra es calibrar muy bien su desarrollo, estar
muy consciente de su arquitectura: si no, en lugar de ser catártica para el
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Terminados la <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Semana Monarca</i> del Cervantino y el concierto de Aguascalientes, sentí
que sólo quisiera tocar fue Schubert, los Impromptus Op 90.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Decidí volver a poner en dedos los
primeros dos y terminar de memorizar III y IV y las incorporé en mi régimen al
piano.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>El impulso fue algo así
como el deseo de regresar a los brazos de un amante muy amado y extrañado; tan terriblemente
fuerte que fue hasta después que me pregunté porqué.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Al hacerlo, me di cuenta de que –aparte de el profundo
cariño que tengo a Schubert- la historia de amor rechazada y decepcionada es la
misma que (según yo) cuentan estos cuatro Impromptus, sobre todo el segundo: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">better to have loved and lost than never to
have loved at all </i>– mejor haber amado y perdido que nunca haber siquiera amado.
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Cuando regresé de la caminata matutina B**<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>indagó tantito ese parque en
Internet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Resulta que el terreno
que se convirtió en parque en 1958, <span style="font-family: georgia;">creo que </span>por
el gobierno federal, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>antiguamente
formó parte de una hacienda.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A la
capilla al centro, si bien se lo ha hecho varias remodelaciones, le fechan al
S.XVI, ¡qué cosa!</div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;">Martes 22 de enero (por
fin lo subo en castellano el 27 … ni modo ... )</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;">Queridos todos, No subí
nada anoche porque estuve simplemente demasiada exhausta para hacer más que
engullir la sopa de lentejas que había hecho ayer domingo, después de llegar al
DF el sábado.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Salí de aquí tipo
12:30h y volví unos minutos antes de la medianoche.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fue el día de la PianoMudanza … y por supuesto que todo lo
logístico se hizo pelotas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;">El
piano, que supuestamente iba a llegar al estudio a las 13h, llegó a las CINCO
de la tarde. Después, el técnico-milagro A**C** pasó DOS horas afinando.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Y luego, TRES HORAS con entonación de
martinetes, porque tanto a él como a mí el sonido nos pareció un poco demasiado
brillante.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Y luego, por supuesto, yo
toqué un rato, porque no lo resistí.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Una vez terminada la entonación el piano simplemente sonaba y se sentía
tan ESTUPENDO que no resistí.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mis
piezas de prueba fueron <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">La Malinche</i></b> de Barker, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">El
sueño … el vuelo </i></b>de Silvia Berg y el <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">2º Impromptu </i></b>Op 90 de
Schubert.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Todas estas obras exigen
la más suma delicadeza y sutileza imaginable, y en ciertos momentos un sonido
de gran profundidad y poder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>El
instrumento entero<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>tiene que
hablar, cantar, susurrar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Total
que me saqué de allí hasta después de las once de la noche.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;">Más
esto, que es IMPORTANTÍSIMO y de que me di cuenta hasta la mañana de hoy,
saliendo de la bruma … este trabajo de entonar martinetes es algo de que jamás
se encontrará un sustituto mecánico.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Es un esfuerzo en conjunto entre técnico y pianista: un milagro de oído,
tacto, e intensa concentración por parte de ambos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Y así fue, ayer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>De manera que Schubert y Barker, a altas horas de la noche, fueron en
parte mi agradecimiento a este asombrosamente dotado –y ya bastante bien
capacitado, ha ido a la Escuela Yamaha en Japón tres veces—joven técnico de
pianos, tan humilde y dulce de temperamento, tan riguroso en su trabajo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Joven Y MEXICANO, qué orgullo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;">Este
piano es MAGNÍFICO, sobre todo después del trabajo que le hizo A**.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Toda la respuesta, todo el poder, toda
la delicadeza, toda LA CALIDEZ que quisiera.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tal cual: yo no busco un piano con un sonido frío,
“perfecto”, apto para “música contemporánea”. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>¡GUÁCALA!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;">No.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yo quiero un piano con la transparencia
y sensualidad de Debussy, con el sonido a madera y la <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tactilidad</i> (¿existe esta palabra?) de un fortepiano, con la
desolación y deleite de Schubert, con la cualidad vocal de Emmanuel Bach …
porque la música que estoy grabando en este primer disco <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Monarca</i></b> EXIGE todas estas
cualidades.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aquellos de ustedes,
queridos Amigos y Fans, que han experimentado esta música en vivo y de cerca
saben de que hablo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Así que,
pianísticamente hablando, estoy LOCAMENTE FELIZ.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;">Ay
qué sueños tengo … de un Yamaha C5 en el estudio de Roberto de manera
PERMANENTE, de colegas llegando aquí de NY y de LA para grabar … sobre esto
también tendré que escribir más rato.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;">Por
lo pronto (abajo) pueden ver fotos de la llegada del piano ayer (en realidad el
lunes 21) y de A**C** trabajando.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Favor de tomar un momento para recordar y
apreciar que unos cincuenta de USTEDES, queridos Amigos y Fans, en México y en
EU, ¡¡¡posibilitaron esta PianoMudanza!!!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;">¡Y
el equipo de grabación de Laquijote vuelve a juntarse!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kenji Calderón Miyamoto, 2º ingeniero
para SOLO RUMORES y que pocos meses después se marchó a la Steinhardt School de
la NYU para hacer su maestría --como becario Fulbright-García Robles, ¡¡QUÉ
ORGULLO!! – está de vuelta en México y en el estudio de Roberto.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Y mi querido Roberto de Elías,
ingeniero milagroso.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Fotos más
rato, aguántanme por fa’ … )<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>¿Jamás grabaría con otro?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Nunca digas nunca, pero lo dudo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Es tan simpático, tan cariñoso, con un par de oídos como pocos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sigue aprendiendo y evolucionando,
acaba de inventar otro microfoneo para el piano; inició como músico y por lo
tanto lee partituras; ¿qué más digo?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Él ha sido pionero en esa aproximación a la capacitación de ingenieros de
audio en México y en Colombia y de hecho Kenji es uno de sus alumnos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pocas gracias ha recibido por este
trabajo: los viejos prejuicios mueren lentamente pero quizás --¡ojalá!-- esto empiece
a cambiar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Difícil que la vieja
guardia acepte que la buena ingeniería de audio puede ser una carrera académica,
que el ingeniero sea más que un técnico venido a más.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Espero que los vientos del cambio estén soplando aquí …</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;">La
noticia de hoy (martes 22) es que A**C** vino de nuevo un par de horas, para
revisar los unísonos … y luego ¡¡GRABÁBAMOS!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Marcela Rodríguez y Carlos Cruz de Castro.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Capaz que quiere hacer otra toma de la
segunda parte rápida de Cruz de Castro mañana … ya veremos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oído demasiado cansado ahora para poder
tomar una buena decisión.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;">¡Un
enorme abrazo a todos, queridos Amigos y Fans!</span></div>
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