Classics and mambo without mass

IT WASN’T DISRESPECT, IT WAS CULTURE. Everything was happening from 6:30 in the evening, I don’t know how I felt the usual heat of the day despite the crowd, there were only a few places left to stand.

It wasn’t Juan Luis Guerra, it was the day before in the stadium, here the FULL FLOW WAS SUPER TOTAL. I’m late to the traditional “Old dam Kasko”. From the side corner of the religious space “I SAW HER, SHE WAS MY MUSIC FRIEND”, sweaty, energetic, dressed in white, with unusual strength, her right hand went up, down, right, left, making a small air vortex and suddenly with “with a stick in the right hand” made gestures, accompanied by the left hand, asking them, IN A SOUNDLESS VOICE, to slowly lower their tone. His gesture was like that of The master painter gives the last stroke with the brush to his work. That was the image she projected to me, as the musical notes played, lowering the tone, until they fell asleep.

That “musical dream” was interrupted by “DESPELOTE” (it is not a vulgar term, but the reaction of the present youth and those sorted by age who thundered the walls of the Holy House with our applause. Several classical melodies followed, so absent from our Media. Seems like that she chose them to put the audience to sleep and bring them out of their JUNE DREAM softened by air conditioning. At the end of each tune she turned, wiped the sweat from her face, smiled, thanked, and like someone leading an army in the middle of a battle, told each group, according to their musical instrument, to stand up, and so the public returned “roaring like a volcano in full eruption”. (Violins, flutes applauded, double basses, horns, cellos, etc.

Honestly, it hurt me that I didn’t bring a huge bouquet of roses, for her virtuosity TEACHER ELEKTRA CASTILLO. She may have doctorates, masters degrees and trophies, but as I talked and managed to convince her the day I took her to the ZONE DE GATHERINGS radio program, she is a TEACHER, not a DIRECTOR, not only because of the instruments she plays, nor because of her mastery of the Pentagram , nor because of his quality in directing Choirs and orchestras, but for his GIFT submit to theirs Guidelines for choirs and musical groups“. The presence of the Deputy Minister of Culture was a guarantee that culture in Panama was growing stronger that afternoon. A stronghold in our youth (musicians and spectators). Elektra was handed over to the national organization of youth symphony orchestras (up to 26 years old). ).All free, with instruments that are lent to them It is exciting to see and listen to young people of both sexes without a cigarette in their hand, without torn pants, without a “cold in their hand” immersed in activity Educational, cultural, good customs and, above all, professional training since these needs allow them to form with a strong and defined character.

Typical melodies “stuck them in the oven”, when they would resonate violins, flutes, clarinets, cellos, cellos, trombones, saxophones, basses, slide trombones, etc. were not Pindin’s instruments.

The environment became a Tableno Measured carnivalespecially with adults who sang: Guararé, Julia, Alla on the Camino Real, Get up, boy, When Perica wants the parrot to go to mass, chencha loves Sebastián, chencha loves him again…

The closure was nostalgic for many, besides nostalgia, it made it possible to ease the pain of bunions, that is The Golden Age of Seal Face. A master with a broad sense of winning over his audience echoed several MAMBOS DAMASA PEREZ PRADA “EL REY DEL MAMBO”. The one that caused the “breakout” was Mambo No. 8. It is spectacular that Elektra trained her boys (as) to live the melody and several times in accordance with the content of the mambo they got up and went shouting numbers from 1 to 8 in musical groups, moreover they stopped with the instrument in hand and danced in pairs , that was the ending of the movie. Many of us yearn for Damas Perez Prado’s Guttural Scream… ugh… Aaaaaaaa…… Let’s hope the Minister of Culture can screen this educational musical gem on Channel 11. It has become clear that the name TEACHER ELEKTRA CASTILLOHe is not currently carved in marble, but IN THE CULTURAL PENTAGRAM OF PANAMA, since he not only directs the POLYPHONIC CHOIR, but also leads part of our youth at the national level towards the paths of decency, good habits, self-love in search of his artistic vein and authentic Panamanianness, because so a homeland is also created.

As I was leaving, someone tapped me on the shoulder and said: “Beto, Elektra, throw, throw! …I answered: “Yes, BOTO IS!, but not as LA LUPE, but as a TEACHER as she is”.

Elektra: before your VIRTUOSISM and boys, I take off my hat, put my left hand behind my waist and bow respectfully.