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Monday, April 20, 2020
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Un Panal de Rical Miel: Musical Composition
Un Panal de Rica Miel
(feat. Alberto Grau, Luimar Arismendi & Gonzalo Grau)
(Las Moscas)
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Alberto Grau
Composer Alberto Grau (1937) is one of the best known contemporary musicians in Venezuela. He is know for being a chorus conductor. However, Grau has also become a leading composer in Latin-America. In 1967 Grau founded the Schola Cantorum of Caracas. Currently, he conducts the Choral Ave
Fénix founded in 2003.
The musical accompaniment of Un Panal de Rica Miel
in the recording above, as Talia so accurately identified it earlier,
sounds like cha cha cha. Please, watch this master class with dance
teachers Gladys Gonzalez and Antonio Sanchez. They explain in detail how
cha cha cha is danced. Feel free to apply this rhythm to your phrase.
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Cha Cha Cha Master Class
Gladys Gonzalez and Antonio Sanchez
Monday, April 13, 2020
Un Panal de Rica Miel: Literary History
Aesop (620 – 564 BCE)
Aesop was a Greek fabulist and storyteller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables. Although his existence remains unclear and no writings by him survive,
numerous tales credited to him were gathered across the centuries and in
many languages in a storytelling tradition that continues to this day.
Many of the tales are characterized by animals and inanimate objects
that speak, solve problems, and generally have human characteristics.
Gaius Julius Phaedrus was a 1st-century CE Roman fabulist and the first versifier of a collection of Aesop's fables into Latin in the 1st century CE. At about the same time Babrius turned the fables into Greek. A 3rd-century author, Titianus, is said to have rendered the fables into prose in a work now lost. Avianus (of uncertain date, perhaps the 4th century) translated 42 of the fables into Latin elegiacs. The 4th-century grammarian Dositheus Magister also made a collection of Aesop's Fables, now lost. Aesop's fables were tranlated into Frech by Roger L'Estrange in 1692 and into English by George Fyler Townsend in 1887.
This particular fable in Spanish, Un panal de rica miel, is attributed to Spanish writer Félix María de Samaniego who published his Fábulas from 1781–1784. They were one hundred and fifty-seven in number. Un panal de rica miel is one of the most popular ones. Samanigo's fables were inspired in Aesop's and Phaedrus' fables among others. Aesop's Fables continued to be revised and translated through the
ensuing centuries, with the addition of material from other cultures,
so that the body of fables known today bears little relation to those
Aesop originally told.
"The Flies and the Honey-Pot"
Explicating Aesop's Fables: "The Flies and the Honey-Pot" (Story #28)
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The Flies and The Honey Pot. 27 March 2017 (last updated) Flies were
attracted to a honey jar. They ate greedily. But, their feet and wings
got covered with the honey so they could not get free. They died. Too
much of a good thing can be bad. A number of Flies
were attracted to a jar of honey. They entered and ate greedily.
fablesofaesop.com
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THE FABLE
Un panal de rica miel / A Honeycomb of Tasty Honey
By Félix María de Samaniego (1745 - 1801)
A un panal de rica miel
To a honeycomb of rich honey
dos mil Moscas acudieron,
Two thousand flies came,
que por golosas murieron
who died of a sweet tooth
presas de patas en él.
their legs tied to it
Otras dentro de un pastel
Other ones inside a cake
enterró su golosina.
buried their candy
Así, si bien se examina,
So, if well examined
los humanos corazones
the human hearts
perecen en las prisiones
they will perish in the prisions
del vicio que los domina.
of the vice that dominates them.
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Musicalized version of Felix Samaniego's fable
Music: Alberto Grau.
Chorale: Schola Juvenil de Venezuela.
Conductor: Luimar Arismendi
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
El Manisero / The Street Vendor: Merging Dance Phrases
Students' Work
At this point students merge the two previous phrases into one becoming a total of 32 moves.
Monday, April 6, 2020
El Manisero / The Peanut Vendor : Dance Vocabulary
El Manicero
El Manicero - Entrevoces , Havana , Cuba
Founded in 1981, Coro Entrevoces is known for their unparalleled
performances of music of all periods and styles, including everything
from Spanish, English, and Italian Renaissance polyphony to contemporary
music, spirituals, Latin American and Cuban folk music in general.
LINK: Entrevoces Chorus
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Maria Antonieta Pons
Actress and dancer Maria Antonieta Pons who appeared in dozens of
films from Mexico’s lauded “Golden Age” of cinema. Pons was born in Havana, Cuba. Pons was regarded as one of the great beauties of Mexican cinema,
with alabaster skin, jet black hair and a shapely figure. In many of her
roles she played dancers and was an exponent of Caribbean and tropical
dances popular at the time, particularly the rhythms that came to be
known as the rhumba. At the time, Cuban women were considered the highest exponent of
these dances, and her countrywomen Ninon Sevilla, Mary Esquivel, Rosita
Fornes and Amalia Aguilar, among others, often danced on camera with
Pons.
LINK:
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Griselle Ponce workshop salsa on2
Griselle Ponce is considered one of the top female dancers and choreographers in the world. Griselle was born for the stage! Griselle was raised absorbing the sounds that emanated in and around the beautiful island of Puerto Rico. From an early age, Griselle started conquering many stages and hearts.
Griselle Ponce / El Manicero
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El Manicero - La Pachanga
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Pachanga is a dance school founded in the city of Rosario, Santa Fe Province, Argentina, in 2003. The school teaches all Latin popular dances such as salsa, rumba, bachata, mambo, etc.
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
El Manisero / The Peanut Vendor: Origin and History
LINK:
The real story behind "El Manisero"
By Rafael Lam
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Translation
El Manisero
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/el-manisero-peanut-vendor.html-0
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/el-manisero-peanut-vendor.html-0
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/el-manisero-peanut-vendor.html-0
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The real story behind "El Manisero"
By Rafael Lam
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Translation
El Manisero
The Peanut Vendor
Versions: #1#2
Peanuts...
Peanuts...
If you want to have fun by the mouth
Eat up your/a peanut cornet
How toasty and rich it is
You can't ask for anything more
Oh, little housewife, don't let me go
Because you're going to regret it afterwards
And it's going to/And it'll already be too late
The Peanut Vendor goes/leaves
The Peanut Vendor goes/leaves
Little housewife, don't lie down to sleep/don't go to sleep
Without eating up your peanut cornet
When the street/road is lonely
Little housewife of my heart
The peanut vendor sings its *street cry
And if the young girl listens to its singing
She calls out from her balcony
Give me some of your peanuts...
Give me some of your peanuts...
'Cause tonight I won't be able to sleep
Without eating up my peanut cornet
I will go/leave...
I will go/leave...
The Peanut Vendor
Versions: #1#2
Peanuts...
Peanuts...
If you want to have fun by the mouth
Eat up your/a peanut cornet
How toasty and rich it is
You can't ask for anything more
Oh, little housewife, don't let me go
Because you're going to regret it afterwards
And it's going to/And it'll already be too late
The Peanut Vendor goes/leaves
The Peanut Vendor goes/leaves
Little housewife, don't lie down to sleep/don't go to sleep
Without eating up your peanut cornet
When the street/road is lonely
Little housewife of my heart
The peanut vendor sings its *street cry
And if the young girl listens to its singing
She calls out from her balcony
Give me some of your peanuts...
Give me some of your peanuts...
'Cause tonight I won't be able to sleep
Without eating up my peanut cornet
I will go/leave...
I will go/leave...
The Peanut Vendor
Versions: #1#2
Peanuts...
Peanuts...
If you want to have fun by the mouth
Eat up your/a peanut cornet
How toasty and rich it is
You can't ask for anything more
Oh, little housewife, don't let me go
Because you're going to regret it afterwards
And it's going to/And it'll already be too late
The Peanut Vendor goes/leaves
The Peanut Vendor goes/leaves
Little housewife, don't lie down to sleep/don't go to sleep
Without eating up your peanut cornet
When the street/road is lonely
Little housewife of my heart
The peanut vendor sings its *street cry
And if the young girl listens to its singing
She calls out from her balcony
Give me some of your peanuts...
Give me some of your peanuts...
'Cause tonight I won't be able to sleep
Without eating up my peanut cornet
I will go/leave...
I will go/leave...
The Peanut Vendor
Maní
Peanuts...
Maní
Peanuts...
Si te quieres por el pico* divertir
If you want to have fun by the mouth
Cómete un cucuruchito de maní
Eat up a peanut cornet
Que calientico y rico está
How warm and rich it is
Ya no se puede pedir más
You can't ask for anything more
Ay! caserita no me dejes ir
Oh, little housewife, don't let me go
Porque después de vas a arrepentir
Because you're going to regret it afterwards
Y va a ser muy tarde ya
And it'll already be too late
Manisero se va
Peanut vendor is leaving
Manisero se va
Peanut vendor is leaving
Caserita no te acuestes a dormir
Little housewife don't go to sleep
Sin comerte un cucurucho de maní
Without eating up your peanut cornet
Cuando la calle sola está
When the street is empty
Casera de mi corazón
Housewife of my heart
El manisero entona su pregón
The peanut vendor sings his street cry
Y si la niña escucha su cantar
And if the young girl listens to his singing
Llama desde su balcón
She calls out from her balcony
Dame de tu maní
Give me some of your peanuts...
Dame de tu maní
Give me some of your peanuts...
Esta noche no voy a poder dormir
Tonight I won't be able to sleep
Sin comerme un cucurucho de maní
Without eating up my peanut cornet
Me voy
I am leaving...
Me voy
I am leaving...
* pico literally means beak. It is used here as a euphemism for mouth.
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El Manisero intepreted by Rita Montaner, Antonio Machin & Don Aspiazu's Band
This is a classic son that emerged in 1928. Written by Moses Simon for Rita Montaner, a Cuban singer, pianist and actress. In Cuban parlance, she was a
vedette, and was well known in Mexico City, Paris, Miami and New York,
where she performed, filmed and recorded on numerous occasions. El Manicero was a huge hit for her in Paris, breaking Cuban music for the first time in Europe.
Rita Montaner
Antonio Machin
In 1930, Don Aspiazu's Havana Orchestra, with their singer Antonio Machin, took the song to New York. Machin, a Cuban singer and musician, sang
it with a slow rumba rhythm, with dancers dancing choreographed rumbas
on stage and it became the top selling record in the US in 1931; the
first Cuban piece of music to chart in America; it was the first million record seller for a Cuban artist.
Don Aspiazu - La Havane 1933 - "Rhumba"
This was filmed at the Paramount Studios in October 1932 in Joinville, near Paris. At the same time the movie Esperame was being filmed with tango idol Carlos Gardel and the Don Azpiazu orchestra.
The singers were bongo player Jose "Chiquito" Socarras and left handed guitar player Jose Pereira , trumpets Julio Cueva and Pedro Via, violin was Emilio Hospital, percussion Pedro Telleria, Lozano Morejon, piano, saxes and clarinets, Pedro Guida and Francisco Gonzalez, Alvaro de la Torre, drums, Teddy Henriquez, bass and Don Azpiazu, director.
The dancer was 18 year old Alicia Parla "Mariana." She caused a sensation in Europe dancing for the kings and royalty. She even taught the King of England an Josephine Baker to dance the "Rumba".
Son was confusing for Americans since they thought son was a mispelling for "song" so they replaced it with the term "rhumba" with the consonant "h" in between to make it for exotic.
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Real Street Vendor in Havana
Although this was labelled a rumba, El Manisero was in reality a son pregón, namely, a song based on a street-seller's cry. Lysett Perez, a street peanut vendor still uses El Manisero to make a living in Havana, today, as she sings the pregón (cry).
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