Tiki Central / Other Events / La Paloma. Yearning. Worldwide PREVIEW Summer Festival Watermusic
Post #373594 by hkwberlin on Mon, Apr 14, 2008 8:40 AM
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Dear Tiki Central, Wassermusik A song to freedom – from Mexico to the Reeperbahn, from Graceland to Hawaii: The song of the dove is a piece of music that just about everyone knows. In the 150 years of its career, it has been interpreted, rearranged, recorded, and translated into dozens of languages and cultures – more than 2,000 times. Its origin was already global: the composer of “La Paloma”, Sebastián de Yradier was a Basque who came to the Caribbean via detours. The song was sung in a broader framework for the first time in 1865 in the National Theater in Mexico City. The song is always heard in the context of the romance of seafaring – and not only in Germany as interpreted by Hans Albers, Freddy Quinn, and Curd Jürgens; it has also been recorded by Elvis Presley, Dean Martin, Charlie Parker, and the Marine Chorus of the Black Sea Fleet; and the Soweto Gospel Choir had its version in its repertoire of longing.The avant-garde musician Kalle Laar’s Trikont label has already anthologized the sixth CD with versions of “La Paloma”; now follow a book published by marebuchverlag and the film “La Paloma. Sehnsucht. Weltweit”. La Paloma. Sehnsucht. Weltweit. is a preview of the new Summer Festival WATERMUSIC – open-air beside the Spree River House of World Cultures/Haus der Kulturen der Welt |