The Jan. 23 began to spread the information that the government area of \u200b\u200bthe Arts in Madrid would promote an investigation into whether Agustín Lara is the true composer of chotis Madrid, after the book 1910-2010 Gran Via, the writer Raul Guerra Garrido wrote that the real author was a English musician in exile in Mexico, Rafael Escalona. Not knowing that this was a literary fiction, the story was welcomed by the council Milagros Hernandez, Izquierda Unida, who announced he would proceed to investigate the archives of the city to see if there is information. But immediately, Belén Martínez, director of Archives, Museums and Libraries, said the research had been done to no avail.
"Rafael Escalona" is just a fictional character invented by those attending a literary gathering. As he wrote the English journalist Isabel Hernandez, "Rafael Escalona did not exist ... it is a literary trick devised years ago at a literary gathering, which also assists Raul Guerra Garrido, and is author of the novel La Gran Via is New York, where you do not see this story. Our friend suggested he participate as co-author of Gran Vía 1910-2010 and came up with was a story worthy of a story ... "(" De Oropeza Escalona, \u200b\u200bthe story of a chotis ", January 26, at www. eldigitalcastillalamancha.es).
But this story is being exploited by more and more people to doubt the authorship Agustín Lara.
The Madrid composer course
The Country believed this story and they published two days after "The poor man lived like rats with his sick wife, whom he adored and consumed saw their condition. To liven up the bad shot was going, to remind you of happy years in Spain, he composed the famous chotis. So war has, in the original letter said 'when we return to Madrid,' instead of 'when you come to Madrid', as altered, presumably, the very Agustín Lara ... Needless to say, like many other black-anonymous workers the pay of the glory of another, of history, Rafael Escalona and his wife, according to the book, died poor, exiled from home and without recognition. "(25 January).
However, the next day, Guerra Garrido reported a very different story from what appears in his book. It is no longer Rafael Escalona Rafael Oropesa but the author of Madrid. Surely, the writer came in this couple of days, Oropesa family contact, so that changed history in his book appeared. Now says ( El Universal, 26 January) that Lara "commissioned and paid for" this song to Rafael Oropesa, director of the English Association Madrid. But then there is already a poor musician without fame: Oropesa was a great composer, known in Mexico that made records, worked on XEW, accompanied various artists and played with his orchestra at the bullring in the Condesa. Not only was a notable composer, was also a composer complex. His band consisted of musicians from the Banda del Ayuntamiento de Madrid and left Spain in 1939 en route to Mexico. But do not take stock miserable musicians were so remarkable that, as the writer Francisco Martinez de la Vega: "The quality of the Banda Madrid was so high ... that the various components were added to the National Symphony Orchestra and the Opera de Bellas Arts ( The English exile in Mexico, 1939-1982 ). One of these musicians was Juanito Arteta, who later became the star trumpeter of Perez Prado's orchestra.
The "evidence"
Guerra Garrido Francisco Franco assumed that Lara was charged with the song, but as he did not know Spain, Oropesa asked who wrote it. As the song was so good, Franco gave Lara a house in Granada. Why not presented it in Madrid? Why gave it until 1964? What year commissioned the song? "In 1948, when he was already dead Oropesa? Why else wrote Oropesa, who died in 1942, Lara's premiere until 1948? Why Lara said he was never commissioned by the dictator?
What are the proofs of these statements? The journalist Peter Montoliu, who has known the family Oropesa, wrote in Madridiario (January 26), which Oropesa sent letters to his family in Spain, which were destroyed for fear they were discovered by the government. According Mintoliú:
"The oral testimonies collected Oropesa family a letter, which was destroyed as everything related to Rafael for fear of the Franco dictatorship. In it, this had he had written a theme chotis Madrid with his wife, who had remained in the English capital with their nine children, in another letter recounted that he had met Agustín Lara. Could you sell this chotis Lara? It is not unreasonable. According to the family, which has always heard was that chotis Madrid, Rafael was able to send money to Spain and lived themselves with facility until October 12, 1944 died at age 48 due to an aneurysm. "
The tests are: Oropesa who wrote a theme chotis Madrid to his wife that never came to Mexico, so could not return to Madrid and met Agustín Lara. It is noteworthy that the family Oropesa and Madrid daily, give the wrong year of death of Oropesa, did not die in 1944 but in 1942, just 3 years after arriving in Mexico, assures the musician John S. Garrido, a contributor to the Encyclopedia of Mexico .
But now, the family Oropesa said that letters his grandfather claimed he was the composer of Madrid. How does something like this when Oropesa said chotis had not even released? According to the family by the English composer, Madrid "was common knowledge among the English exiles in Mexico." This statement has no value because it can be the same current invention an unsubstantiated rumor documentary. But, undoubtedly, is a rumor that comes from the suspicion that a Mexican English has written a song.
What I was told for a long time, was that Lara bought his English songs the musicians exiled by the Civil War (1936-1939). Supposedly, Lara would have taken advantage of the poverty of the English to buy music. However, Lara English suite was composed almost entirely between 1932 and 1936, when the war had not even begun.
English suite are 31 songs written over 34 years
"Agustín Lara wrote without knowing Madrid Spain? Yes, and he composed many songs between 1931 and 1965. Spain was one of his obsessions, read many books about that country and had an encyclopedia in which he stressed every detail on various cities of the peninsula. Since I read the novel in 1931 The magic of Seville, the Uruguayan novelist Carlos Reyles. Since then decided to make a series of songs to different regions of Spain. He wrote to Seville, Granada, Murcia, Navarra, Toledo, Valencia and Madrid. But Madrid had already made a paso doble in 1934, before the famous Madrid. What was the point of buying a chotis? Pasodobles composed bullfighters, songs that were sung by English singer Lola Flores and María Conesa.
How did you write this letter? Lara read on Spain, and had composed many songs about this country, knew the English living in Mexico. As I really wanted to know Madrid, was documented over the city. There is a question that is not doing his critics and perhaps most important: Is not it more difficult to get the music from another country? It's much harder to make a point to talk about a city. And that musical ease is a skill that no one has discussed Lara.
Clarita Martinez was the day that Lara composed Madrid
In the book My girlfriend, sadness (Oceano-Government of Veracruz) we write Guadalupe Loaeza and I, there is the testimony of Martínez Clarita, couples the composer between 1947 and 1953. Clarita reports that Lara always wanted to visit Spain and, finally, in 1948, was invited to work in Madrid. His joy was so great that he composed a song to that city, so one night came home with his friend, Rudolph Chamaco Sandoval, and together they worked on the schottische. Sandoval was a journalist and screenwriter, and repeatedly Lara helped to refine and revise their songs. After a while, Lara Habo Clarita to come down to hear his new song, Madrid.
Unfortunately for Augustine, Spain denied a visa and could not go to Europe at that time. However, given that part to the versatile Emerald a singer XEW, for the premiere on radio. And later, was given to Ana Maria Gonzalez, a singer from Xalapa, to take her brand new to Madrid. But as Anne wrote in her memoirs, Lara did not have much excitement when it opened: "He brought as calling card numbers he had brought to Agustín Lara a miracle: it was a chotis ... This issue, as you will be guessing - is the chotis Madrid. I do not think I Augustine or less! we thought that would be the most successful number in the Old World. "Hopefully in Madrid
be investigated well, especially to recognize a great English composer, Rafael Oropesa, who himself owed a great tribute to his musical work. The English have even forgotten when he made a most important work. But that honor should not be done at the expense of the work of Agustín Lara.
Unlike today, two locals, musician and lyricist Richard F. Yust López Delgado wrote a Mexican chotis entitled, to thank you typed Lara Madrid. It was an act of courtesy on the part of Madrid should not forget:
a long time that we must account for Madrid heart
quoting an account of income do not pay a million;
the Mexican chotis the Cibeles has mareao,
the "Madrid, Madrid, Madrid" by Agustin Lara has gone dibujao.
Mexican: I love you, Petén, as a brother;
Mexican: I invite you to make a chotis hand in hand;
Mexico: even if you're a bit far from Madrid,
in our hearts we felt the illusion that embadurnao you Chamberí.
One day he came to be the master of fine chotis Madriles an import
no longer want to boogie woogie in no more scrap Madriles safoxón,
is the Mexican chotis which Madrid has rage, the same Nicanora
and Cyprian are Flower Pick it up.
chotis as Marcao This craft, very finolis servant
shipped. Mexican
: thank you very much for your chotis to Madrid, we are empataos
we are sensitive
same ones over there than here.
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