Marisol García published in The Third an article about the book Rolando Alarcón: song on the night , Manuel Vilches Carlos Valladares, recently published by Editorial Quimantú.
exactly 37 years ago, also a February 4, the ulcer that plagued the last years of Rolando Alarcón caused a bloodletting that ended his life. The news of his death caused a national impact, as befitted one of the leading figures of the New Chilean Song author of at least three classics of our popular song: If we are Americans, Doña Javiera Carrera sirilla My grandmother danced. Altered its programming multiple radios as a tribute, long lines accompanied the coffin and President Salvador Allende came to the funeral.
is striking contrast between the public recognition then and now there is little awareness about its importance. Rolando Alarcón. The song in the night (Editorial Quimantú ) is the first biography of the singer, assuming that unjust oblivion. "The title refers to a discography practically lost, despite its many successes," said the journalist Manuel Vilches, who along with musician Carlos Valladares interviewed more than 50 nearby to account for his prolific way professional and human warmth. "It seems strange that there is still no consistent attempt to recognize his work and his contribution to music in Chile. A 'modest primary school teacher' as he defined himself, who had enormous merit, but never was a friend of fuss."
The de Alarcón was "a simple folk high value", as defined in the book Angel Parra. Nor are saved as respondents praised Eduardo Carrasco (Quilapayún), Camilo Fernandez and Pedro Messone. The latter, who popularized his songs as a girl goes to the boat, noted that "his songs have become anthems, have school." Eighteen
Albums thicken a discography Cuncumén worked with the group, singer Silvia Urbina (in the duo Simon and Roland) and, above all, as soloist. His observation alternated cantautori landscape and customs (lad you'll paddle, Doña Javiera Carrera) with social and political reflection. The vicissitudes of the international left at the time were reflected in a letter to Che Guevara or The Ballad of Ho Chi Minh, but the musician achieved its most exciting lines in allusion to the desire for freedom and equality of ordinary people, like Man (winner Festival de Viña 1970) or the famous If we are Americans, closer to the feeling that the great proclamation.
This biography does not dodge some of the major controversies which enveloped his work, including radio censorship of songs like They forgot the country, under the Frei government, and homophobia within the hierarchy of the PC. In his memoirs, It lived and fought, Luis Corvalan recognized "among my sins I have the opposite of me on one occasion, the income advantage of a valuable artist just because it was sissy." Manuel Vilches believe that Alarcon had the talent but not the desire of an artist destined for great fame. "It was a simple man, a teacher, whom the complaint was made provocative never comfortable. He took sides with many causes and very early, but was not for him the provocation or the pose of art. He was also a very cross in his friendships, little dogmatic ". The detailed biography in bookstores today, is a tribute to that rare combination of grandeur and simplicity.
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