The Agustín de la Hoz House of Culture was the stage chosen by the San Ginés Polyphonic Choir Association to celebrate the closing concert on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of its founding.
The event, which started at around seven in the afternoon last Saturday, was followed by the large audience that filled the permitted capacity, and where the latecomers had to follow it outside the venue.
The choir, directed by Professor Elías Roldán, masterfully performed a selection of the works that throughout this year have been sung on different stages on the occasion of the 50th anniversary, and some of them were accompanied on the piano by Professor Javier Díaz. The concert began with the composition of Tomás Luis de la Victoria 'Ave María', continuing with the 'Ave Verum Corpus' by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, followed by the 'Caminito del Indio' by Atahualpa Yupanqui, 'Te quiero', the famous poem by the Uruguayan writer Mario Benedetti with music by the Argentine Alberto Favero.
The choir members took a tour of different genres from poetry, zarzuela, opera or rock, compositions where the members of the choir followed the instructions of the director Elías Roldán, with very well-matched voices and they all sounded as one, a work that the public at all times supported with their resounding applause.
Also in the concert were heard other great works such as 'The Hebrew Choirs' by Nabuco by Giuseppe Verdi, 'América' (West side Story) by Leonard Bernstein or the well-known composition by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, 'We are the World'. The concert featured the collaboration of two outstanding sopranos, Lorena Torres and Sheyla Rizo, who were highly applauded by the public in each of their interventions.
Before ending the concert, the president, Andrés Martín, addressed those present, thanking them for the support received in each of the events programmed on the occasion of the 50th anniversary and that the San Ginés Polyphonic Choir Association will continue working on new projects to be able to present them in the new year that is approaching.
With the 'Salve de Gigantes y Cabezudos' by the composer Fernán Caballero with the public standing, the grand finale to the closing of the 50th anniversary of the San Ginés Polyphonic Choir Association was put on.