The Timple House-Museum in Teguise, complying with the programming for the current year, offered a concert last Friday night by three outstanding young timple players representing a new generation of concert performers.
The students of the Conservatory of Music of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; Sofía Pérez, Aarón Vera and Norberto Arrocha performed in the concert hall of the House-Museum, which was overwhelmed by the attendance of the public who came to support the young people in what would be their first concert.
Young people, friends and committed students prepared with great enthusiasm what was going to be their debut: Sofía Pérez, a resident of La Vegueta, Aarón Vera from Haría and Norberto Arrocha from La Gería, students of music and interpretation who have not yet had the necessary time to compose their own compositions, based their concert on interpreting their favorite timple players: José Antonio Ramos, Benito Cabrera, Domingo Rodríguez El Colorao and Germán López.
Despite their youth and the short time they have been studying, their enthusiasm transcended the stage, infecting the audience who rewarded them with resounding applause. At one point in the concert, they invited two soloists, José Arrocha and José García, to come on stage and perform some folias.
Young people like Sofía, Aaron and Norberto reside in Gran Canaria because they cannot continue their studies in Lanzarote, and as they said, it is a real drain on the family economy, including the uprooting from the environment where they were born.
Lanzarote, as some leaders say, is the third capital of the Canary Islands, but young people have to go abroad to prepare for the future they have chosen because nothing is being done by the competent administrations, while families in Lanzarote find it increasingly difficult for their children to study and have the same rights as the Canarians of the capital islands.
For Sofía, Aarón and Norberto, this first contact with the public will not be easily forgotten because of the applause and the expressions of affection received from all those present, including the Councilor for Culture of the Teguise City Council, Francisco Javier Díaz, who very kindly before and after the concert was interested in their studies and projects, giving them as a souvenir the poster announcing the concert as a souvenir.