The Museo Universidad de Navarra has presented the concert to be offered this Friday by the Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra, the Orfeón Pamplonés and the Coral de Cámara de Pamplona, an event that represents a cultural alliance with three of the most prestigious musical institutions with more experience and prestige in Navarra. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. and there are still some seats available. This event will open the V edition of the cycle Cartographies of Musicwhich this year deals with the musical creation of the Group of Eight.

The presentation was attended by Jaime García del Barrio, general director of the Museum; José Manuel Garrido, director of Performing Arts and Music; Félix Palomero, managing director of the Baluarte Foundation; José Trigueros, conductor of the Symphonic Orchestra of Navarra; Igor Ijurra, conductor of the Orfeón Pamplonés; and David Gálvez, conductor of the Pamplona Chamber Choir.

The concert will feature the Sinfonietta in D minor by Ernesto Halffter and Jesus Christ on the Cross by Fernando Remacha. This is the first time in history that the Orfeón Pamponés and the Pamplona Chamber Choir share the stage. One hour before, Ijurra and Gálvez will offer the keys to this musical event in a lecture open to the public, with prior withdrawal of an invitation at the box office.

García del Barrio stressed the Museum's vocation as a "meeting place where we can work together to serve the community. In this sense, Garrido has highlighted "the spirit of collaboration and complicity" with which has worked in this concert involving "some of the oldest cultural institutions in Europe united by the avant-garde of the 30s". The artistic director of Performing Arts and Music also pointed out the relevance of this union taking place in a contemporary art museum with a theater".

In his speech, Palomero also highlighted the collaboration between the cultural institutions of Navarre and the enhancement of its cultural resources, and that includes Remacha, to whom the Symphony Orchestra of Navarre is paying special attention this year". In this line, he has pointed out that "the vindication of Remacha must be permanent, since he is an author who deserves to be in the frontispiece of the great musical institutions".

TWO CONNECTED AND CONTRASTING WORKS

Trigueros, director of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra, explained that the program to be interpreted in the concert is designed to have "connection between its parts and also contrast". Thus, he explained that together with the work of Halftter, pupil of Manuel de Falla, more "cheerful and colorful", the cantata of Remacha, "more expressionist", will be interpreted.

From the Orfeón Pamplonés, Ijurra has also pointed out some keys to Remacha's work, through some statements that the composer from Tudela himself made about this piece, which, as he has indicated, "has not been performed many times due to its difficulty" and emphasized its "authenticity".

Gálvez, director of the Chamber Choir of Pamplona has emphasized that it is "a very cameristic work, which is a challenge at an artistic level, because it is a very hard but impressive work, which cannot leave anyone indifferent". Likewise, he has defined Remacha's Jesus Christ on the Cross as a "masterpiece that transcends the musical".