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The University Museum of Navarra has presented the concert to be offered this Friday by the Symphony Orchestra of Navarra, the Orfeón Pamplonés and the Chamber Choir of Pamplona, a quotation that is a cultural alliance with three of the most prestigious musical institutions with more experience and prestige of Navarra. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. and there are still some seats available. This quotation will open the V edition of the cycle Cartographies of Musicwhich this year deals with the musical creation of the group de los Ocho.

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

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 quotation in a lecture open to the public by previous invitation at locker.

García del Barrio stressed the Museum's vocation as a "place of meeting where we can work together to serve the community". In this sense, Garrido has highlighted "the spirit of partnership and complicity" with which they have worked in this concert in which "some of the oldest cultural institutions in Europe united by the avant-garde of the 30s". The artistic director of Performing Arts and Music has 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 partnership 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 performed at 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 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 pointed out, "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 chamber work, which is assuming an artistic level challenge , because it is a very hard but impressive work, which can not leave anyone indifferent". Likewise, he defined Remacha's Jesus Christ on the Cross as a "masterpiece that transcends the musical".