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The Coral Dithyrambos of Murcia and the Symphony Orchestra of the Conservatory of Music Maestro Jaime Lopez de Molina de Segura represent the national premiere of the show RAGTIME, THE MUSICAL on Tuesday, March 24, at 20.00 am in the Villa de Molina Theatre (in Chorrico Avenue, No. 10).
The price of admission is 5 euros.
The event was presented at a press conference on Tuesday 17 March, in the molinense Hall, by the Councillor for Education, Reme López Paredes, the Director of the Conservatory Maestro Jaime Lopez, Antonio José Ramón García, the Director of the Coral Dithyrambos and musical project coordinator, José Ángel Silva, the stage director of the show and musical theater professor at the School of Dramatic Arts in Murcia, Silvia Montesinos, and the Director of the Symphony Orchestra of the Conservatory of Molina de Segura, Francisco Javier Paternáin peñarrubia.
RAGTIME is a music that speaks of the turn of the century, changes in attitudes, marriages of races and cultures in an America that is being born a style of music that will change the world and how to conceive.
Love, war, revenge, honor, solidarity ... are topics covered in this musical based on the novel by Doctorow, through three seemingly very different royal families and celebrities of the era, has a history of changes and races.
All this in a totally epic and grandiose to the rhythm of jazz, gospel, gait score and, of course, the Ragtime.
With 12 nominations and four Tony awards, among which are the best screenplay and best score among others talking about this music as one of the best in the nineties.
Also, was the first of the last two decades that he has already made a Revival on Broadway.
With this project, the Ditirambo Coral de Murcia returns to his specialty, the musical theater.
And this time an unexplored way for them so far: the musical concert version, along with the symphony orchestra of the Conservatory of Molina de Segura.
The musical concert has been developed in major productions such as Les Misérables, both 10th anniversary as the 25th anniversary.
It is enjoying the musical but with the orchestra on stage and less scenery, to give the music more relevant.
Other remarkable productions are of Company, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra at Lincoln Center or Sweeney Todd in San Francisco with a star cast.
To complete the list of music in concert successful and have some even had more theatrical concert version, as is the case of Chess in London, you can also add the latest version which was made of The Phantom of Opera, also in London for its 25th anniversary.
RAGTIME is a musical that has not yet been done in Spain but across the pond was and remains a myth in literature of musical theater.
In addition, characteristics of the musical in concert, is that most of those made in this way are in the style SONG-THROUGH, ie all the action happens with music, there is little dialogue without music, like an opera is involved.
And something very important in this type of production is the orchestra.
In the case of the work will be performed in Molina de Segura, the symphony orchestra of the Conservatory of Music in Molina de Segura, directed by Francisco Javier Paternáin Peñarrubia, which will give the majesty and epic force conferring the show involved.
A collaboration of molinense Conservatory, add the stage direction by Silvia Montesinos, a professor in musical theater of the School of Dramatic Arts in Murcia, which has an extensive resume in the genre, having been trained in drama school musical AMDA in New York.
Closes the artistic team José Ángel Silva, director of the Coral Dithyrambos and project coordinator.
A total of 80 people, including musicians, singers and technicians involved in the musical.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Molina de Segura
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