#Cuzco School

[lionofchaeronea]

Trifacial Trinity, anonymous artist (Cusco School), between ca. 1750 and ca. 1770

[solnunquamoccidit]

Nuestra Señora del Carmen

circle of Diego Quispe Tito (Peruvian, 1611 – 1681) oil on canvas (73,7 × 104,1 cm), late-17th century

Brooklyn Museum

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Archangel Gabriel - Cuzco School - Peru

[vintagehomecollection]

'My own white marble mantel was surmounted by a wonderful seventeenth-century painting of the Peruvian Cuzco school, depicting the Archangel Gabriel. An extraordinary blend of Jesuit Catholicism and Inca artistry, this painting came to me in its ornate gilt frame and was anchored by a trio of little portraits and antique mirrors to either side.'

Decorating with Pictures, 1991

[history-of-fashion]

ab. 1690-1710 Peruvian, Cuzco School - Portrait of a Lady with a Chiqueador

(Robert Simon Fine Art, Inc.)

[mamotretos]

Anonymous, Cuzco school, Torment of the Evil Tongues, oil on canvas, late 17th century.

[talonabraxas]

The Golden Sun Disc of Mu Talon Abraxas

Held by ropes of pure gold in a shrine in the greatest Temple of Divine Light of the Motherland of Mu was the gigantic Golden Disc of the Sun. Before it, on an altar, which was a pillar carved out of solid stone, there blazed the eternal white Light of the crystalline Maxin Flame, the Divine Limitless Light of Creation. About 30,000 B.C. the Maxin Light went out on the Altar because of the evil of some of the priest-scientists of Great Mu. The Sun Disc remained in its shrine, however, until the time of the final destruction and submergence of 10-12,000 B.C.

As we said before, this Disc was not merely used as an object of adoration, nor was it the symbolic representation of our Solar Sun. It was also a scientific instrument, and the secret of its power came originally out of the dim past in the time of the Elder Race. In part, it was an object of adoration because it served in ritualistic temple services as a focus or point of concentration for those meditating. It also served as a symbolic representation of the Great Central, or Cosmic Sun, which, in turn, symbolizes the Creator. As a scientific instrument it was used in connection with a complex system of mirrors of pure gold, reflectors and lenses to produce healing in the bodies of those who were inside the Temple of Light. Indeed, that is why it was called Temple of Divine Light. Besides all these functions, the Sun Disc was a focal point for concentration of a dimensional quality. When the Disc was struck by a priest-scientist, who understood its operation, it would set certain vibratory conditions which could even bring about great earthquakes and, if continued long enough, might bring about a change in the rotation of the Earth itself. When attuned to a person’s particular frequency pattern it could transport this person wherever he wished to go merely by the mental picture he created. It was, therefore, an object of transportation.

The Golden Sun Disc of Mu was not made of ordinary gold, but was transmuted gold, and unusual in its qualities in that it was a translucent metal similar, evidently, to the “metal you can almost look through” of the UFOs.

Lord Muru brought this Disc with him when he journeyed to Lake Titicaca, and it was placed in a subterranean temple at the Monastery of the Brotherhood of the Seven Rays. Here, it was used not only by the students of life daily, but also by the Masters and Saints from the Mystery Schools throughout the world so that they might be teleported back and forth to sit in Council or to partake of some Transmission Ceremony.

When the Incas came to Peru, and come they did, for they were not native Quechua Indians, but came from a land across the Pacific, they established a highly spiritual society on top of the ruins of the great culture that had belonged to the Colonial Empire of Lemuria. The High Priests of the Sun of Tawantinsuyo–the name of the Inca Empire–built their Coricancha or Temple of the Sun exactly on top of an older structure dating from very remote times. From ancient records in their homeland across the Pacific they learned of the Golden Sun Disc of Mu and they knew it had been removed from the doomed continent and taken to a new land where Lord Muru had founded an Inner Retreat or Sanctuary.

Once in Peru, the Incan High Priests searched long for the Disc but were never able to locate it. However, when they had reached the place on the Spiritual Pathway where they could use the Disc to the benefit of all their people–the native, indigenous tribes they had amalgamated into an empire–as it had been used on Mu, then it was presented to them for their daily use in their Temple of the Sun at Cuzco.

The Inca Emperor at the time was a Divine Mystic or Saint, and he made a pilgrimage to the Monastery at Lake Titicaca, and there Aramu-Muru, as Spiritual Head or Abbot of the Brotherhood, gave the Disc to the Emperor. Several Brothers from the lake were directed to journey with him to the capital of the empire, Cuzco. Here the Disc was placed in a shrine that had been prepared for it, and it was secured with golden ropes as it had been held in ancient Lemuria. Even today, the holes through which these ropes passed can be seen at the Convent of Santo Domingo in Cuzco which is built on top of the Pre-Inca and Inca Sun Temple.

The Incas called their Temple of the Sun Coricancha, which means Place of Gold or Garden of Gold. This was because of the magnificent, solid gold, life-sized figures of men, animals, plants and flowers that were placed in a real Garden of Gold adjacent to the Sun Temple. But the priest-scientists called the Temple Amarucancha. On some of the stones at Santo Domingo today you can still see carved serpents (amarus) and that is the reason, they say, that some knew the Temple as Amarucancha, or, Place of the Serpents. However, that is not the real reason. Amaru is a form of Aramu, which is one of the names of Lord Maru. There are large snakes in the Andes which are still called amarus. Lord Maru’s name concerns a snake because his title is similar to that of another world teacher, Quetzalcoatl, the Plumed Serpent of the Aztec Empire in Mexico. Therefore, the Temple of the Sun at Cuzco was named for Aramu-Muru, head of the Monastery at Lake Titicaca, for it was he who enabled them to have, at last, the Golden Disc in their Sun Temple. Within this greater Temple there were smaller temples or shrines dedicated to the Moon, the Twelve Planets (Stars), and to the Seven Rays.

The Brotherhood of the Seven Rays became the leading force in the spiritual life of the Incas, and they learned the use of the Disc from ancient records left by the wise Pre-Incas who were Lemurian colonists. The Disc remained in the Coricancha at Cuzco until word reached the priests that Don Francisco Pizarro had landed in Peru. Knowing full well what was going to take place, sorrowfully they removed the Disc from the Cuzco shrine and returned it to its place in the subterranean temple at the Monastery. The Spanish conquerors never saw it.

On January 21, 1956, Beloved Archangel Michael of the Sun gave an address at His Retreat at Banff, in the Canadian Rockies. The following is an excerpt:

Many of the Temples used on Atlantis and Lemuria have been raised into the etheric realms. Some day they will be lowered again when man is spiritually ready to receive them. It has happened that one or more of the precious stones used in the construction of these Temples have been put in the hands of a High Priest or Head of a Spiritual Order where they form a connection with the Celestial Hierarchy. There are several dozens of the stones from My own Temple in the possession of individuals at various points on the Earth’s surface today…

The Golden Sun Disc of Mu is one of the precious stones referred to by Lord Michael. And it was put in the hands of the Head of the Brotherhood of the Seven Rays, Aramu-Muru. The Disc will remain at Lake Titicaca until that day ‘when man is spiritually ready’ to receive it and to use it once again. On that day the Golden Disc will be taken out of its subterranean chamber and placed high above the Monastery of the Brotherhood. For many miles the pilgrims of the New Dawn will see it once again reflecting the glorious rays of the Sun. Coming from it will be an undeniable tone of purest harmony that will bring many followers of light up the foot-worn path to the ancient gate of the Brotherhood of the Seven Rays, and they shall enter the Valley of the Blue Moon for fellowship in the Father.

Excerpt from Secret Of The Andes

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Three-faced Trinity with the triangle. Anonymous from a Cuzco school, 18th century. Museum of Art of Lima

The three-faced and the three-headed Trinity were frowned upon by theologians and other watchers of the Christian canon, considering it a monstrosity of nature. This led to the rejection by Jean Gerson (chancellor of the University of Paris), St. Anthony (archbishop of Florence) or Joannes Molanus (professor at the University of Leuven), among others. In medieval times, this artistic typology also clashed with the polycephalous image of the devil, which was obviously totally antithetical, and which, in the 16th century, was a source of ridicule among Protestants. Finally, opposition to the representation reached the ecclesiastical authorities, and was condemned on several occasions: first at the session of the Council of Trent dedicated to the cult of the images, produced on 4th December of 1563; and then in a papal bull of Pope Urban VIII, published on 11th August, 1628, in which he asserted that these heretical representations were to be removed and burned. This fact explains the conservation of few copies of this type of iconography, although it did not prevent their survival in rural areas, far from the centres of power. In 1745, Pope Benedict XIV banned it by means of a brief apostolic letter (a pontifical letter setting out resolutions concerning the governance and discipline of the Church), a document known as the “Sollicitudini nostrae”. 

Three-faced Trinity. Anonymous Dutch, around 1500. Sotheby’s New York, 9th June 2011, lot 56

[theemperorsnewfanblog]

soo if new school takes place in Peru and Lima exists.. does Cuzco also exist? Or is the Kuzconian empire supposed to be Cuzco? Or was Kuzco just named after the city? so many questions

[beardedmrbean]

ASSIS BRASIL, Brazil (AP) — Dozens of migrants sleep in a mosquito-infested six-bedroom wooden shelter in the Brazilian Amazon, their dreams of a better life in the U.S. on hold because of President Joe Biden’shalt on asylum.

Johany “Flaca” Rodríguez, 48, was ready to leave behind the struggles of life in Venezuela. She has been waiting in the shelter holding 45 people in Assis Brasil, a city of 7,000 residents bordering Peru, because others told her how difficult the journey to the U.S. has become.

Migrants, police, officials and analysts say Biden’s actions have caused a wait-and-see attitude among migrants who are staying in Latin America’s biggest economy, at least for now. Like anywhere along migrants’ routes toward hoped-for new lives, local communities are finding it hard to meet new populations’ needs.

After sleeping on dirty mattresses and in half-torn hammocks, and eating rice, beans and ground beef, Rodríguez decided this month that she and her dog Kiko would spend a few weeks with friends in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul.

Wearing a headband, leggings and a small backpack, Rodríguez woke early to walk more than 100 kilometers (62 miles) for two days to a nearby city of 27,000 residents. There, she hopes to make some money and take a bus to Brazil’s south, then reach the U.S. one day.

“I have to stay here until it is safer to go,” Rodríguez said. “I am not super happy about staying (in Brazil), but that’s what I can do.”

Brazil saw waves of migrants passing through to North America in the first part of the year. There were Indians, Bengalis, Senegalese and Nigerians, among others, said Rêmullo Diniz, the coordinator of Gefron, Acre state’s police group for border operations,

When Biden said he was going to crack down, many people in those groups began staying in their countries instead of heading to Latin America, Brazilian government officials and independent analysts said. For citizens of South American countries, it’s easier. Brazil allows residents of its 10 neighboring nations to stay visa-free for up to two years.

The Biden administration said last week that arrests for illegal crossings from Mexico fell more than 40% since asylum processing was temporarily suspended at the U.S. border with Mexico on June 5. Arrests fell below 2,400 a day for the first time during Biden’s presidency.

Acre state offers a snapshot of the attitude among many migrants, and raises the possibility that Acre and other resting spots will become long-term hosts.

The city of Assis Brasil has little to offer to migrants but the wooden shelter where Rodríguez was staying and a school gymnasium where 15 men can sleep. There are two small hotels and a bus stop used by vans crossing into Peru. It has five restaurants scattered along its main road, two grocery shops and an ice cream parlor that has Amazon flavors like local fruits cupuacu and tapereba. Migrants frequently beg for money at the city’s only square.

There are three daily flights into state capital Rio Branco, where 21-year-old Jay came from India en route to the U.S. to study engineering. He declined to disclose his hometown and his last name.

Wearing a white cap reading “RIO DE JANEIRO,” he said that “it would take too long if I just sat and waited,” in India.

“It is a long trip, very risky. But it is my dream to study there and I will accomplish it,” he said.

Brazil’s westernmost state is a remote enclave in the middle of the rainforest, used by tourists as part of an alternative route to visit Cuzco, once the capital of the Inca empire in Peru.

One of Assis’ main attractions for locals is sitting on the benches of its main square Senador Guiomard to watch soccer on TV and eat barbecue. The small city’s founders came to the Amazon in 1908 to start a rubber plantation that 50 years later became a city. Not much has changed since, despite the BR-317 road that runs by it, the only land connection between Brazil and Peru. When residents of Assis Brasil are bored, and they often are, they go to neighboring Peruvian city of Iñapari to have a drink, generally a pisco sour.

Venezuelan migrant Alexander Guedes Martinez, 27, said he will stay as long as needed to get more cash and maybe in a year go to Houston, where he has family. He came with his 17-year-old partner and their 5-month-old baby.

At the Assis Brasil shelter where they were staying last month, he said that he hopes “to go (back) to Venezuela and get key documents to try to cross in a better fashion.”

“I want to be cautious because of my daughter,” he said. “Being here helps.”

Acre state’s patrol has about 40 agents to inspect 2,600 kilometers (1,615 miles) of border with Peru and Bolivia. A main road connects the three countries, but local police say that many migrants also move through the forest, some of them carrying drugs.

Cuban migrant Miguel Hidalgo, 52, tried to get to the U.S. years ago. He left the island to Suriname, then came to Brazil and doesn’t plan on leaving any time soon.

“I like Brazil. I have been here for a short time, but people are not prejudiced against me, people are lovely,” he said. “I want to live like a human being. I am not asking for any riches. I want to live in tranquility, help my family in Cuba.”

Acre Gov. Gladson Camelli said in a statement to the AP that he is worried about a bigger influx of South American migrants coming soon.

“Our government has tried to do its part in the humanitarian support,” he said.

Assis Brasil’s Mayor Jerry Correia also is bracing for more demand. City hall is feeding about 60 migrants every day and voters are feeling upset in a year of mayoral elections.

“This is all on our back. This is a policy that has to be handled by the federal government,” Correia said. “People don’t know what happens on our border. We need to be seen.”

[twobrothersatwork]

Cuzco School, Our Lady of Guadalupe (circa 1813).

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 11.15 (before 1970)

655 – Battle of the Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria. 1315 – Growth of the Old Swiss Confederacy: The Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft ambushes the army of Leopold I in the Battle of Morgarten. 1532 – Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire: Commanded by Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistadors under Hernando de Soto meet Incan Emperor Atahualpa for the first time outside Cajamarca, arranging for a meeting in the city plaza the following day. 1533 – Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire. 1705 – Rákóczi's War of Independence: The Habsburg Empire and Denmark win a military victory over the Kurucs from Hungary in the Battle of Zsibó. 1760 – The secondly-built Castellania in Valletta is officially inaugurated with the blessing of the interior Chapel of Sorrows. 1777 – American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation. 1806 – Pike Expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike spots a mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains. It is later named Pikes Peak in his honor. 1842 – A slave revolt in the Cherokee Nation commences. 1849 – Boilers of the steamboat Louisiana explode as she pulls back from the dock in New Orleans, killing more than 150 people. 1864 – American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins his March to the Sea. 1884 – The Berlin Conference of 1884–1885 met on 15 November 1884, and after an adjournment concluded on 26 February 1885, with the signature of a General Act, regulating the European colonisation and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period. 1889 – Brazil is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup. 1899 - Second Boer War: Battle of Chieveley, a British armored train is ambushed and partially derailed. British lose the battle, with 80 soldiers captured, along with war correspondent Winston Churchill. 1917 – Eduskunta declares itself the supreme state power of Finland, prompting its declaration of independence and secession from Russia. 1920 – The first assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva, Switzerland. 1920 – The Free City of Danzig is established. 1922 – At least 300 are massacred during a general strike in Guayaquil, Ecuador. 1928 – The RNLI lifeboat Mary Stanford capsizes in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17-man crew. 1933 – Thailand holds its first election. 1938 – Nazi Germany bans Jewish children from public schools in the aftermath of Kristallnacht. 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory. 1943 – The Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps". 1951 – Nikos Beloyannis, along with 11 comrades, is sentenced to death for attempting to reestablish the Communist Party of Greece. 1955 – The first part of the Saint Petersburg Metro is opened. 1957 – Short Solent 3 crashes near Chessell. 1965 – Craig Breedlove sets a land speed record of 600.601 mph (966.574 km/h) in his car, the Spirit of America, at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. 1966 – Project Gemini: Gemini 12 completes the program's final mission, when it splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean. 1967 – The only fatality of the North American X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert. 1968 – The Cleveland Transit System becomes the first transit system in the western hemisphere to provide direct rapid transit service from a city's downtown to its major airport. 1969 – Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea. 1969 – Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic "March Against Death".

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OUR LADY OF POMATA

Unidentified Cuzco School artist, Peruvian, active 16th-18th cen

18TH CENTURY

Oil on canvas

This devotional image portrays an actual statue of Mary as Our Lady of Pomata atop an elaborate pedestal placed on a pilgrimage altar near Lake Titicaca. Enslaved divers harvested the pearls draped across Mary’s body. Silk thread produced in China was likely woven into fabric in Spain before crossing the Atlantic where a Spanish colonizer or an Indigenous Andean seamstress sewed Mary’s garments. Objects from the water and objects that crossed water reflect this painting’s eighteenth-century global connections.

Feathers springing from Mary’s crown come from the Rhea, an Andean ostrich associated with celestial beings among Indigenous Andeans. In Europe, African ostrich feathers long held associations with the Virgin, thus suggesting how a simple feather bridged religious and cultural divisions. Upon realizing such connections, priests and nuns commissioned thousands of religious images, like this one, that were painted by Indigenous Americans and Spanish colonizers. Bridging traditions, such works more easily forced conversion.

From the 2023 exhibition Liquidity: Art, Commodities, and Water, curated by Michael Hartman, Jonathan Little Cohen Associate Curator of American Art

Our Lady of Pomata | Hood Museum (dartmouth.edu)

Our Lady of the Rosary of Pomata / Unidentified artist / Origin Potosí (possibly), Bolivia /Date1669

[diarioelpepazo]

  León Magno Montiel @leonmagnom El nombre Huáscar nació en el Cuzco, en la capital inca, es un toponímico que designa un lugar ancestral en las cumbres peruanas. Fue el nombre del hermano mayor de Atahualpa, quien murió guerreando, su cuerpo fue arrojado al caudaloso Yanamayo, el río de aguas sagradas. El 12 de junio de 1964 nació un Huáscar en Maracaibo, hijo del publicista pionero Rafael “Felo” Barradas y la abogada Zarelda Torres. Desde muy pequeño mostró su gran sensibilidad para la música, destacaba en las clases del Colegio Alemán de Maracaibo, participaba en sus actos culturales con gracia, ejecutando la flauta dulce y el cuatro. Por su evidente talento musical, sus padres lo inscribieron en el Conservatorio “José Luis Paz” en la avenida El Milagro, allí comenzó a estudiar teoría y solfeo, piano complementario y armonía. Fue miembro fundador de La Estudiantina del Zulia, que tuvo como maestro tutelar al guitarrista Ciro Adarme; también lo fue de la Orquesta Sinfónica Juvenil que dirigía el talentoso saxofonista llanero Juan Belmonte, quien años más tarde, lo contrataría como ejecutante del saxo tenor para su orquesta de bailes La Máxima. “Felo” Barradas fue fundador de Ondas del Lago Televisión, el primer canal regional del país. Era un hombre del mundo del espectáculo, que escuchaba con detenimiento los elogios y recomendaciones de los profesores de su hijo. Por ello, decidió solicitar una beca para enviarlo a estudiar música a los Estados Unidos, así comenzó el largo periplo de estudios de alto nivel del joven Huáscar. En 1982 llegó a Pasadena, ciudad donde nació Texas, el importante estado sureño, allí comenzó su curso en el San Jacinto College. A finales del año 1983 se mudó a Nueva York para estudiar en el Brooklyn College por cinco años, institución de gran prestigio fundada en 1930, con su lema “Nada sin un gran trabajo”. En la gran manzana comenzó a escuchar jazz, descargas latinas y la gran música del mundo en sus teatros. Para complementar su modesta beca, trabajó como despachador de pizzas a domicilio; el flautista marabino iba por las calles de los condados neoyorquinos con un bolso térmico repartiéndolas en casas y sitios de trabajo. Soportó veranos sofocantes, los crudos inviernos con despiadadas nevadas; en el típico clima contrastante de la costa Este de los Estados Unidos. Huáscar celebraba la llegada de la benévola primavera, que encendía la música en los parques, activaba las caminatas entusiastas, mostraba sus calles llenas de gente noche y día, jardines con múltiples germinaciones y poderoso colorido. En 1988 entró a la respetada academia Juilliard School of Music, escuela fundada en 1905, que en un principio estuvo ubicada en la Fifth Avenue, pero desde 1969 la instalaron en el Lincoln Center. En esa época conoció a los grandes clásicos de la literatura estadounidense, habría de empezar por Walt Whitman. Después conoció a Arthur Miller y Henry Miller, leyó con devoción a Thomas Wolfe: todos ellos vivieron en Brooklyn. Luego conoció la obra de Paul Auster, quien reside en ese condado desde los años 80, este gran narrador expresó: “Nadie puede cruzar la frontera que lo separa del otro, por la sencilla razón de que nadie puede tener acceso a sí mismo”. Auster a propósito de su barrio ha manifestado: “Brooklyn es un inventario del universo y tiene la peculiaridad de que mientras que en todas partes las diferencias étnicas y religiosas son una fuente potencial de conflictos, aquí se convive en armonía”. En la capital del mundo, “the big apple”, Huáscar no perdió la conexión con la música  venezolana, ni con la caribeña, siempre escuchaba y ejecutaba temas de Aldemaro Romero, Vytas Brenner, la Orquesta Aragón, Néstor Sánchez, Guaco y la Fania All Stars. En 1990 emprendió su viaje al viejo continente para realizar una especialización en flauta, llegó a la Alemania que siempre soñó conocer, en la que anhelaba vivir desde sus años de estudiante de secundaria, y se estableció en Frankfurt am Main: la ciudad cuna del genio Johann Wolfgang Von Go

ethe. Allí permaneció por dos intensos años mientras culminaba sus estudios superiores. Huáscar conoció a maestros de la calidad de Bernard Goldberg y Mirjam Nastasi, la celebérrima flautista nacida en Utrecht. Fue discípulo del director de orquestas y flautista canadiense Robert Aitken. El escritor Premio Nobel 2001 V.S. Naipaul (Trinidad, 1932) relató: “Miranda fue el primer sudamericano culto que Europa conoció”. Sin duda, Huáscar es otro hijo de América del sur que demostró su amplia cultura en este continente antiguo, un gran museo a cielo abierto. Barradas regresó a Venezuela con 29 años de edad, preparado para comenzar su carrera como solista y abrirse paso en la música comercial, entró a la agresiva competencia del disco y sus escenarios. Participó en la Orquesta Sinfónica de Maracaibo y en la Orquesta Sinfónica Municipal de Caracas, donde lo contrataron como flautista co-principal. En paralelo comenzó a producir álbumes en la vertiente del “neo-folclor” o “folclor-fusión”, junto a sus fraternos compañeros Elvis Martínez, Jorge Polanco, Fernando Valladares, Gilberto Ferrer, Rafael Simón Bolívar, Agustín Espina; con ellos ha producido una veintena de álbumes memorables, logrando buenas ventas y múltiples elogios de la crítica especializada. Es poco usual que un intérprete de las grandes obras de la música universal, sienta tanta pasión por la música tan raigal y sencilla de su patria caribeña, ese es el caso de Huáscar Barradas: buen intérprete de Bocherini, de las sonatas para flauta de Johann Sebastián Bach y de los conciertos de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Es un fiel ejecutante de las obras de Claude Debussy y de Haydn.  Además, Huáscar ha tomado préstamos e influencias del rock y el jazz, de la salsa y el feeling, pero el corazón de su música ha sido el folclor venezolano: sus ritmos, variantes, síncopas más particulares. La periodista argentina Ivanna Soto ha afirmado: “Pese a que muchos de estos hits están colmados de préstamos e influencias, se diferenció de todo lo que se había escuchado hasta entonces. Su recital es un blues eléctrico, ecléctico y desesperado que suena con fuerza con los riffs abrumadores e ilimitados de Page, los alaridos desbocados de Plant, el beat elocuente de Bonzo y el ritmo de Jones”. Esto para explicar lo que fue la música Led Zeppelin. Esa misma fórmula ecléctica, la podemos aplicar al zuliano planetario Huáscar Barradas Torres, quien unió la ópera “Carmen” de Georges Bizet al humor en tiempo de reggae de Mermelada Bunch; él fusionó el canto de Ángela con el rapeo de Pipo Ramírez, en su séptimo álbum “Encuentros”. Huáscar Barradas; Ángela, Pipo y Leo. Uno de los trabajos más importantes realizados por el flautista Barradas, fue el canto de las ballenas jorobadas del Pacífico, producción que grabó con hidrófonos especiales en Colombia. Esa obra para orquesta la estrenó en el 2003 en un concierto de gala, una pieza exploratoria de alto nivel artístico. El escenario para su premier fue la Catedral de Sal de Zipaquirá, ubicada a las afueras de Bogotá, allí fue donde montó la obra “Pacificando”, en las profundidades de esa antigua mina de sal. En esa pieza incluyó el canto de las ballenas jorobadas del Océano Pacífico y lo combinó con instrumentación diversa: sinfónica, percusión, ocarinas, voces humanas y la actuación como solista de Martha Senn, la destacada mezzo soprano colombiana. Desde hace dos décadas, Huáscar vive en Caracas, allí ha permanecido como músico de orquesta, realizando sus conciertos, grabando colaboraciones importantes con artistas de la talla de Oscar D’ León, Frank Quintero, Francisco Pacheco, el pianista Leopoldo Betancourt, con quien grabó los álbumes “Dos mundos” y “Dos Mundos 2”. Desde la capital venezolana, Huáscar programa sus giras por el mundo. Hasta ahora ha tocado su flauta en 25 naciones, incluyendo su amada Alemania, donde el diario Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung comentó: “El señor Barradas nos elevó al espectro expresivo de la flauta, más allá de lo que nuestros oídos europeos están acostumbr

ados. Brilló con absoluta precisión rítmica y virtuosismo”. En 2011 fue nominado al Premio Grammy Latino por su álbum “Entre amigos 2” logro que lo catapultó en mercados que aún no conocía. Hasta ahora ha realizado 100 conciertos en el exterior y sueña con ir a Rusia, por su gran tradición musical, y a Australia por el espíritu  innovador y aventurero de sus nativos. Uno de sus proyectos actuales, quizá el m��s ambicioso, es el “Tributo a Simón Díaz” el genio de la tonada, que murió en el convulsionado mes de febrero de 2014. Sin duda, El Tío Simón es el mayor rasgo de identidad musical de Venezuela. En este concierto homenaje participan importantes cantantes y músicos, nucleados alrededor del flautista zuliano, para aportar su talento. Esa gira cuenta con el aval y asesoría de la hija de Simón, la escritora Bettsimar Díaz. En su casa ubicada en la zona alta de la gran Caracas, Huáscar tiene paredes escritas con versos propios y ajenos, un chinchorro guajiro colgado en el balcón y muchos cedés de música regados por todos lados. Es abstemio, fanático de la comida criolla, un hiperactivo trabajador. Una imagen de Francisco de Miranda, nos recuerda que el precursor de la independencia ejecutaba la flauta transversa, de una sola llave, elaborada con madera de boj. Miranda tocaba importantes obras de su época, lo hizo frente al genio Franz Joseph Haydn, el padre de la sinfonía, se encontraron en Austria. Lo que no conseguimos por ningún lado en su hogar, son sus zapatos, ni sus cotizas. Así queda claro que su vocación es andar descalzo por los escenarios del mundo, lo que para él representa la máxima sensación de libertad. Con una gran presencia en los medios electrónicos, con una agenda colmada de conciertos y muchas composiciones suyas sonando en las emisoras de América Latina, Huáscar va por los teatros del mundo descalzo, haciendo melodías con su flauta, encantando ballenas y acompañando tonadas     Para recibir en tu celular esta y otras informaciones, únete a nuestras redes sociales, síguenos en Instagram, Twitter y Facebook como @DiarioElPepazo El Pepazo

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14th January 2023 Writings

14th

Excerpt from: The Loneliness of Alex

It seemed that she was still trying to take everything in.

 “Of course,” Stacy said.

 Quinn reopend the Waif.

  All in all, the Club of Cute's first meeting was a success, Quinn considered as she walked home. The anime was certainly interesting. She would see if Sailor Moon was worth her time, that weekend.

   Alex got home late.

 “Alex?”

 Words: 59

  Excerpt from: Freaky Groundhog

“Hi,” Janelle said.

 “Diana here.”

 “That is still quite strange,” Janelle mused. “What's up?”

 “Ken is here!”

  “I'll put Bethany on,” Janelle said.

 “Thanks.”

 “Where is he parked?” Bethany asked.

 “In frront of the front door.”

 “You can go around the back, to the basement entrance.”

 “And I'll be able to see it?”

 Words: 53

  Excerpt from: Choice of the Cheerleader

She would be the most popular!

  “And so, Kevvie and I will be auditioning for the Cadbury Tales,” Brittany explained.

 “That is great, Sweeite,” her father said.

 “You’ll have a great time,” Ashley-Amber added.

 “Thanks.”

 “But what if Kevin doesn’t get the role?” her father asked.

 “Then I’ll be annoyed at him!” Brittany said vehemently.

 “Is that all?” Ashley-Amber asked.

 “I think so,” Brittany answered as she twirled some hair.

  Ashley Amber knocked on Brittany’s door.  There was something she wanted to ask.

“Yes, Ashley-Amber?” Brittany asked after she opened the door.

 “Sweetie? Would you like me to help you practice for your audition?”

 Her stepdaughter twirled a lock of hair. “Um, sure.”

 “I also did the Canterbury Tales when I was at school.”

 “Great! It will be a great help.”

 “I’ll go and get my copy.”

  The auditions were well underway.

 “I will make a dainty garland for my head and sing,” Brittany read.

 “Very good, Brittany,” O’Neill praised. “Now, the wedding scene.”

 Brittany was thankful (again) for Ashley-Amber’s coaching as she turned to the scene.

  “I do, Palamon,” Brittany said.

 “Yeah, me too.” Kevin began kissing Brittany but she backed off after one kiss.

 “I pronounce you, husband and wife.”

 Words: 202

  Excerpt from: Legacy of Westchester

 In September, a mage vigilante group calling themselves the 'MinuteElves', defend Lahaina, Hawaii from an immature kaiju.

  South America

A kaiju is discovered in a remote area of Guyana. The Royal Knights (see below) investigate in mid June.

 In September, strange activity is noted in Cuzco.

  Scandinavia

Strange activity is noted in Kirkenes, Norway in early April.

 Norway would establish it’s own Department of Magical Investigation in September.

  Africa

Egypt

In Giza, strange rumbles are heard from the Sphinx...

  Japan

In September, Fujiwara Suki, a 16 year old resident of Kobe falls victim to a prank. Trapped underwater, she releases a burst of energy, vaporising the stream…

 Words: 107

 Total: 421

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San José y el Niño

by unknown Cuzco School artist oil on canvas (81,6 × 109,2 cm), c. 1700

Brooklyn Museum