This mix has been successful for many Latin American artists who have introduced it in their repertoires

Great artists such as Kiss, Deep Purple, or Metallica have reinterpreted their successes in orchestral format; some, like Pink Floyd, even wrote symphonic songs that became favorites of the public. For Latin Americans, this curiosity has not gone unnoticed: Aterciopelados is one of the bands that will join the trend by presenting the next 5th and 6th August with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Bogotá at the Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santodomingo, to celebrate the 480 years of the Colombian capital.

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As reported by the Theater page in a recently released statement, the group will revive some unforgettable classics such as Bolero faláz or Florecita rockera; the repertoire will also include new songs part of the album Claroscura. Under this premise, we wanted to remember some of the great Latin American artists who have dedicated themselves to giving new life to their songs with the help of classical music.

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Gustavo Cerati

11 symphonic episodes is the name of the album through which the Argentine singer-songwriter embarked on one of his greatest sound adventures: reinterpreting, with the help of the National Symphony Orchestra of Argentina, eleven tracks of his career with Soda Estéreo and his career as a soloist. The orchestra was totally in charge of the music, so Cerati was only in charge of the voice and lyrics. As you can read on the website of the Buenos Aires artist, the album featured the participation of forty-two musicians and the arrangements and direction of Alejando Teheran. According to La Nación, the album, which was recorded live on August 6, 2001 at the Avenida Theater in Buenos Aires, was subsequently presented at the Teatro Colón in April 2002. The DVD was released in 2003. Among the songs on the album original are: Animal song, Heart Delator, and One million light years.

Juanes

As La Nación affirms, in the facilities of the renowned Hollywood Bowl of the city of Los Angeles, the winner of more than twenty Latin Grammy statuettes was seduced, during two nights of the month of August 2012, by the beauty of the symphonic. The orchestras responsible for musicalizing the creations of the author of La camisa negra, were the Philharmonic Orchestra of Los Angeles and the youth orchestra of Los Angeles, Yola, a creation of the director of Gustavo Dudamel who, according to the website La Tercera , had the vision of bringing together poor children with scores. During the concerts, the orchestras accompanied the Colombian singer as he interpreted his most acclaimed repertoire and also, as he expressed at that moment in an interview for the portal La Tercera, some oddities as was the case with the b sides of some of his albums and songs from his first album alone, that had never been played live.

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El Tri

The most veterans of the symphonic format in Latin America are the Mexicans of El Tri. As a way to celebrate their 30th birthday, they recorded live the album "Sinfónico" in October 1998. For two days, the National Auditorium of Mexico City served as the setting for the music of the Metropolitan Symphony of Mexico, the lyrics and voice of Álex Lora, and the direction and arrangements of Maestro Eduardo Diazmuñoz, who knew how to shape something that had not been made in the region. As it is possible to observe in the page of the band, they comprise of the album some of their more recognized songs: Virgin morena, Sad song, the rolling stones, and Nostalgia. The album became platinum and was a success since its launch, which is why they repeated the symphonic format twice more: in 2001 and in 2015.

Fonseca

In December 2013, the concert brought together the talent of the musicians of the National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia with the lyrics and voice of the Colombian singer-songwriter. The fusion ended up becoming an album in which his best known hits were compiled; according to Univisón, all of them were orchestrated by 80 Colombian musicians under the direction of the Belgian Paul Dury. For the composer and performer, music graduate of the Javeriana University in Bogotá and the Berkley College of Music in Boston, this type of fusion is familiar thanks to his experience mixing pop and rock with vallenato, bullerengue, and other traditional rhythms of the Colombian territory. In addition to his reinterpreted hits, Fonseca included two jazz classics songs in English: What a Wonderful World and Angel Eyes. This was the first time the singer recorded in this language, according to El Espectador.

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Kraken

The Colombian group of hard rock, rock and roll, and progressive rock also joined the trend when in 2005 it was presented in orchestral format along with the Bogota Philharmonic Orchestra. The recital took place at the León de Greiff Auditorium in Bogotá and featured the choirs of forty people and the instruments of the ninety-six musicians of the Philharmonic, led by Maestro Ricardo Jaramillo, according to El Tiempo. The album called Kraken Philharmonic was recorded in 2006 and included all the repertoire presented in the auditorium. This album included reversals of his classics and two unpublished songs: Amnesia and Strange Prediction. Kraken was presented again under that same format in 2006 at the Palacio de los Deportes in Bogotá. In 2014, the band has a presentation because of the celebration of the 30 years of the group; this time with the participation of the New Philharmonic Orchestra and the Philharmonic Choir of Bogotá. According to the Bogota District Arts Institute, the band will return to that format on September 8, 2018 at the Jorge Eliecer Gaitán Theater to pay posthumous tribute to Elkin Ramírez, legendary vocalist of the band, who died in January 2017.

Latin American Post | Isabel Pradilla S.
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