CAMAGÜEY.- 18 years ago the City of the Tinajones gave its colonial charms for the first time to the Mexican orchestra director and violinist Armando Vargas Guevara, who returns on this occasion to strengthen the ties of brotherhood created through music between the Aztec country and Cuba.

"It had been a long time since I was in Camagüey, what I call being at home, and really meeting friends who in my first visits were young people of about 15 or 16 years old, as is the case of the teacher Eduardo Campo and seeing him already consolidated as a musician, even as a director, for me it is a great joy”, said Vargas Guevara.

The Avellaneda Theater witnessed the conversation after finishing the concert with the Camagüey Symphony Orchestra, with themes such as Lindas Hidalguenses, by Abundio Martínez; Ludwig Van Beethoven's seventh symphony in A Major or the Waltz Lupita, the latter, the creation of the Mexican artist and politician Emeterio Moreno Magos.

"The reunion fills me with great satisfaction and professionally it gives me feedback, the experience with the Camagüey orchestra is very comforting, it demanded a lot of work, but we are happy because the results were audible -added the charismatic violinist- we only had a week of rehearsals in person, but the teachers here had already addressed the program, which was not easy”.

In the company of the cellist Alondra Barquera and the pianist Roberto Aguilar, from the Mexican nation, as well as the violinist from Camagüey Yeleneis Archival, the evening won the approval of the public, who gave several standing ovations to the artists led by Armando Vargas, who confessed: “moments like these are worth the obstacles that life throws at you”.

In the same way, he added, "we must break the protocols, we dare to interpret our programs, but we must break the taboo that classical music is elitist, that it can become very academic, no, music is to be enjoyed, art in general is for that and just as you receive it, so thank it ".

Plans to return in the coming months and continue working together with the Camagüey’s Symphony Orchestra with new projects will return to these plains the Mexican musician Armando Vargas Guevara, who already drank water from a tinajón to be very soon “home” again.

Translated by Linet Acuña Quilez