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144 results where found for «Prayer So You Don't Forget Me»
Prayer So You Don't Forget Me (Oración para que no me olvides)
- Music piece by:Óscar Castro (words) and Ariel Arancibia González (music)
- Testimony by:Rosalía Martínez
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Cuatro Álamos, November - December 1974
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- « When Katia Chornik contacted me a few years ago asking me to provide my testimony about my musical experience in prison, I thought I didn’t have much to say. »
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- « Prayer So You Don't Forget Me »
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- Music piece by:Piotr Ilich Tchaikovski
- Testimony by:César Montiel
- Experience in:Colonia Dignidad, April 1975
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- « In Colonia Dignidad, they played Swan Lake by
Tchaikovsky a lot. It was very repetitive. To several comrades, it reminds them of torture. It is not very enjoyable for us to listen to this piece at this life stage, because it transports us back to all the suffering, to what they did to us. »- [...]
- « There were also voices that whispered things to us: ‘your girlfriend is here’, ‘you know other people’. You don’t forget these voices. »
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- Music piece by:Eusebio Lillo and Ramón Carnicer
- Testimony by:Joaquín Real Hermosilla
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- « Some 30 leaders and activists from the Popular Unity parties were arrested in Coyhaique and confined in Las Bandurrias, fifteen kilometres from the city, in a compound used as a veterinary clinic for horses. »
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- « Songs such as ‘Venceremos’ (We Shall Be Victorious), ‘El pueblo unido jamás será vencido’ (The People United Will Never Be Defeated), ‘Plegaria a un labrador’ (Prayer to a Labourer), and others were chosen. If a prisoner did not sing or forgot the lyrics, the agents would beat him violently with their fists and feet or with their rifle butts. »
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- Music piece by:Fred Rauch (lyrics) and Gerhard Winkler (music). English lyrics by Carl Sigman. Recorded by Frankie Laine.
- Testimony by:Luis Cifuentes Seves
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros, Estadio Nacional, September - November 1973
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- « I sang this song, as a soloist, in the dressing rooms of the National Stadium. »
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- « Please listen to my prayer »
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- Music piece by:Unknown
- Testimony by:Luis Cifuentes Seves
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, January – February 1974
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- « This is another song that was performed by the band Los de Chacabuco and was sung in the prisoners’ weekly show. It’s a very old Mexican song that was popular in Chile. »
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- « a prayer was heard in the camp. »
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- Music piece by:Violeta Parra
- Testimony by:Paicavi Painemal
- Experience in:Cárcel de Temuco, 1985
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- « We set up a band with a group of fellow prisoners. They were young, university students. One of them had a guitar. »
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- « Sometimes evangelicals would come to say a prayer and sing traditional songs. That never appealed to me. »
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- Music piece by:Víctor Jara
- Testimony by:Joaquín Vallejos
- Experience in:Academia de Guerra Naval, January 1974
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- « I was arrested at home together with a childhood friend who they’d gone to pick up first. My family thought he’d stitched me up, which was not true. »
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- « There I could hear the women held in the cell in front of ours (they were almost certainly much worse off than we were), singing a song that has stuck in my mind ever since. It was the one that says 'Usted no es ná, no es chicha ni limoná' (You’re nothing, you're neither fish nor fowl). This example of fortitude and commitment helped me to get back on my feet, forget the physical pain and try to help those comrades who were worse off than me. »
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- Music piece by:Artidorio Cresseri
- Testimony by:Germán Larrabe
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Melinka, Puchuncaví, 1974 - 1976
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- « This zamba was the first song we tried to perform in Puchuncaví, with a group made up of prisoners transferred from Chacabuco Detention Camp together with us, newly arrived 'puchuncas'. »
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- « I would like to forget you »
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- Music piece by:attributed to Gilberto Rojas Enríquez (Bolivia), Manuel Casazola Huancco (Perú), and the Andean oral tradition. Popularised in Chile by Violeta Parra and her children Isabel and Ángel Parra.
- Testimony by:Luis Cifuentes Seves
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, January – February 1974
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- « This is the last track on the cassette recorded by the band Los de Chacabuco in the concentration camp; it was digitised in 2015. »
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- « poison to forget you. »
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- Music piece by:Luis Mella Toro
- Testimony by:César Montiel
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- « In Colonia Dignidad, they played Swan Lake by