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162 results where found for «Tonada San Gregorio»
- Music piece by:Pedro Humire Loredo
- Testimony by:Pedro Humire Loredo
- Experience in:Tenencia de Carabineros Nueva España, Población San Gregorio, September 1973
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tonada recalls the horrible situation I was subjected to in the cells of the police station in the San Gregorio district in southern Santiago. »- [...]
- « Saint Gregory’s Tonada (Tonada San Gregorio) »
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- Music piece by:Eduardo Falú and Jaime Dávalos
- Testimony by:Luis Cifuentes Seves
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, November 1973 - February 1974
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- « The Los de Chacabuco band, created and conducted by Ángel Parra, performed this zamba by Eduardo Falú and Jaime Davalos at the camp’s weekly shows. »
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- « Tonada del viejo amor »
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Recinto: Tenencia de Carabineros Nueva España, Población San Gregorio- There are 1 testimonies about this detention centre.
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- Music piece by:original by Friedrich von Schiller (lyrics) and Ludwig van Beethoven (music). Free version in Spanish by Amado Regueiro Rodríguez, aka Orbe (lyrics) y Waldo de los Ríos (music), popularised in Chile by Miguel Ríos.
- Testimony by:Renato Alvarado Vidal
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- « Once upon a time, there was a good little wolf. … No. That’s another story. »
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- « And of course, I listened to it, and I sang it. I am a dreadful singer. Once, at Puchuncaví concentration camp, they noticed that out of 320 singers I was the one singing the National Anthem out of tune. But at this moment I sang, I joined my comrades’ chorus with all my might, and I sang, I sang away all my joy at staying alive and still being on my feet. »
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- Music piece by:Roberto Ternán
- Testimony by:Sara De Witt
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros, Tres Álamos, September 1976
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- « We were in Tres Álamos barracks in September 1976. I don’t recall how many of us women were imprisoned there. I believe there were close to a hundred of us. »
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- « I still remember those intense moments when we sang so many songs. Gazing up at the sky, we sang
'Candombe para José' , which we called 'El Negro José'. I understood that song as something new and different from the songs we usually sang. It seemed more contemporary to me and it made me feel in touch with my people outside the camp. The line 'en un pueblo olvidado no sé por qué' ('in a God-forsaken town, I don't know why') seemed connected with how I was feeling at that time. »- [Read full testimony]
- Music piece by:Quelentaro (Gastón and Eduardo Guzmán)
- Testimony by:Luis Cifuentes Seves
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros Chacabuco, November 1973 – February 1974
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- « From the first time I heard it, I was impressed by the way the duo Quelentaro sang this song, which was also written by them. When I sang it, I always tried to sing it in their style. I never sang it on stage, only for myself or for small groups of friends strumming guitars together. »
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- Music piece by:Eduardo Gatti
- Testimony by:Scarlett Mathieu
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- « ‘Moments’ was a song sung by the female comrades whose partners were imprisoned on the other side of Tres Álamos, or were fugitives or disappeared. We all sang it, but it was like their anthem. »
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- « We all sang, those who sang well and those who sang badly. It was something that created great communion. »
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Recinto: Comisaría de Carabineros Nº 1, San Antonio (también Prefectura de San Antonio)- There are no testimonies about this detention centre.
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Recinto: Comisaría de Carabineros Nº 6, San Bernardo (actual Comisaría de Carabineros Nº 14, San Bernardo)- There are no testimonies about this detention centre.
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- Music piece by:Joan Manuel Serrat
- Testimony by:Beatriz Bataszew Contreras
- Experience in:Campamento de Prisioneros, Tres Álamos, December 1974 - May 1976
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- « Tres Álamos was a more 'normal' camp, even though we never had a trial. There was a lot of music, it was sort of ritualistic. »
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- « Then someone might say ‘if I sang this it was for a reason’. I think that often things just happen, as they do in love. Rather than the lyrics, what made sense for me was that we, eighty women, sang it together. It was extremely potent. »
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