With 'La Madremonte', the Medellín Philharmonic opens a series of educational concerts for families

The Medellín Philharmonic Orchestra (Filarmed) and the Pablo Tobón Uribe Theater come together to give life to a series of educational concerts in which all members of Antioquia's families will be able to enjoy stories and stories from universal literature.

This is how Do-Re-Mingo Fa-Vorito was born and, for its opening concert on Sunday, March 27 at 11:00 a.m., will tell the legend of La Madremonte, a story of a family living on a farm, aware of the importance of preserving and caring for nature, in which a teenager and her little brother live adventures in the field.

“The legend of La Madremonte is a myth deeply rooted since time immemorial in the culture of Antioquia and has been transmitted by many generations verbally, mostly in rural areas. It is the story of a moralizing entity that possesses magical powers with which it safeguards and defends Mother Earth or the Pachamama as the indigenous people called it”, says the composer and head of oboes of Filarmed Jaime Martínez, who also wrote the script for the work.

Finally, when the teenager dies, she becomes La Madremonte who, in order to protect nature, according to the synopsis of the concert, attacks hunters, fishermen, woodcutters and animal abusers with her magical powers, frightening them and giving them a lesson that they will never forget every time they attack the Pachamama.

La Madremonte is written for orchestra and a narrator, and through the ensemble of musicians, the diversity of the most imposing birds and animals of the Antioquia fauna, one of the most biodiverse in the world, is recreated.

This narrated concert is also an invitation to care for nature and, for Martínez, he has a close relationship with the peasants of Rionegro, where he lives with his family. “The villagers say that they have seen her, and that she is a half-human, half-animal woman, adorned with leaves, vines, mosses and vines, and that she is always accompanied by animals that support her,” Martínez told Semana.

This work was the winning project of the Call for Stimuli for Art and Culture 2020, Secretariat of Citizen Culture of Medellín.

“Do-Re-Mingo Fa-Vorito” has support from the Mayor's Office of Medellín and the Ministry of Culture and the ticket office price is 35,000 pesos and 45,000 pesos. And as announced by the Filarmed, the first 200 children under the age of ten who arrive at the theater will enter the concert for free.

Medellín will be full of events during 2022, and there is a bird's-eye flight schedule of at least 200 activities, both public and private, that can be enjoyed in the capital of Antioquia in the coming months.

The official calendar of events in Medellin for 2022 includes presentations by artists such as Christian Nodal, La Banda MS, Jessi Uribe, Jerry Rivera, Fito Páez, Caifanes, LP, Alberto Plaza, Maluma and Bad Bunny.

However, next month to celebrate International Dance Day, activities, exhibitions and training spaces are contemplated throughout the month of April. Already in May, between 21 and 22, the Popular Book Days Fair will be held.

In June from 23 to 27, the XVI International Tango Festival of Medellin will be held. During that same month, Sexual Diversity will be celebrated and pride will be brought to the streets with a program that highlights the León Zuleta Awards, on June 24, and the Gay Pride March, on July 3.

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