ALICANTE ARNICHES THEATER
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Albert St. John Y Music band
In 1930, Federico García Lorca presented his poetry collection “Poeta en Nueva York” and gave a recital at the Residencia de Señoritas in Madrid. In 1929 he left to teach in that city and Cuba. An emotional failure and a change in environment pushed him to it. But in New York City, a deep aversion to capitalism and the industrialization of modern society is highlighted.
Spread your cry against the dehumanization and alienation of people, defend justice, freedom, love and beauty. This is Alberto San Juan’s criticism of Lorca by occasionally interpreting it in a melodic or bitter voice, as if he were singing. Various emotional nuances and pauses that envelop and conquer the public.
The voice of the poet who hits with his poems questioning social inequality in the context of the 29’s economic depression. Those dark sides of an industrial world far from nature’s interests. Then economic and social change. A protest that was made yesterday and beats today even more.
“La aurora” reflects a discordant, colorless light. Greed and noise. The place of sadness and overcrowding. Or “the sight of the vomiting crowd” with the brutal solitude of the human tide. Metaphysical questioning and surrealism permeate Lorca’s lines and thus, Alberto San Juan is in absolute control, with La Banda, Claudio de Casas (guitar), Pablo Navarro (bass and cajon) and Miguel Malla (saxophone and keyboard), jazz themes.
Prose, bitter poetry and music filled with enthusiastic audiences in Arniches were created and directed by the actor. Federico rejects the discriminatory treatment of the black minority because he considers the human flavor in the African-American community in Harlem and rejects the cult of money. The ship sails away from the coast on its way to the Antilles Islands. He describes himself as “blacks in Cuba” and now knows his world, Andalusia.