{"id":2200,"date":"2020-07-24T15:00:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mapamundimusica.com\/?p=2200"},"modified":"2020-07-31T15:46:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T13:46:11","slug":"mbs-back-to-1497-and-a-tragic-story-in-the-sweetest-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapamundimusica.com\/en\/musicbeforeshabbat\/mbs-back-to-1497-and-a-tragic-story-in-the-sweetest-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"MBS back to 1497 and a tragic story in the sweetest voice: Bienvenida Aguado"},"content":{"rendered":"

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24th July 2020 \u2013 Shabbat is almost here<\/strong><\/h4>\n

And we come back to the eternal Bienvenida Aguado and this tragic story, kept alive since 1497 in the Sephardic diaspora\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Hello! <\/strong><\/span>How are you? In this occasion we come back to the Sephardic legacy, with a lady that was already our protagonist\u00a0in this edition<\/a>\u00a0of MBS. One of my very favourite female singers, Bienvenida Aguado,\u00a0born in \u00c7anakkale, Turkey, in 1929, settled in Israel from 1979 and passed away in 2016. I hope you’ll enjoy her unbelievable melismata and the sweet timbric of her voice.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

As usual, you have the video at the bottom.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>And if you like this, as usual, please<\/strong>: share it with your friends<\/span>! Thank you in advance.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n

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The greatest female singer of the Sephardi-Turkish style<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

There is not much information about Bienvenida Aguado, as she was not a chazzan, neither a professional singer.\u00a0 But we are lucky to have a bunch of recordings in audio and in video, made mainly by Susana Weich-Shahak. This picture is from one of the albums released with those recordings.<\/p>\n

Bienvenida was born in Turkey and, despite that she moved to Israel in 1979, she returned to her native land every Summer, according to the booklet of the album\u00a0Judeo-Spanish songs from the Eastern Mediterranean. Bienvenida Aguado and Loretta Gerassi<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Bienvenida sang both in Judeo-Spanish and in Turkish.\u00a0Here you have an example<\/a>\u00a0of her singing in Turkish.<\/p>\n

The song about the tragic story of the Duke of Gand\u00eda, murdered in his 19 years old<\/strong><\/h3>\n

According to the booklet of the aforementioned album, written by the wonderful\u00a0Edwin Seroussi<\/a>, \u201cthe medieval Spanish romance continued its existence in the Sephardi oral tradition with significant modifications while retaining themes and the major structural characteristics of the Hispanic genre: lines of sixteen syllables (two hemistiches of eight syllables each), assonant rhymes and melodies of\u00a0four short phrases covering two lines (four\u00a0hemistiches) in forms like ABCD (like in this piece) or ABCDCD\u201d.<\/p>\n

The event mentioned in this song dates back to\u00a01497 and tells the story of the murder of Juan de Borja y Cattanei, II Duke of Gand\u00eda (he is the man in the portrait). He was stabbed and his body was thrown to the river in Rome,\u00a0when he was only 19 years old. The last time he was seen alive was in a place called the square of the Jews.<\/p>\n

He was the\u00a0firstborn favorite son of the pope Alexander VI and his preferred\u00a0lover, Vannozza Cattanei, and brother of Cesare Borgia.<\/p>\n

There are several hypothesis about the reason: the jealousy one, according to which his younger brother Jofr\u00e9 killed him because Juan was his wife’s lover, and the political one, that blames Cesare, who would take Juan’s place in the heart and the political plans of the Pope, their father. But, so far, this is an unsolved case and many other possibilities, like a punishment by enemies of their family, make also sense.<\/p>\n

The song explains how the body of the Duke was found in the river by some poor fishermen. With no doubt, he was a rich and important person, because of the clothes he had. They though he was the son of a king. He had a ring in his finger that would make\u00a0one hundred poor become rich. And the son of Alexander was been search…<\/p>\n

If they returned him alive to his father, he would make them noble, and if they returned him dead, he would give them some presents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Click the picture to listen to La muerte del Duque de Gand\u00eda<\/em>\u00a0by Bienvenida Aguado:<\/strong><\/h3>\n