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Jorge Pardo: 'Mira'. Review,
photos and online video
How great music is!
Silvia Calado. Madrid, April 21st, 2004
Translation: Joseph Kopec
Photos: Daniel Muñoz
When the director of La Iguana, the producer awarded the 9th Annual José
María Forqué Cinematographic Prize for the film 'Te doy mis ojos'
('I Give You My Eyes'), rose to the stand to receive the award, he admitted having
been left speechless. "The music had sent me, I was then in another world".
Jorge
Pardo's 'Mira' was heard live for the first time, three years after the album's
release, on an exceptional stage: Madrid's Royal Theater. Situated in an atrezzo
jazz club and before an audience consisting of agents from the film industry,
Jorge Pardo and company pulled several scores off the album. Fernando Bravo, Antonio
Ximénez, Antonio Ramos and Ove Larsson on wind instruments; Musiquita on
piano and arrangements; Juan Diego on flamenco guitar; Carles Benavent on bass;
Tino di Geraldo on drums; and Tomasito on bailaor and clapping biorhythm, shook
hands with Jorge Pardo on saxophones and flute, leading across the board. The
concert, despite the necessary cuts imposed by the gala's script, worked out firmly,
elegantly, with mastery and a touch of cordiality that instantly captured the
audience. It's now known that it is possible to take 'Mira' up on stage, it's
now known that it's a truly great show, the wish now being that the experience
be repeated.
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