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May
6th, 2000.
Teatro Villamarta. Jerez.
En
"Ca" (In the house of...)
Fernando de la Morena.
The
witty family
Fernando de la Morena
Nearing the equator
of the festival came the sole change in the program. In Fernando de la Morena´s
family there is an abundance of "soniquetes" and curved mouths.
Fernando de la Morena
The rain. Some
stairs. The slip. Javier Baron had to cancel "Dime" (Tell me) due to an injury
in his arm and the decision taken was to substitute him by to move forward one
week the show "En ca Fernando de la Morena" and to bring it to the Villamarta
in the modality of cafe singing.
Fernando de la Morena
Baron wanted to
take to the stage a "cuarto de cabales" and that's more or less what the theatre
turned into: with their backs to the stalls, the family reunion faced around three-hundred
spectators seated at their tables with their drinks. The patriarch, Fernando el
de la Morena, greeted the public with a short cante "de trilla" and then it was
his brother Curro´s turn to perform a "solea" with that antique taste which this
family possesses as a substitute for power. Without substituting elements or artificial
coloring, because their cante is distinctive and creates a personal school. Even
the youngest of the family, Juanito de la Morena (son of Fernando), makes an effort
to use that melodious, rhythmical and remote echo... since the de la Morena clan
have a mouth that is formed in a special way. He sang the "bulerias" of "La
puntaita", as his father describes them, those of "La Isabelona",
in the same way as he recorded them in the album that the family has released.
Fernando de la Morena
Fernando brings
forth his chair and that of the tocaor, Diego de Morao, so that the crowd can
better appreciate the falling tunes "por seguiriyas de Lacherna". "Esto si
que son fatigas, que me acuesto bocabajo y amanezco bocarriba" (These are
really tiresome chores, since I lay down facing downwards and I wake up facing
upwards), he joked "por bulerias". He doesn't need such great bodily strength
when he is touched with grace and has more than enough "compás" (sense
of rhythm).
After three excellent
"fandangos", they sang a brief piece por bulerias, standing up, so as to allow
the sublime palmeros (rhythmic clappers)-taxi drivers, Rafita and Curro de la
Joaquina, to dance. The family picked up their stuff (after three-quarters of
an hour, as was scheduled) and left to go to the baptism of Enrique el Zambo.
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