NEWS GLOBAL – El Condor pasa, the most well-known Andean music, was well-known and popular all over the world in the 1960s. The lion’s share of that, of course, was Jorge Milchberg, who adapted and recorded it.
Jorge Milchberg died in Paris at the age of 93, according to the statement made by the Embassy of Argentina in France.
The Argentine musician, who has lived in France since 1955, was born in 1928 in Buenos Aires to a Polish family. After studying piano when he was a child, he became interested in the charango, a plucked-string guitar for the Andes.
He became a member of Los Incas, an iconic Andean music group formed in Paris in the 1950s and continued for 60 years. Los Incak, the band of the legendary musician, who is also the artistic director of the band, recorded and released the Andean legend El condor pasa (Vulture passes) in 1963. They had great success. Paul Simon wrote the lyrics for this song and released it as If I Could by Simon and Garfunkel.
In fact, El Condor pasa, created in 1913 by Peruvian composer Daniel Alomia Robles, was named after the zarzuela, a musical theater genre of the same name.
Introduced to the world by Milchberg and popularized by Simon and Garfunkel, this song has now become a part of world music. With this song, the first signs of the beginning of the adaptation and re-arrangement period for many traditional music were given.
Jorge Milchberg performed with conductor Marie Laforet in 1968. He added a new interpretation to classical European music with his Charango.
WHAT IS CHARANGO?
Charango is a stringed instrument native to South America. While the resonance body was originally made using the dried shell of an armadillo, today it is mainly made of wood and rarely tortoise shell. Outwardly it resembles a guitar or oud, although its size varies widely, but is generally small.
Source: Haber Global
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