Join the Festivities: 200th Anniversary of the Nicoya Annexation with a Special Concert at the National Museum
Concert at the Museum celebrates 200 years of the Annexation
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Prepare the chonete, scarf and typical costume, join us to celebrate with music and contests the bicentennial of the Annexation of the Nicoya District to Costa Rica
It will be on Sunday, July 21 , starting at 11 am in the garden of the National Museum . The San José Concert Band prepared a repertoire with very happy music dedicated to the Guanacaste province; highlights the premiere of the work “By our will”, by the Costa Rican composer, director and arranger Víctor Hugo Berrocal, who will be the guest conductor for this concert, in addition, the Band will be accompanied by the singer, tenor Ernesto Rodríguez Montero.
The Museum and the Band invite you to bring scarves, chonetes and typical costumes to celebrate and win some of the prizes prepared for the public who attend the concert.
Admission is free for nationals and residents upon presentation of identification.
The concert “From the homeland for our will” is a tribute to Guanacaste, a diverse province, with enormous cultural and environmental wealth. A large number of the typical or folk songs that are performed in educational centers in Costa Rica come from that region, among them Punto Guanacasteco, El torito, Pasión, Amor deseasona, Pampa, Luna liberiana, Caballito nicoyano and many others. Composers such as Jesús Bonilla Chavarría, Héctor Zúñiga Rovira, Medardo Guido and Ulpiano Duarte stand out in this province.
“The commemoration of the Nicoya Party in Costa Rica will be nourished by different activities, so we invite the public to visit the MCJ pages – website and social networks – to enjoy this offer proposed by the Ministry of Culture and Youth for this month” invited the vice minister of culture Vera Beatriz Vargas León.
The Costa Rican composer Víctor Hugo Berrocal will premiere the work “By Our Will”, written especially to celebrate the bicentennial of the Annexation. Berrocal has a vast career as an arranger for popular groups, symphonic bands and even for the National Symphony Orchestra (OSN), he is a trumpeter and has a life dedicated to musical creation.
For this concert, the singer Ernesto Rodríguez Montero will accompany him, who is a tenor, professor, vocal pedagogue and researcher. He is currently the director of the School of Musical Arts at the University of Costa Rica. He has a Master’s degree in singing, and an extensive resume, with numerous performances both in Costa Rica and abroad. In 2010 and 2016 he received the National Music Award as the best singer in Costa Rica and in 2017 he was declared “Liberia’s Favorite Son.”
Repertoire
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Beneméritos by Víctor Hugo Berrocal, a work that consists of parts with styles of music that are played in the different provinces.
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The footprint of Héctor Zúñiga Rovira’s cart.
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Las Tanelas by Víctor Hugo Berrocal.
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Amor Criollo by Balo Gómez and arrangement by Berrocal.
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Aires de Pampa by Leiner Gómez and arrangement by Berrocal.
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I want to tell you so much about Ernesto Rodríguez Montero.
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By our Will by Víctor H. Berrocal. Work composed especially for the celebration of July 25 of the 200 years of the annexation of the Nicoya District to Costa Rica.
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Mosaic of parranderas, arrangement by Ronald Estrada
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I have saved from Manuel Rodríguez and Aristides Baltodano.
Press materials: 
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Wendy Segura Calderon
Press and Public Relations
Museological Projection Department
National Museum of Costa Rica
Tel. 2211-5758
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