{"id":10692,"date":"2021-09-20T06:37:23","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T06:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/the-deep-song-contest-of-1922\/jayulladas-caracoladas-and-pipirranas\/"},"modified":"2021-10-25T07:53:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T07:53:55","slug":"jayulladas-caracoladas-and-pipirranas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/the-flamenco-song-contest-of-1922\/jayulladas-caracoladas-and-pipirranas\/","title":{"rendered":"Food and wine celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"

The dates prior to the Flamenco Song Contest were consumed between flamenco parties (‘caracolas’ in the Chirim\u00edas House; gazpachadas on the hottest days and jayulladas<\/u><\/em> (from ‘hallulla’, an Albaic\u00edn Quarter term adapted by the Spanish Language Academy that alludes to a “bread that is baked in embers, in bricks or very hot stones”). In the days before the contest Manuel \u00c1ngeles Ortiz<\/a> recalls a jayullada at the Bar El Tres y Medio, in the Albaic\u00edn, with Ni\u00f1a de los Peines<\/a>, Antonio Chac\u00f3n<\/a>, La Malena, La Macarrona, Manuel Torre<\/a> and the organizers, among them Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca, which ended at dawn in San Nicol\u00e1s Square<\/a>, the failed stage of the contest. \u00c1ngeles himself was in charge of drawing the costumes designed by Zuloaga<\/a>. Meanwhile, the selective tests of the contestants took place in the Casa de Castril.<\/p>\n

The Carmen de los M\u00e1rtires then the Meersmans Museum of Antiquities, was finally chosen as the venue for Zuloaga’s exhibition. The Basque painter arrived by train on May 30. After visiting San Nicol\u00e1s Square, and in view of the expectations raised, they decided to move the contest to the Plaza de los Aljibes in the Alhambra<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Banquet<\/a>
Banquet held at the Granada Journalists Association on June 16, 1922. Participants included Nicol\u00e1s Mar\u00eda L\u00f3pez, Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Rodr\u00edguez Acosta, Juan Gallego y Bur\u00edn, Santiago Rusi\u00f1ol, Ursula Grenville, Manuel de Falla, Leight Henry, Ignacio Zuloaga, Ram\u00f3n G\u00f3mez de la Serna, Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca, Melchor Fern\u00e1ndez Almagro, Kurt Schindler, Antonio L\u00f3pez Sancho, \u00c1ngel Barrios, Constantino Ruiz Carnero, Jos\u00e9 Aguilera, Edgar Neville, Narciso de la Fuente, Mauricio Legendre, Valent\u00edn \u00c1lvarez de Cienfuegos, Cagancho the bullfighter, Antonio Gallego y Bur\u00edn, Jos\u00e9 Garc\u00eda Carrillo, J. B. Trend, Jos\u00e9 Acosta Medina. Photo: Henares. Manuel de Falla Archive.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On June 7, an evening was organized in the theater of the Hotel Alhambra Palace<\/a> that has gone down in history: The vice president of the Centro Art\u00edstico<\/a>, Antonio Gallego Bur\u00edn<\/a>, read an excerpt from the work of Manuel de Falla<\/a> on deep song; guitarist Manuel Jofr\u00e9 played a petenera and a seguiriya and Lorca read for the first time a preview of the Poem of the Deep Song<\/em><\/a>, which was not published until 1931, and which included the Little Ballad of the Three Rivers<\/em>. The event was capped by Andr\u00e9s Segovia, who appeared with his teacher, the guitarist Porcel, Ni\u00f1o de Baza<\/em>, with some soleares. El Defensor\u2019s<\/em> headline said that the evening was really Federico’s: “Granada has a poet. This boy, dreamer and in love with the beautiful and the sublime, tomorrow will be a poet”.<\/p>\n

Isabel Garc\u00eda Lorca<\/a>, who was eleven years old at the time and attended one of the auditions at the Casa de los Tiros where Manolo Caracol<\/a> performed, remembers Federico repeating over and over again these lyrics: \u201cNo quiero comer contigo [“I don’t want to eat with you] \/ gallinas ni pavos reales; [chickens or peacocks;] \/ quiero comerme unas sopas [I want to eat some soups] \/ con persona que me iguale\u201d. [with someone who is my equal”.]<\/p>\n

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The Plaza de los Aljibes is inside the grounds of the Alhambra in Granada, and in 1922 it was the venue for the first Flamenco Song Contest.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Granada was preparing for the two big days. The organizers, who had finally found the right chair in a catalog, recommended that women wear “the wonderful romantic costume of the 1830s and 1840s,” like the figurines of Mariana Pineda<\/em><\/a> or Do\u00f1a Rosita the Spinster<\/em><\/a>, the poem \u201cNineteenth Century Poem by a Native of Granada” that Lorca wrote in 1935, and men Andalusian hats with the warning that top hats and formal suits were forbidden.<\/p>\n

Zuloaga began to decorate the square late on June 12 with “luminous and colorful hangings, coppers and shawls”, and to arrange the lighting that was to give the spectator the impression of a “fire in the Alhambra”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Apart from Stravinski and Ravel who, despite Falla’s insistence, were not invited due to lack of municipal budget, the list of attendees and guests from all over was extraordinary. Eduardo Molina Fajardo summarizes it: Ursula Greville, English singer; the director of the Schola Cantorum of New York, Kurt Schindler; from London came the director of the Fanfare<\/em> magazine, Leigh Hennry; two old acquaintances of Falla, Maurice Legendre and the critic of The Times<\/em> John B. Trend; the Dukes of Alba; writers Ram\u00f3n G\u00f3mez de la Serna, Edgar Neville and Ram\u00f3n P\u00e9rez de Ayala; musicians Fern\u00e1ndez-Arb\u00f3s and \u00d3scar Espl\u00e1, plus old and young singers guitarists, dancers, journalists and, of course, fans, some experienced and others novices. The jury was also ready: Antonio Chac\u00f3n and Andr\u00e9s Segovia; Antonio Ortega and Gallego Bur\u00edn (Centro Art\u00edstico), Amalio Cuenca, Gregorio Abril and Jos\u00e9 L\u00f3pez Ruiz.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, when the ominous sector realized that the contest was unstoppable, they made a wish: That the Plaza de los Aljibes would sink! And the journalist Valladar added: “The stages rise again to serve as a scaffold or throne for a singer”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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