update our input 9-VIII-2010 with a translation of the text of Apelles Mestres, courtesy of Jose Manuel Colubi. Our thanks to Jose Manuel and Jose Luis Navarro, for the efforts.
E n one of his letters viatje on Sevilla, which appeared in the Catalan magazine of literature, arts and sciences The Renaxensa of 15-VII-1875 , Apelles Mestres us to the Silverio Café, with its roof smoked, their lines of chamomile, their cries of dancers and singers longer ... a Lent.
aim a sentence , 1875 Silverio, who kindly spoke to our guest:
"Yo So Tamberlick com, the merits and has anat s'en, no month 'ns is the fame ..."
"I'm like Don Tamberlick , the credit is gone, we only have the fame ..."
The Renaxensa , July 15 , 1875
... And since it is excited to see a foreigner, a cabaret trasportémonos to see flamenco dancing, the Café de Silverio, for example. Under a ceiling blackened by smoke from majas situáis I decorated with bouquets of roses and nice people with his hat tilted to the neck, the gifts offered reeds. In one corner of the room, on a small tablao and under a canopy of many colors, feel the dancers and singers lined up. Before the dance, I want to explain the labels should be stored in such places.
What will you take? Naturally, chamomile. Ask, therefore, can be ordered at least half a dozen rods, Served on a cane, "you know all the rods are merely vessels narrow and elongated. Before drinking would be the worst rude not to offer that you have pestles closer. If they accept the offer, as is custom-tested and deliver the cane liquor. Then pull the manzanilla pestle air and catches it with the cane without losing a drop, and using the foam that causes the fluid mixed, drinks it in one gulp, letting something like half a finger. All these rules of civility and good sense must learn or else you will make the sad role as a poor man in society. Moreover, pestles, and especially the nice people that are around we will give you continually offering you a beer after another. As the number of rods will understand that empties each throat each night is exorbitant, but the chamomile hardly rises to the head.
Suddenly, you hear the guitar, hands and feet above the tablao bells. Stops short all the uproar and attention and the eyes are fixed on the players unanimously. After an hour of prelude to the guitar, the singer breaks with ay longer than a Lent strums the guitar non-stop and finally start that song monotonous to the uninitiated, as sweeping for diletantti, in which four verses or three I entertain a quarter hour, the singer has in hand a stick with which marks on the floor or in the bar of the chair, as required by the case because, if you think it is a matter of taking a joke, I would discourage the severity Germanic singer, guitarist, and that palms are properly harmonized in a way the choir, the redness of the first one hoarse holding their breath as long as possible-this is the great quality of a good singer, and finally nothing interrupted attention of the listeners. At the end of the stanza, the audience breaks into shock and olés! loud and the dancers are planted in a jump in the middle of the tables. Then, dance the dances that stunned and drunk only to see them. Imagine the tarantula, the Bayadere, the Bacchae in orgies held in honor of Priapus. Only then you can understand what you are delusional, fast-paced, the voluptuous those hassles. After the dance the dancers are exhausted and panting ... I was stunned. I imagined waking from a dream. - This is nothing! "I said I had a nice next to me, referring to the dancer to dance not seen nothing like dancing ****, but one day he dropped a league, was a piece of tape, and has not embarrassed to dance more than it is.
In between, the same Silverio, the most authoritative singer from Andalusia, came to honor us at our own table, accepting a straw. After telling his long career ended by saying: "I'm like Don Tamberlick, the credit is gone, we can only fame.
a drunk in these places is an extraordinary thing, but if there is one that promotes a scandal is immediately ejected from the courtroom.
In the next letter, I'll finish talking about Sevilla and we get to visit the ruins of Italica and the Monastery of San Isidoro del Campo.
To our knowledge, on this first store on Calle Silverio Rate (formerly the Recreation Hall) there are two texts published in the same decade as the present one: a merciless description Agustín Moya appeared in the Bulletin Gaditano June 1878 (1), and some notes of Olivares de la Peña in his book World in hand, also in 1878 (2). Certain matches
make us suspect that Olivares de la Peña was inspired by the text of Apelles Mestres. Mestres
: "Under a ceiling blackened by smoke from majas situáis I decorated with bouquets of roses and nice people with his hat tilted to the neck, the gifts offered canes ..."
the Olivares Peña : "... a thick atmosphere and smoked ceiling. We found every table occupied by funny majas covered with flowers, and cool with the slouch hat on head took pains in gifts, offering them with a graceful gesture chamomile rods ... "Mestres
: " ... the redness of the first to be hoarse holding their breath as long as possible-this is the great quality of a good singer-... "
de la Peña Olivares : " breathe ...- in as little as possible all the grace of the good lies singer-livid countenance ... "
(1) vine. Gamboa: A History of the flamenco , Espasa Calpe, 2005, pg.
306 (2) vine. José Luis Navarro: Telethusa De La Macarrona. Andalusian and flamenco dancing , Home Publishing, 2002, pp. 279 and 287
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