Archive for September, 2009

Paquirri: a tragedy with 25 years of life

Saturday, September 26th, 2009

Paquirri, “Nibs” and Pozoblanco form a “whole” unbreakable since 25 years ago Francisco Rivera was fatally caught by the bull Sayalero and sew cute Bandrés in Los Llanos. Supporters, Alguacilillo health or the tragedy that evening changed the lives of bullfighting reviews the last hours of the bullfighter in Zahara de los Atunes for ABC.

At 6 in the afternoon of the September 26, Francisco Rivera did what would be his last little walk. With him were Jose Cubero “Yiyo”-which also die from a goring just a year later, and Vicente Ruiz “El Soro”.

The celebrations proceeded normally until the bullpen came in fourth bull of the afternoon, called “Nibs”. A bull that morning in the draw did not please some members of gangs. Theodore Cardador pozoalbense fan, was that morning in the yards and points out that “heard that the bull had a strange look, which seemed very ‘alive’, but I think it was a normal bull, small, like the rest of the bulls’ . But the truth is it was not like the others.

“The bull had been cast once when I was fighting with the cape, the second wine, the goring, when he led the horse. When the fuck, the clock on the square marked half-past seven o’clock. “After the butt-Guillen continues,” everything was a mess, there was great excitement. Proof of this is that those who carried him to the infirmary on wings’ entered the alley by the bullpen door, which was the farthest to Nursing intervenes Luis Lopez, who witnessed that afternoon.

Insufficient tourniquet
In its wake, Paquirri was leaving a blood trail, which cut the tourniquet that made him a member of his gang. In the infirmary was Juan Calero. In its more than ninety years, the practitioner of the plaza, still remembers that the torero de Zahara de los Atunes tried to reassure everyone.

Just over half an hour was Paquirri in the infirmary of the place, as it decided to move to Cordova, where we expect Dr. Ramon Vila. The destination was the Hospital Reina Sofia, but had to stop at the Military Hospital. Paquirri was dying.
Meanwhile, in Pozoblanco, had continued the celebration, but nothing was like before. The fans who packed the stands waiting for news they wanted to know what happened to the bullfighter. Jose Luis Ballesteros, amateur, went home with concern for the state of diestrus. “We stayed stone Paquirri knowing that he had died, we could not believe it.”

The news spread like wildfire through the town, the fair was no longer synonymous with celebration and announced the herd was suspended for the next day, which was announced Manuel Diaz ‘Manolo’, a student at the School of Cordoba Taurine, which later changed his nickname by ‘The Cordoba.

Musicians mourn the death of the most famous pianist’s

Saturday, September 26th, 2009

Madrid, 26 sep (EFE) .- The world of music today deplored the death of Alicia de Larrocha, to which his colleagues did not hesitate to qualify as the best pianist in the history of Spain, an interpreter who represented “all values of great art “and was a reference, among other things, for his honesty and dedication.

“Alicia has always been a reference for me since I started my studies looked, listened, fascinated by his master, for his playing,” said told EFE today Rosa Torres Pardo, one of the most famous Spanish pianists .

Rosa Torres Pardo for today is “a very sad day” because it is the first without Alicia de Larrocha, died last night in Barcelona at age 86.

“She has been an important example for all my generation, we have all followed suit,” he stressed, pointing to de Larrocha was the Spanish pianist “most recognized” and a performer who has led the worldwide Spanish repertoire.

And especially one of his masterpieces, the suite “Iberia” Albéniz composed “to be played by men, because precise control” which, however, took into Alicia de Larrocha at “its highest representative” because she “has given known throughout the world. ”

For Javier Perianes, one of the most outstanding young pianists Spanish, De Larrocha “has been and will be a reference not only for Spanish pianists, for any musician with sensibility, not just classic because it represented the full value of the great art.

“He walked with the Spanish music of the biggest baton because it was the largest. His death is a loss for the music outstanding, but we still have his memories, his recordings,” says this artist who received a two-hour class Alicia de Larrocha he was left taped “humility and honesty really great” and that, as a spectator of his concerts, can not forget “magic moments” that underpin “the titanic scale of this artist.

One of his disciples, Luis Hernando Perez, who studied “six or seven years” at the Academy of Alicia de Larrocha in Barcelona, it is also willing to say that she has been “the greatest pianist of Spanish history and one of the main promoters of Spanish music in the world.

In his classes “taught me about the whole balance, serenity, temper when playing and always advised me to go little by little,” explained the pianist who in 2007 published a recording of the “Iberia” sponsored by whom was his interpreter par excellence.

“I recorded it, brought it home and two days later called me and said he had heard three times and had been delighted,” recalls pianist proud that ensures that this work, along with compositions by Granados, was ” the bible of the artist.

“As a perfectionist he wanted eternal to live another hundred years” but in reality, “has left very little to do,” especially by the Spanish music that has “been around the world” at their concerts and their “more than forty disks. ”

“Unfortunately in the country have made little homage,” he lamented.

Cristobal Halffter or composers as Tomás Marco have also expressed grief over the death of the pianist.

Halffter, “close friend” of “the great lady of the piano,” he told EFE that all professionals “will forever in the memory” because he was an artist “exceptional” Marco Thomas asserted that “no one has represented as the ideals of the Spanish music “and was an” exceptional pianist “whose talent is recorded in” recordings which are still canon, especially the suite Iberia, and has left a legacy. EFE

Lola Duenas, Silver Shell at San Sebastian for “Me, too”

Saturday, September 26th, 2009

San Sebastián, 26 sep (EFE) .- She was quite clear, because I knew the character of Lola, the disenchanted and lonely woman who finds life in a boy with Down syndrome the solution to loneliness in “I, too, “was the role of his life, and the Silver Shell at San Sebastian Festival endorses it.

It is the first starring role of Lola Dueñas, winner of a Goya as supporting actress for “The Sea Inside” by Amenabar, and another candidate for “Volver,” Almodovar, a character who, as explained to Efe, came hands of Alvaro Antonio Naharro Shepherd, who debuted with this film.

“I, too,” whose premiere is scheduled for Oct. 16, tells the relationship between Daniel, a young 34 year old Seville, after becoming the first European student with Down syndrome, began to work in an office of the Administration where he meets Laura, who falls from the outset.

Lola Duenas, who know nothing Pastor Navarro and felt that “something came up between the three” was a little unsure at first meeting with Pablo Pineda, who portrays Daniel and has become the first syndrome Down in getting an international prize as the Silver Shell “Then I realized that Paul was a very special person, yes, has Down syndrome, but it’s different,” says the actress, who acknowledges that when he met was so excited that he could not help and cried. “Therefore, he adds, and how did the shoot, I think there will be a before and after in my career.”

“I, too,” starring Isabel García, Pedro Alvarez, Consuelo Trujillo and Daniel Parejo, is for Lola Duenas, a film discussion. “We are all very well run by friendly people and very professional, and it shows,” says.

“Everybody should see,” recommended “so that they realized that people with Down, although different, have their own feelings and desires.”

Lola Duenas prepares to make the professional leap from the hand of French filmmaker Alix Delaporte, with a small role in Spanish. “So far I have been very selective about my roles, I am going to work harder, even starting from scratch, because work is the best way to learn”. EFE

The budget set the deficit at 5.4%

Saturday, September 26th, 2009

The Government approved on Saturday the General State Budget (PGE) for 2010, With a deficit of 5.4% for central government, three points less than previously forecast and expenditure cuts of 3.9%, representing an effort to contain spending on all non-priority items.

Salgado told most of the adjustment in employment has been done, but the rate of unemployment is 17.9% this year, In 18.9% in 2010 and 18.4% in 2011. “We hope that the measure does not exceed 19%,” he said, acknowledging, however, that, being an average, the rate may exceed this figure in some time next year.

In his view, the budget begins the road to rebalancing public accounts, but always under the condition of not removing the economic incentives and tax until the recovery is “bound”, as agreed yesterday the G-20 and as already highlighted the Ecofin. “Of course you are applying and good examples of this are the Budget,” he said.

It expects revenue to rise 21%

According to the figures, the revenue, after the transfer to local authorities, will reach 121.626 million euros next year, by 21.2% over the projected liquidation of 2009, while expenditures are set at 185,249 million euros, 3.9% less.

Of the 5810 million more revenue by tax increases about 2810 million will go to the local authorities. The other 3,000 million remain in the State during 2010 to reduce the deficit. This causes the expected state deficit now stands at 5.4% for 2010, three tenths less, and also in all public administrations, to 8.1%.

Asked about how he will get that revenue figure, Salgado said some measures implemented in 2009 will be offset, in part, in 2010, while the crisis will reduce its effects, allowing the collection of various taxes begin to recover next year, excluding VAT, which will down for loss of business profits.

On the expenditure item, reiterated that the limit is 185.249 million, slightly higher than that raised in the month of June, but said the government is failing in that month as approved by Parliament, because there just is approved a goal of deficit that follows after the spending limit.

Curbing spending

Salgado said that the fall of 3.9% should be compared with the cost eventually executed in 2009, rising at 16.898 million due to tax measures and additional items for social protection, especially to the unemployed to overcome the effects of the crisis.

In particular, said that personal spending will grow by 2.7% in 2010 due to salary increases of 0.3% for general government, 0.3% for the financing of pension plans for public employees, the freeze the salaries of officials and reducing the supply of public employment.

This increase was allocated mainly to the ministries of justice and home affairs and should not be both salary increases and a higher staffing to meet the modernization of justice.

Social spending is half of the expenditure

However, 51.6% of spending is allocated to social spending, 21% for transfers to other government, 6.3% R & D and infrastructure, 6.6% for the payment of debt interest , 6.2% to finance basic public services and the remaining 8.3% to other economic activities.

Salgado said that the budgets are based on the macroeconomic prepared in June by the Executive, which provides year fall of 3.6% of GDP for 2009 and 0.3% for 2010. In his view, the Government still agrees with these forecasts, as indicated by recent data.