How did this chotis by Agustín Lara get here?
Do you know how to dance to chotis?
I don't. 🤷♀
They say that it is very easy, so easy that you don't have to move from your place, from one brick to be able to dance it.
Maybe if I try to learn it and make my steps of that dance I could confirm to you if it is indeed that simple or not. At the moment, just my piano danced it under my fingers.
But why and how did it happen that I played this song, which is not actually the type of music I would usually play?
The story of this chotis dance started yesterday afternoon when I gave the lesson to one of my adult students. He has lived in Madrid but for the last few years, he and his wife have been enjoying their retirement here, in the Mediterranean. When we finished the lesson, his wife came to greet me and she mentioned their city and the big day that is celebrated today. May 15, San Isidro. She even wanted to buy a traditional dress to dance chotis (but unfortunately didn't find any). As they say, it is a tradition on this day, to dress in that traditional way and dance. They would do it with joy and a bit of nostalgia.
He asked me did I knew how to play the song, Madrid, Madrid, Madrid by the Mexican composer Agustín Lara. A famous Spanish chotis, which his mother liked too. Well, not that I ever heard about it (oops) but the challenge was accepted. I could learn it anyway.
My student and her wife were the inspiration to find the scores, learn the song (not to perfection though) and record it. Between lessons, life and more lessons, I had a few attempts to immortalize it but the thing is that at least one mistake always found its way into my playing. It was not a nice thing, but I took it relatively calmly, went to cook the lunch, and later tried again. A few times more. 😂
Finally, this is how it sounds in a piano version... in my opinion far from being perfect... and with a particular moment, that just those who will pay more attention will notice. Or maybe everyone who would like to listen to this chotis as I know, I just messed up that moment - and it is not even connected to the keys and my fingers. It is like when you dance and you make a step in the wrong direction. Not a big deal. 😁
However, for all those Hivers who are from the Spanish capital, or live there I wanted to wish with this song a happy San Isidro day. I hope they had a nice celebration today!
¡A celebrar San Isidro con chotis y un buen cocido, como manda la tradición madrileña!
🎶
¿La Internacional? 😁
Edit - ay madre...no, no. Me resultaba conocido 😁... pero ya sé qué es. No, definitivamente no es eso que dije. 🤣
Es que se parece a una parte de un himno, pero no tiene que ser. Además yo en música estoy perdida.
Qué Internacional? jajaja
Bueno, como un himno seguro que lo es - para los madrileños 😉
No, 😂 yo que escuché unas notas que se me parecían a una parte de un himno, pero no supe explicar bien. Tonterías mías, ni me hagas caso.
Te quedó muy bien y es muy alegre esa música. Nunca la había escuchado, por eso te agradezco porque he aprendido algo más. Y ya vi cómo se baila. No es para nada complicado.
Saludos, mipiano.
Entonces si vas un día a Madrid sabrás como bailar el chotis 😁
Gracias. Sí, es muy alegre. No suelo tocar música que suena como esta canción - en un momento quería borrar el vídeo jaja, pero al final lo publiqué 😅
Ay menos mal que no lo borraste. Ya vi lo que hiciste. jaja...
lo de pasar la página en otra dirección? 😂
😂
I’ve never heard of Chotis in my entire life. Also, I’m glad you could learn about it from your student
I do not know how to value the mistake but the desire to please the student and his wife with the chotis. But now to dance the best is the salsa or casino de Cuba, you can not dance on a brick you need a space for couples to recreate the steps and put what they call "sandunga" thanks for sharing. The good musician always worries about perfecting his work but if the public likes it, he is pleased. So let's dance chotis.
Oh, those dances like salsa sound very complicated to me...
So, yes, let's dance just chotis today 😁
What do you mean it's not perfect? It sounds perfect and beautiful to me! It couldn't be otherwise. What a beautiful piano. Thank you @mipiano ❤️
Hehehe, look at the 1:50-1:51 😁 (la pantalla de la tablet) - do you know what I did? 😂
No.... I see something that appears and disappears... what is it?
What appeared and disappeared were the pages that went crazy.
I turn the pages pressing a pedal that serves for that and at that moment I pressed in the wrong direction 😂 so I had to correct it quickly but still, it is one second of a vacuum in my playing 😅
Well, the empty ones are sighs.... let's see it in an artistic way, we are artists... we need to sigh!🤣
I know of that piece of music by Agustin Lara interpreted by Sara Montiel masterfully interpreted and danced as well as you say in a single brick. Look it up so you can see what a beauty it is. But I will tell you that interpreted by you it is also beautiful, it moved me. I am a lover of Spanish music. What a nice @mipiano, I congratulate you. Your students will thank you for it I am sure. Greetings.🥰❤️❤️❤️
I found and watched now the interpretation you mentioned, by Sara Montiel. Thank you ;)
And I am glad that you also found the song nice, played on the piano. It is not the same, but that is what I play 😇
First time listening to chotis, if there was a mistake I didn't notice it, for me it was perfect and for Buhito too ❤️
I imagine Buhito dancing chotis to the beat of your interpretation 🦉
Buhito would do it perfectly 😇
The song can be played on a violin too 😉
tradition and music walk together!
They do 😇
Estaba escuchando la canción y pude imaginarme a la gente bailando y se veía muy fácil en mi imaginación pero no soy instructor de baile así que mejor le decimos a tus estudiantes que te enseñen a bailar ese chotis 😁
Jajaja, no eres intructor de baile 😂 yo tampoco jaja
Por eso, yo me quedo tocando la canción y ellos dos pueden bailar así 😇
I can't believe you didn't know this song and perform it with that ease in one day. 😱 There's the talent!
I imagine you and your husband dancing the chotis and dressing the typical clothes, of course. 😂
Ps- Aunque no soy de Madrid, este día es especial para mi familia porque mi padre se llama Isidro. También era Isidro su padre y un hermano de mi madre. ☺️
I didn't know the song, that's the truth. But he comes up with so many songs, from his youth for example, and I don't know any of them hahaha
oh, no me imagines con Mr Mipiano bailando el chotis, que eso sería una catástrofe 😂
Te felicito entonces (y a tu familia), aunque ahora ya con un día de retraso 😇
I'm not Spanish and I don't live in Madrid, but my mother has always liked Agustin Lara's songs. And my father also liked them, especially the chotis and pasodobles. I hear the song and images of my parents dancing come to my mind, and I'm already humming the song, hehe.
Thank you for sharing it and bringing many sweet memories 😍
I am glad this composer brought you now these memories, @coquicoin 😇
Right now we are practising a song from Agustín Lara for a concert with the choir I play with sometimes. We already performed it a few times, but it is the song that is a part of our repertoire. Granada
Ok, we are not Plácido Domingo haha, but we are trying to give our best :D
I love that song too! And my mom has the CD of Placido Domingo performing many of Agustin Lara's songs so that performance is also a great trip down memory lane 😍
Thanks and good luck with your performance of Granada in the choir. 🤗
I certainly could not observe any of the mistake since I neither know the song nor listen to songs of that kind. Hearing it alone though, I think you opinion might be wrong. It sounds amazing to me
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