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Hay que realizar con lo latinoamericano algo semejante a lo que Wagner realizó con lo romántico y lo alemán. Esto, desde luego, muy lejos del monstruoso intento de construir Tetralogías indias o de escribir dramas líricos en que veamos cantar a Bolívar en dúo con San Martín en la famosa entrevista de Guayaquil. Pero es indudable que Wagner se valió de sus mitos, de su patrimonio cultural, como nosotros, tarde o temprano, tendremos que valernos de nuestros mitos y de nuestro ubérrimo patrimonio cultural(8).La defensa del Romanticismo como definitorio para el ser de América Latina quedaría relegada, en el propio año 1949, con la edición de su novela El reino de este mundo, precedida por el célebre prólogo en el que formula el concepto de “lo real maravilloso americano”, a la luz del cual su obra ha sido explicada y juzgada, a veces demasiado al pie de la letra.
Pero el cuadro de las grandezas estaba allá, en el salón de los bailes y recepciones, de los chocolates y atoles de etiqueta, donde historiábase, por obra de un pintor europeo que de paso hubiese estado en Coyoacán, el máximo acontecimiento de la historia del país. Allí un Montezuma entre romano y azteca, algo César tocado con plumas de quetzal, aparecía sentado en un trono cuyo estilo era mixto de pontificio y michoacano, bajo un palio levantado por dos partesanas, teniendo a su lado, de pie, un indeciso Cuauhtémoc con cara de joven Telémaco que tuviese los ojos un poco almendrados. Delante de él, Hernán Cortés con toca de terciopelo y espada al cinto – puesta la arrogante bota sobre el primer peldaño del solio imperial-, estaba inmovilizado en dramática estampa conquistadora. Detrás, Fray Bartolomé de Olmedo, de hábito mercedario, blandía un crucifijo con gesto de pocos amigos, mientras Doña Marina, de sandalias y huipil yucateco, abierta de brazos en mímica intercesora, parecía traducir al Señor de Tenochtitlán lo que decía el Español. Todo en óleo muy embetunado, al gusto italiano de muchos años atrás […] con puertas al fondo cuyas cortinas eran levantadas por cabezas de indios curiosos, ávidos de colarse en el gran teatro de los acontecimientos, que parecía sacados de alguna relación de viajes a los reinos de la Tartaria…(14)Recuérdese el papel simbólico y premonitorio que el cuadro Explosión en una catedral de Monsú Desiderio tiene en El siglo de las luces. Este “óleo histórico” desempeña un rol semejante.
-“Buen asunto; buen asunto para una ópera…”- decía el fraile, pensando, de pronto, en los escenarios de ingenio, trampas, levitaciones y machinas, donde las montañas humeantes, apariciones de monstruos y terremotos con desplome de edificios, sería del mejor efecto, ya que aquí se contaba con la ciencia de maestros tramoyistas capaces de remedar cualquier portento de la naturaleza, y hasta de hacer volar un elefante vivo, como se había visto recientemente en un gran espectáculo de magia.(19)Efectivamente, la ópera veneciana se había convertido en las primeras décadas del siglo XVIII en un espectáculo sui géneris. Quedaban atrás los empeños del siglo anterior por resucitar la tragedia griega y dar jerarquía a la palabra por encima del lucimiento vocal. El desarrollo de la técnica del canto convirtió a la voz humana en instrumento dominante y a ella subordinaron el resto de los elementos de la representación: comenzaba el imperio de las primas donnas y los castrati. Por otra parte, mientras en Roma la ópera seguía siendo cosa de las élites, en Venecia ella se aburguesó y sentó sus reales en los teatros públicos. Los asistentes de cualquier condición estaban interesados solamente en los pasajes de virtuosismo cantados por los solistas y en la brillantez y variedad de las tramoyas. El argumento pasó a ser apenas un pretexto.
“Buen músico – dijo Antonio-, pero muy anticuado, a veces, en sus propósitos. Se inspiraba en los temas de siempre: Apolo, Orfeo, Perséfona - ¿hasta cuándo?”-“Conozco su Oedipus Rex – dijo el sajón-: Algunos opinan que en el final de su primer acto -¡Gloria, gloria,gloria, Oedipus uxor!- suena a música mía.”-“Pero…¿cómo pudo tener la rara idea de escribir una cantata profana sobre un texto en latín? – dijo Antonio. – “También tocaron su Canticum Sacrum en San Marcos(23)- dijo Jorge Federico-: Ahí se oyen melismas de un estilo medieval que hemos dejado atrás hace muchísimo tiempo.”- “Es que esos maestros que llaman avanzados se preocupan tremendamente por saber lo que hicieron los músicos del pasado – y hasta tratan, a veces, de remozar sus estilos. En eso, nosotros somos más modernos. A mí me importa un carajo saber cómo eran las óperas, los conciertos, de hace cien años. Yo hago lo mío, según mi real saber y entender, y basta”(24).En el diálogo, se encadena la crítica a Stravinski con la vuelta a la mirada sobre América, la alusión de Handel a una afirmación del ruso: el que Vivaldi había escrito en realidad seiscientas veces el mismo concierto, el Cura Rojo replica que aún así, él no había llegado a componer una polca de circo para elefantes, refiriéndose a la Circus polka que Stravinski creó en 1942 en Estados Unidos, por encargo del empresario Barnum. Sin embargo eso hace afirmar a Handel: “Ya saldrán elefantes en tu ópera sobre Montezuma”(25). Cuando el Indiano protesta de que en México no hay elefantes, el sajón se apoya en las tapicerías del Quirinal dedicadas a “los portentos de las Indias” donde estos paquidermos aparecen junto a panteras, pelícanos y papagayos. Una vez más se reitera el motivo de la “invención de América” que presidirá toda la representación.
[…]la Tierra esta, bastante jodida a ratos, no era ni tan mierda ni tan indigna de agradecimiento como decían algunos – que era, dijérase lo que se dijera, la Casa más habitable del Sistema- y que el Hombre que conocíamos, muy maldito y fregado en su género, sin más gentes con quienes medirse en su ruleta de mecánicas solares (acaso Elegido por ello, nada demostraba lo contrario) no tenía mejor tarea que entenderse con sus asuntos personales. Que buscara la solución de sus problemas en los Hierros de Ogún o en los caminos de Eleguá, en el Arca de la Alianza o en la Expulsión de los Mercaderes, en el gran bazar platónico de las Ideas y artículos de consumo o en la apuesta famosa de Pascal & Co. Aseguradores, en la Palabra o en la Tea – eso era cosa suya. Filomeno, por lo pronto, se las entendía con la música terrenal – que a él, la música de las esferas, lo tenía sin cuidado(39).La novela concluye con una estruendosa coda en la que se mezclan: la trompeta de Armstrong tocando sus blues apoyada por un jazzband, que se confunde con el motete del Espejo de paciencia, el “Aleluya” del oratorio Mesías de Handel, referencias musicales bíblicas(40) y la propia trompeta de Filomeno. No es posible desechar la idea de que en la imagen final de este haya un inconsciente homenaje intertextual al final de la ópera Johnny dirige la danza de Krenek, en el que el músico negro toca su violín sobre el reloj de la estación de trenes, que se convierte en globo luminoso y desde allí conduce a todos en el baile.
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Sección Oikos, con fotos de Juan Carlos Agüero. Dedicada a mostrar la wildlife del Sur de la Florida, es el espacio green (cada sábado) del blog Gaspar, El Lugareño. Agradezco a Juan Carlos que haya aceptado tener una sección fija en nuestra casa virtual. (ver website Anhinga Wildlife)
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Alberto Cutié sorprendió a todos (incluyendo al arzobispo Mons. Favalora) en el día de ayer, al convocar a una Conferencia de Prensa televisada para anunciar que abandona la Iglesia Católica y que se decidió (finalmente) a formar parte de la comunidad de la Iglesia Episcopal.
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(Agradezco a Juan Antonio García que haya enviado la Introducción de su nuevo libro Bloguerías - presentado ayer en Camagüey-, para ser publicada en el blog Gaspar, El Lugareño).
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Aunque había anunciado que presentaría, este trabajo dividido en cuatro partes, les presento (en primicia del blog Gaspar, El Lugareño) el paper "The Dissident Cross: The Catholic Church and Political Confrontation in Cuba" by Robert A. Portada III, PhD in Political Science (University of Notre Dame, In, 2009), de manera completa (debido a que varios se han comunicado solicitando que sea de esta manera).In the first years of the Revolution, there was much tension, discrimination, and incomprehension…The 60s and 70s were periods of tension, of a lack of liberty. The one social aspect of this time present in Cuba that was against the Revolution was Catholic social doctrine. For example, the church didn’t accept the elimination of private property, much less the total state monopoly over Cuban society (Becerril 2006).But church leaders did not have the tools to promote their social doctrine, much less stop the processes of nationalization and socialization of education and social services. By 1962, 70 percent of Catholic priests and 90 percent of Catholic religious fled or were forced to leave, though by 1963 some had decided to return (Crahan 1999: 108). Mons. Alfredo Petit, currently Auxiliary Bishop of Havana, reflects on the social delegitization of Catholicism that accompanied the institutional decimation of the Catholic Church: “Our private schools were nationalized. Catholics were excluded from all public life, they couldn’t profess their faith openly” (Petit 2006). Mons. Petit was among a group of Catholic priests that were taken to military detention camps in the mid-1960s, along with individuals from other groups deemed socially undesirable and untrustworthy for incorporation into the revolutionary armed forces. These Military Units to Aid Production (UMAPs) were later admitted as errors by the Castro government and closed down in 1968 (Kirk 1989: 68). But the damage was done. The members of the church that were brought to the camps, a group that included the current Cardinal Jaime Ortega, would not forget the experience.
It was a great pastoral letter, but the government didn’t understand it. It was written in a tone of confrontation…The position of the church was no longer so defensive. Many of the fears were eliminated, due to the fall of the socialist camp. All that had happened before – the persecution – had ended. Many things stated in the letter began to be addressed in a round-about way through the media. It was a way of addressing real problems (De la Vega 2006).Here, Padre De la Vega refers to the limited targets the bishops chose to confront: the one-party system headed by Fidel Castro was not outrightly denounced, but the bishops did choose to critique certain social, political, and economic ills. Even more direct is Mons. Petit, Auxiliary Bishop of Havana, responding to the charge that government officials felt the letter was too tough a critique: “El amor todo lo espera was just, not tough…it speaks of the reality here, and it continues to represent the truth…I was one of the writers…We said what we said because nobody had ever said anything like that before” (Petit 2006).
The mission of the Church is not political; its mission is not to intervene directly in the exercise of civil power, nor in the oppositional structures of power, nor support one or another party, nor recommend a candidate party up for vote in an election. In the political debate amongst parties that confront one another or join in ideological or strategic alliances the Church must be neutral, although it is a part of its ethic that the rights of everyone be respected in this debate (COCC 2003).Recognition of the idea that such a debate should occur, even without identifying the specifics of what political issues or ideas should be included in Cuba’s public discourse, is in itself perceived by the regime as an act of confrontation. Church leaders do not endorse particular parties but they decry the fact that political options are not offered by the Cuban political system. Catholic laypeople need only be loyal to the Catholic Church, and must necessarily base their political choices on Christian ethics. The church, then, would be against any system that did not provide for political choices among which Christians could choose.
When one identifies the ideology of the government with all the juridical order and the ethical reality of the country, he is equating society with the State and in this way the State converts itself equally in the conscience of all the citizens…It is imperative to keep in mind that, actually, all thought and action does not coincide with the official ideology…” (COCC 2003).The virtues of Marxism are not attacked; rather, the State ideology is criticized only to the extent that it does not represent all the realities to be found in Cuba nor in the conscience of every citizen. In this passage, the bishops hope to position the Catholic Church as the one institution that recognizes the plurality of Cuban culture, even as they follow their mission to evangelize the population and advocate a single morality, based on Christian ethics.
Relations between the Catholic church and the government are stable, more or less. They are relations of coexistence. The church has a specific objective of getting control of education and healthcare. These interests haven’t changed. They want them as they used to have them here, and like they have them in other countries, but here that is the work of the government, not the church (Pérez 2006).Education and healthcare are two areas of heightened contention, as these fields constituted the most touted achievements of the Revolution yet have historically been included in the domain of the Catholic Church: “After the ‘special period’ began they hoped to give they people a ‘little snack’ and health services. But that is the responsibility of the government, not the church” (Pérez 2006). To highlight the hypocrisy of the church, she discussed the example of Cuban provincial schools, located primarily in the country. Church leaders have spoken against these schools, saying they break up the family structure, because children normally must attend school in the country for a period of approximately two weeks, visit home for a weekend, and then return to the countryside again. But, she argued, don’t the monasteries and seminaries do the same thing? In the end, according to Sra. Pérez, the schools only give a percentage of a child education and the rest must come from the family.
No – the church has always been of the opinion that our faithful is free to participate in politics. After declaring yourself faithful, all our faithful are free to choose any political path, it’s the freedom that the church proposes, not that they must choose certain parties. The church, the hierarchy, has always been at the service of everyone. There are Catholics that are communist, that are liberal, the church is open to everything. There is no coalition between the church and a political party. I am a layperson, and the hierarchy has never told me what the best political option is. But the church is against the lack of options in our political system (Suárez 2006).This caveat allows the Cuban Church to position itself against the socialist system without denouncing it. However, it has not convinced the regime that there is not more than a symbolic relationship between the Cuban Church and Cuba’s dissidents. According to Sra. Pérez, “The few counterrevolutionaries we have here, miserable as they are, hold their meetings in the Catholic church because they give them the space. The pulpit should not be used for counterrevolutionary activities. They must recognize, for example, that if you believe in Christ, I believe in Castro. They must respect that” (Pérez 2006).
Society wants the church to join with the social revolutionary project. But they always ask for Catholic private education. They have Catholic schools for infants within the churches. We respect that because the churches are theirs. Here Catholics are not persecuted. But they have to respect our constitution and our laws. The Catholics confuse this – they talk foolishly. What they do in the church is conspiracy against the state. They should be very careful (Pérez 2006).In effect, outlining preferences for increased political pluralism, and any suggestions that dissident work may improve the political situation of the country are considered disrespecting the laws of the country, and “talking foolishly.” It is no small feat that the Cuban Catholic Church remains the one private institution functioning on the island that has not been subsumed by the state. The price for this distinction has been periods of repression and unending suspicion. Charges of conspiracy have come even as the church pursues an indirectly confrontational strategy, which makes the Cuban Church’s resistance to endorse dissident organizations or movements like the Varela Project much more logical. Maintaining this strategy requires coordination and precision, as it is apparent that no article or procession goes unnoticed by the Office of Religious Subjects. While disdaining the church, Sra. Pérez refuses to label it as a potential threat. But for all the talk of normalized relations, it is evident that the government recognizes with contempt the efforts of the church to nurture a new way of thinking in its flock. No less than the Cardinal himself has been signaled out as a target of the government’s scorn:
It doesn’t interest us when people profess religion. What interests us is that they respect the laws of the country, of the patria. Now certain processions are permitted, for example during Semana Santa. We’re not scared of that, but they must respect the public order. They organize their public activities and we don’t have absolutely any fear. But there are people that manipulate these activities. And Jaime (Cardinal Ortega) is the one who is scared. He never goes out in procession (Pérez 2006).The challenge to Cardinal Ortega here is very revealing, almost as a recognition of the extent to which the government would come down on the church if it were to organize processions without permission. Sra. Pérez displays a confidence in the oppressive apparatus of the regime to illustrate her point that the Cuban government would not fear even a directly confrontational challenge from the Cuban Church.
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Según explica el Coordinador del sitio web www.pope2you.net P. Paolo Padrini a Radio Vaticano, este portal auspiciado por el Pontificio Consejo para los Laicos, también busca "crear una comunidad de pertenencia, de participación en la Iglesia, a través de la cercanía que cada vez es más estrecha con el Santo Padre". (sigue)
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Luego del derrumbe del techo (el pasado 19 de mayo), comenzó (hoy) la demolición del Ateneo de Matanzas (detalles en Juventud Rebelde)
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Es la opinión, compartida con ZENIT de Patrick Reilly, presidente de la sociedad Cardenal Newman, organización que busca renovar y fortalecer la identidad de las universidades católicas ese país.
El año pasado, esta asociación publicó la "Guía de Newman para escoger una Universidad católica" (TheNewmanGuide.com), con el fin de orientar a los estudiantes sobre los institutos de educación superior que son fieles al sentido de la la educación católica y a la constitución apostólica Ex corde ecclesiae de Juan Pablo II, sobre la identidad y misión de las universidades católicas.
Reilly se refierea la controversia ocurrida el pasado domingo en la universidad católica de Notre Dame, situada en el estado de Indiana y una de las más prestigiosas de Estados Unidos.
Notre Dame rindió un homenaje al presidente Obama otorgándole el título de doctor honoris causa en derecho, a pesar de que en su vida política, antes y después de ser presidente, ha votado y aplicado políticas contra la vida humana, como es la promoción del aborto incluso en fases muy avanzadas de gestación, la investigación con células madres embrionarias y las fundaciones de programas de planificación familiar en Estados Unidos. (sigue)
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"... les inquieta, sin embargo, que los periódicos aborden estos temas y
publiquen las quejas de los lectores. El periodista —recomiendan— debe decirles
que hay que resistir, que la patria bloqueada exige aplazar necesidades y
querellas... No juego. Eso aconsejan algunos para evitar que la «angustia se
extienda» ..." (sigue)
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Zu Galeria Fine Arts invita, este sábado, a Noches de Poesía con William Navarrete, quien presentará su poemario "Lumbres veladas del Sur" (Ed. Aduana Vieja, Valencia, 2008).
Este sábado, 23 de Mayo a las 8pm
Presentación por Daniel Fernández
Zu Galeria Fine Arts
2248 SW 8th Street
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(President Barack Obama, standing before the U.S. Constitution,
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(The New York Times). — An unreleased Pentagon report concludes that about one in seven of the 534 prisoners already transferred abroad from the detention center in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has returned to terrorism or militant activity, according to administration officials. (read more)
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Esta serie de protestas tuvo tal vez su punto más alto con la concentración en la mencionada casa de estudios de unos tres mil estudiantes católicos que expresaron claramente su oposición a esta distinción y resaltaron que "la verdadera Notre Dame está comprometida con la santidad de la vida".
Con esta manifestación, estos católicos de Notre Dame expresaron claramente su oposición a las políticas abortistas del mandatario estadounidense que se iniciaron, siendo Presidente, cuando al día siguiente de su llegada al poder revirtiera la política de Ciudad de México con lo que ha decidido así destinar fondos federales a la promoción del aborto en el mundo.
Bastante ignorados por los medios seculares, durante el discurso de Obama un centenar de estudiantes presentes en el evento portaban cruces amarillas con pequeños pies dibujados en ellas, en clara alusión a la defensa del no nacido. Estos estudiantes permanecieron sentados, en señal de protesta, cuando el Presidente recibió el doctorado y en las distintas ocasiones en las que Obama fue ovacionado.
En días pasados, la estadounidense Mary Ann Glendon, actual Presidenta de la Pontificia Academia para las Ciencias Sociales y ex Embajadora de Estados Unidos ante la Santa Sede, también había expresado su protesta a esta distinción otorgada a Obama, rechazando un galardón que le había concedido esta casa de estudios.
Asimismo, durante el discurso de Obama, 4 activistas pro-vida fueron desalojados por la seguridad del Presidente tras recordarle con gritos a los presentes: "dejen de matar bebés" y "el aborto es una asesinato".
Para ver imágenes de la manifestación pro-vida en Notre Dame, puede ingresar a: http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/obama_notredame
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Quinteto sobre los poemas de Carlos Pintado by Pamela Marshall (2009)
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