The beloved lyric singer Faustina Morán, known as La Alondra camagüeyana, took her eternal flight on April 20. The news came a few days later, but it’s never too late to remember her and pay tribute to her prodigious career and her sweet singing.
In 2017 he had written a chronicle about his life and here I put it back to ask for the just applause with which the artists are dismissed.
The Lark that lulls us
Po! Po! Poo! Here goes Dolores Santa Cruz. He no longer has money, he does not eat, he does not sleep. The thieves take everything away from me. Po! Po! Poo! “The character Dolores Santa Cruz, an old black woman, poor and crazy, who with her work and economy had managed to free herself from slavery, was the subject that gave fame to the Cuban lyric singer, Faustina del Pilar Morán Primelles , in the zarzuela Cecilia Valdés.
Those who knew her say that when she went on stage to play the secondary character of the slave Dolores Santa Cruz, the audience stood up and applauded her with passion and then Faustina Morán, with her voice of trill, was able to enthuse the spectators of the Cuban capital “Po po po”, then gave the exit to scene of Cecilia, with the interpretation of the subject I am Cecilia Valdés.
I had the good fortune to meet her on April 4, about 10 years ago, the date on which, together with the pioneer organization, she celebrated her birthday very happy to feel pioneering. I recently wanted to talk with her again and remember so many stories of her singing, which she always keeps alive, even when her age is advanced. Thanks to her daughter Marielena, who grew up behind the scenes of the theater, today we can find all that life full of beauty and melody.
Outside the lyrical theater
With 94 years of age, the Alondra Camagüeyana receives in the garage of his house, in the neighborhood of La Vigía, other musicians from the house of culture Joaquín de Agüero, who for the anniversary of the city, offer a serenade to this personality of lyrical singing, which gave much glory and prestige to the city of the tinajones.
The Alondra from Camagüey, Faustina Moran, began in the artistic universe in Camagüey in 1933, shared with singers from the National Lyrical Theater, such as Ramón Zamorano and Gladys Puig, among many other figures. Her teacher was another great musician from Camagüey, Jorge Gonzales Allué .
Faustina, thanks her teacher for the patience with which she mounted the themes of her repertoire. Along with the piano of his house, also in the neighborhood of the lookout, they sang and rehearsed the songs and he demanded a lot of his work, an effort that was reverted to applause, which he conquered every Saturday, on the nights of the Santa Cecilia Society.
In the society of recreation, next to the piano of Jorge Gonzales Allué, Faustina was made known in her Camagüey, which distinguishes her for the interpretations, of love me much and flower of Yumurí. Although the National Lyric Theater, it was the most famous stage and applause offered to Faustina Moran, who is known as the Alondra Camagüeyana, never missed the opportunity to sing to her people, each time she returned from the capital, as she says, this is her home and has a special charm, since from Here, along with his teacher grew the wings that gave the lark a lyrical flight.
Translated into English by Laura Evelyn Villamar De Armas
