There was no remembered ovation as long and intense at the Palau de la Música de Valencia as this Monday night. The public, standing, did not stop applauding and chewing while entering and leaving the stage, making the musicians, the two solo singers, to the choir, to the more than 200 artists who had just offered an unforgettable version of the monumental better known as Resurrection. Unforgettable by the extraordinary and exciting interpretation of the work directed by the Venezuelan teacher and by the circumstances that have made possible the charity concert for the victims of the DANA, in particular to the 32 musical societies affected by the floods that caused 127 dead last October 29.
Pacho Flores has had a lot to do with all this. Resident in the Valencian population of Mislata, this famous trumpeter received during a concert in the US a warm solidarity applause of the public, aware of the brutal catastrophe of Valencia due to the disseminated images and the difficulties in traveling those days from there. He called his colleague and friend Dudamel, with whom he coincided in the praised public musical teaching program of both of them, Venezuela, and the thing began to roll. “Gustavo Dudamel today is an industry, but it is one of the most sensitive people I have met and accepted,” he explained in the presentation of the concert that began with his own composition Albares Concerto for fliscor and symphony orchestra.
Its mixture of sounds Caribbean and Valencians, their virtuosity and their mood, claiming the presence of the timbalero resident in Paiporta, epicenter of the tragedy, to touch the maracas next to him, they were very well received by the public, who had had to pass some discomforts to access The Chamber for the security measures imposed by the presence of Queen Sofia. The mayor of Valencia, María José Catalá, served as host of the concert organized by the Consistory and the Generalitat Valenciana. He did not attend, however, the Valencian president, Carlos Mazón, who has restricted his appearances in public after the boos and insults for his DANA management in various locations. The representation of the Valencian Government was headed by the vice president, Susana Camarero, and the vice president for reconstruction, the ex -military Francisco José Gan Pampols, who was located almost next to the government commissioner for the Dana José María Ángel, with the Minister of Culture of Culture , José Antonio Rovira, in the middle. Among the representatives of the business world, were the president of Mercadona, Juan Roig, and the president of AVE, Vicente Boluda, among others.
In addition, numerous mayors of the populations affected by the Dana attended the concert of Monday that had a prelude one day before. Dudamel directed some pieces in the Valencian district of Castellar-L’Oliverral of the repertoire offered by 150 performers of the music bands of the victims. There, he influenced “the transformative, unique and wonderful power of music” as “an element of encouragement, hope and inspiration, especially in complex and difficulty moments.”
“Teacher, you are the best,” a spectator shouted at the Palau de la Música. The joy of the public exploded as soon as the impressive last movement of Resurrection. Since he won the Gustav Mahler orchestra Management Contest of Bamberg in 2004, the 44 -year -old Venezuelan has made the music of the Austrian composer one of his hallmarks. In 2026 he will be the head of the New York Philharmonic, of which Gustav Mahler was a musical director, already with the broken health, between 1909 and 1911. Without score, with the composition inside his head and sometimes expressing it with all his Body, Dudamel seemed excited. And he turned to recognition to the interpreters, from the orchestras of Valencia (resident in the Municipal Auditorium of the Palau de la Música) and the Valencian Community (head of the opera of the Palau de Les Arts) and the Cor of the Generalitat (with reinforcements of RTVE). The director’s charisma managed to get the best of the musicians of both formations together for the occasion, according to the musical critics and, at the end of the concert, who described as memorable and historical, and which concluded with a hymn of the Valencian Community with Arrangements of Pacho Flores that sounded like never before.
