The “Music in San Martín” association organized a charity event on May 3 to collaborate with the damages of the Bahía Blanca Music, caused by flooding. The entrance was $ 10,000 and managed to raise six hundred thousand pesos. Local musicians and bahienses participated in the orchestra.
“I don’t know what the specific damage were well but they lost many instruments, they covered them from the water. The idea was from the outset not collecting anything from the theater to the musicians and we also achieved in addition to the collection of the entries, we managed to donate two violins and a trumpet,” says Arturo Olcese, the organizer of the event, along with his sister Gabriela Olcese, and treasurer of the foundation.
The play was presented at the Theater of the Association of Music in San Martín, a non -profit civil entity that is dedicated to the promotion of cultural activities, with a main accent in instrumental and classical music but also. The idea of the event emerged from Gabriela Olcese as he chatted by phone with Jeremiah Petruf, concert violinist of the Bahía Blanca Symphony Orchestra, together they devised her.
The orchestra that played that Saturday was one of a camera, which means a reduction of a large orchestra, in this case they played between 10 and 12 musicians in which Petruf was, Lucas Brass, a violoncello soloist from the National Symphony Orchestra and María Eugenia Marchionni in piano. The repertoire included pieces by Antonio Vivaldi, José Bragato and Astor Piazzolla. “It has violins has a viola, I have two counterbacies, a cello, a small conformation but generated something big,” says Arturo Olcese. The musicians arrived mostly through Petruf, Olcese confirms that when the field of orchestras in Argentina was a boy, they were handled with acquaintances for the call, which contacted Gabriela Olcelse. The Youth Orchestra, the Youth Symphony of Buenos Aires, also participated with the inclusion of three boys playing: a 16 -year -old violinist and two 18/19 -year -old boys.
“Spaces such as theaters and conservatories have a very large importance that is not as treated as it should. A boy who is an instrumentalist since child Arturo Olcete before confirming that all collections are already in the hands of the conservatory
