{"id":4472,"date":"2022-06-29T21:21:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T19:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/?p=4472"},"modified":"2022-06-30T06:14:33","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T04:14:33","slug":"master-jorge-ledezma-bradley-music-is-the-more-powerful-tool-to-develop-personality-emotional-richness-stability-sociability-in-a-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/2022\/06\/29\/master-jorge-ledezma-bradley-music-is-the-more-powerful-tool-to-develop-personality-emotional-richness-stability-sociability-in-a-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Master Jorge Ledezma Bradley: “Music is the more powerful tool to develop personality, emotional richness, stability, sociability in a country”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In Panama, music runs through the veins of the people,\nregardless of their origin or social class. Panamanian history is interrelated\nwith people from many parts of the world, being a meeting point for cultures\nfrom all over the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today the media and the music industry focus more on\npopular musical genres such as ballads, salsa, reggaeton, rock’n roll, among\nothers. However, classical orchestral music, although it is the oldest musical\ngenre in the Western world, has influenced all types of music that we know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For these reasons and all the potential that still needs\nto be developed in Panamanian music, the special report is with Master Jorge Ledezma Bradley.\nPanamanian musician with more than 30 years of musical career, who has\nsuccessfully conducted more than 500 symphonic concerts in Panama, Brazil,\nNicaragua, Venezuela, China (Beijing Symphony), El Salvador, Dominican\nRepublic, Colombia and Costa Rica. A pillar of Panamanian music that analyzes\nthe potential of music to elevate culture to the place it really deserves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Maestro Jorge Ledezma Bradley <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

How can music help further develop our potential\nas a country on a social and intellectual level?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMusic in ancient times was a fundamental practice in\nthe social life of communities, since people live associated in cities and\ncommunities. Around the music is the dance, the costumes and the voices. This\nmeans that the number of people who are involved in this need to make music professionally\nis increasing. However, people can perfectly well be a musician without having\nto dedicate themselves to it professionally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Music serves a great deal to interconnect the two\nbrain hemispheres, which basically are not interconnected, but music develops\nthat ability to interconnect both, in addition to being a very important social\ngatherer. There are concerts of modern singers from Europe that gather 100,000\npeople in a stadium, it is something amazing, and it multiplies even more when\nit is broadcast to other countries. Everyone who is watching the concert,\nwhether live or from a distance, is intercommunicating, a fundamental element\nfor the human species.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With 81 years of history, what do you feel it has\nbeen the importance of the National Symphony and where do you want to take it\nin the short and medium term?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cToday, symphony orchestras in general around the\nworld are a kind of meter or caliper of the country’s cultural development.\nMusic is involved with all the other arts, or other artistic disciplines that\npeople may profess or manifest. Music has the power to reach the depths of the\nhuman being, right in the area where words no longer have an effect, and where\nonly sound can reach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our orchestra wants to continue growing and we are\nworking today to increase the number of musicians, and improve the conditions\nin all aspects. At 81 years old, the orchestra is healthy, although it could be\nmuch better, but it continues to be a bastion of Panamanian culture in its\nconnection with universal culture.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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According to your analysis, what would happen if\nevery citizen in the country learned the basics to play an instrument?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe would be an unstoppable country with unique\npeople, an example to follow, because there is nothing that develops\npersonality, emotional richness, stability, sociability more than music. To\nhave hundreds or thousands of people standing in a plaza to watch a concert, of\nan orchestra or rock group, this means that music has that power to unite.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you were given the opportunity to make a\nmusical composition together with the National Symphony to promote Panama\naround the world, what would you be inspired by?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u201cObviously as a\nbasic material for the composition, whether vocal or orchestral, I would be\ninspired by the rhythms of Panamanian percussion. Very rich rhythms, but with\nmany variants such as the Congos, the bullarengue, the Azuero drum, the great\nNorth drum in Veraguas and in Chiriqui with its most characteristic\nmanifestations. That would inspire me, because there is wonderful material to\ncreate music and give us Panamanians an identity as a people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are the regions in Panama with the greatest\npotential to develop musical talent and make it an attraction for Panamanians\nand foreigners?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI would not say regions in Panama, I feel that the entire country is a musical country, which indeed has great potential to develop that talent and that there are more and more professional musicians. Yes, there are areas in Panama that are very marked by their music, for example Azuero is a musical region with a certain style, in Veraguas music is made but with variations, in Chiriqui the same. In Colon, music is very rich because of its diversity, and likewise in Darien. The entire country has a fabulous raw material, to continue deepening the musical identity of Panamanians.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photos courtesy: Master Jaime Ledezma Bradley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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