Ricardo Castro Pinto

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Ricardo Castro Pinto (born February 7, 1916 in Cusco , Peru ; † September 1, 2011 ibid) was a Peruvian musician , composer , actor , dancer and collector of traditional songs from the Cusco region in Cusco-Quechua and Spanish .

Life

Ricardo Castro Pinto was born in Cusco in 1916 in the Toqokachi (San Blas) district.

He played as an organist first in the Church of the Virgin of the Rosary (Virgen del Rosario) in Paucartambo , then from 1940 in Quiquijana (Province of Quispicanchis ) and from 1943 in the Cathedral of Cusco. In 1938 he danced the Qapaq Qolla dance at the Mamacha del Carmen festival . In 1941 he founded the Cusco Folklore Group of the Tourism Corporation. He was also a member of the Cusco Orchestra Association and the regional music school there.

In 1950 he experienced the earthquake there as a church musician in the Cathedral of Cusco . Soon afterwards he composed the score for the film Kukuli by the Cusco director Eulogio Nishiyama and took over the role of Willaq Umu as an actor in Inti Raymi . In 1958, at the instigation of the cultural elite, he replaced Cusco's Faustino Espinoza Navarro in the role of Inca .

Ricardo Castro was the founder and then director of the orchestra of the Centro Qosqo de Arte Nativo in 1958 and of the Coro Polifónico Municipal Cusco in 1965 . In 1961 he founded the association Asociación Danzas del Tawantinsuyo , with which he toured Peru and South America. He also became a member of the Academia de la Lengua Quechua (today Academia Mayor de la Lengua Quechua ) in the 1960s .

In the 1970s he helped found the Confraternidad del Señor del Temblores , which dedicated itself to the veneration of the Lord of the Earthquakes Taytacha de los Temblores . For Pope John Paul II's visit to Cusco in 1985, he composed a mass in Quechua , which was performed by the Coro Polifónico Municipal Cusco under the direction of his son Samuel Castro Yrrarazábal in the Esplanade of Sacsayhuamán .

Ricardo Castro recorded numerous melodies and texts of traditional songs over the decades, which until then had only been passed on orally, and some of them also included in the score. In 2008 he published them in the two volumes Willka Taki I, Taytanchisman Takikuna (Holy Song, Songs to Our Father) and Willka Taki II, Mamanchisman Takikuna (Holy Song, Songs to Our Mother). Some of these songs had previously been performed by the Coro Polifónico Municipal Cusco under his and later his son's direction and appeared on record or CD ( Noche Buena Imperial with Iempsa, Lima 1947 and Navidad en Cusco with Arion, Paris 1998).

In 1992 he received the medal of the Council of the Province of Cusco from Mayor Daniel Estrada Pérez as well as other awards from the daily newspaper El Sol in 2003 and the educational association Khipu in 2005.

Until his death he played the organ in the Cathedral of Cusco and the Basilica of La Merced.

family

Ricardo Castro Pinto was married twice and had eight children: Samuel Castro Yrrarazábal, Augustin Cereceda Yrrarazabal †, Lucila Castro Yrrarazabal, Daniel Castro Yrrarazabal, Mario Castro Yrrarazabal, Ismael Castro Yrrarazabal, Lourdes Castro Pérez and Ricardina Pérez.

Works (selection)

Song collections

  • Willka Taki I .: Taytanchisman Takikuna. Canciones a nuestro señor . Unión Latina, 2008, ISBN 978-603454001-9 .
  • Willka Taki II, Mamanchisman Takikuna . Unión Latina, Paris / Lima 2008.

Sound carrier

  • Noche Buena Imperial . Iempsa, Lima 1947.
  • Navidad en Cusco . Arion, Paris 1998.

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personal data
SURNAME Castro Pinto, Ricardo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Peruvian musician, composer, actor, dancer and song collector
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Cusco , Peru
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 2011
Place of death Cusco , Peru