The concerts by Unión Musical and Rondalla de Pols i Pua de La Barqueta close the first part of the Cultural Week of Festes

The concerts offered yesterday by Benidorm Unión Musical and Rondalla de Pols i Pua de l’Associación Cutlural i Recreativa La Barqueta closed the first part of the activities planned in the Cultural Week of the Festes Majors Patronals. La Unión Musical, directed by Oswaldo Olmos, was the last of the three Benidorm bands to perform within the Cultural Week, with a program made up of pasodobles and fragments of zarzuelas.
The concert, which took place in the Julio Iglesias auditorium in Parque de l’Aigüera, was attended by, among others, the mayor, Toni Pérez; the Councilor for Cultural, Jaime Jesús Pérez; members of the Corporation; the Major and Infant Queens of the Festes Majors Patronals, Paula Pérez and Sofía Fuster; the president of the Commission, Batiste Rostoll; and his counterpart from l’Associació de Penyes, Adrián Romero.
The program began with the pasodoble ‘Mi Barcelona’, which was followed by ‘El bateo’, ‘Antología’, ‘La leyenda del beso’, ‘Aquarel • la Alicantina’ and ‘La canción del olvido’. For the interpretation of this last composition, the director requested the collaboration of the Queen and her lady María Catalá, both members of the band of Unión Musical.
Outside of the program, and as a closing to the concert, ‘Fiesta en Benidorm’ was performed, by ‘mestre’ Rafael Doménech, the official anthem of Festes Majors Patronals.
Later, after 8:00 p.m., the parish of Sant Jaume i Santa Anna was the scene of the recital by Rondalla de La Barqueta, one of the last cultural entities in Benidorm to recover its activity after the pandemic, and which was accompanied by the Orchestra Batiste Mut de Campello. The invited group was in charge of the first part of the concert; while Rondalla de La Barqueta took over from him to end up performing the two groups together in the third and last part.
The events of the Cultural Week continue tomorrow, Tuesday, the 9th, in this case with the dramatized reading of ‘Los últimos meses deGustavo Adolfo Bécquer’ by Catarsis Group.