Largo ma con fuoco: De cómo Concepción se construyó una orquesta

Abstract

The shaping of a local orchestra that bears the representativeness of his city does not merely depend of its artistical worth. Such as any group that requests a official legitimity, its success is atacched on a wider range of elements, even of a political kind. 

This work is an hisoriographical revision of the process that concludes with the institution of a representative orchestra in the city of Concepción, Chile, during the decades of 1940 and 1950. This process involved the race of diverses orchestras to get the acceptation of the public, at the same tima that they try to insert themselves into an official circuit that bucked up its activity. The problem is showed lighted by another historical causes, specially ideological, that allow to explain both the reasons of the process itself, such as its results, looking through them for an interpretation able to be casted until our present reality.