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Floril Musicians in Scaffolding: A guitarist in the Chimborazo: The "Cieguito" Pastor

A guitarist in the Chimborazo: "The Cieguito Shepherd

Fidel Pablo Guerrero Gutiérrez
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The guaneño Francisco Pastor, a great guitarist of the past.
(Shepherd Family Photo particular file)

A visual record, which probably dates from the late 30's or early chimboracense musician 40'S-Francisco "El Ciego" Pastor (Guano, ca. 1871-1947 ) has been provided by his grandson Antonio Pastor (1 ) , who in turn turned to the family albums to find this photograph shows the face of this old guitar prodigy.

Among the guitarists who already have their old used to say of "Blind" Pastor as a performer of great qualities, but none had really heard any of his performances and even fewer knew that he had recorded his works. Were comments from the oral tradition.

Now not only have his picture on our part but we contribute to the location of one of their records recorded a yaraví with end Albaz , which has the suggestive title Seven daggers, apparently instrumental piece, played on bass guitar en Radio El Prado de Riobamba, and then pressed hard by Victor Slate Talking Machine in the 30's. AUDIO

set, click play: Seven daggers (yaraví) / Francis Shepherd. Compilation: FPGG

While we plan to republish our work First Fruits of Ecuador guitar within which this would be attached sound recording, given that we could not get the resources for publication and to avoid the long wait, so we now consider the followers of our blog. Include the information about the disk board:

• Seven daggers (yaraví) [78 rpm record recording] / Pancho Pastor: solo instrumental. Victor: 82193B USA. NJ

We have also documented other sound recordings of Pastor, but we have not been recorded: ICD-gui-to pastor (zam-ba) / Fran-cis-co pastor. So-what gui-ta-war by the au-tor. 82192 Vic-tor - [la-do 2], the ring is on the other side of the interpretation of Carlota Jaramillo: Ay, ay, ay, my pa-lo-mi-ta (typical re-ai-co) Ra-Fael Car-ba-jal.


Fragment of a list of disks Victor. 30's.

additional information about this musician give us the musicologist imbabureño Segundo Luis Moreno (1882-1972) who wrote in 1930 that Francis Shepherd:

"... is a native of the neighboring canton cieguito Guano, currently residing in Riobamba, who plays guitar with neatness.
" In press, cleaning and elegance falls short of any English concert. The easiest piece executed by Pastor receives a stream of life and is all emotion and feeling. Francisco Pastor - undoubtedly - is the best that, in music, has been the province of Chimborazo from time immemorial. " (Moreno, Segundo Luis. "Music in Ecuador". In: Ecuador in one hundred years of independence. 1830-1930 / Gonzalo Orellana J., editor, t. II, p. 187-276. Quito, 1930. p. 259-260).

For his part, Dr. Carlos Ortiz Arellano Article The beginnings of broadcasting in Ecuador / Radio El Prado mentions that Shepherd was born in 1871 and died in 1947. It also aims to playing a different tune ( scordatura ) and was one of the major axes of the hearings on Radio El Prado, and it includes a comment from Ms. Maruja Navarrete, who notes that "drew attention to the blind Shepherd who played the melody and accompanying time, which was unusual at that time. "
( http://www.culturaenecuador.org/artes/personajes-de-chimborazo/193-los-inicios-de-la-radiodifusion-en-ecuador-radio-el-prado.html ) Francisco

Shepherd is certainly part of the history of the guitar in Andean Ecuador. This instrument and its practitioners throughout the continent contributed greatly to convey a rich repertoire of creative, now is the legacy of our people. ***

Note:
1. Antonio Pastor (Riobamba, January 1, 1954 -). Composer. Pastor Francisco Nieto guitarist, son of Joseph Shepherd and Ana Novillo. Resides in Quito. Al is currently producing an album with 16 songs to cities and provinces of Ecuador with national rhythms, along with his son Joseph, who is also a musician (arranger).