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The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women is commemorated annually on November 25 to denounce the violence that is exercised against women throughout the world and to demand policies in all countries for its eradication. The call was initiated by the Latin American feminist movement in 1981, in commemoration of the date on which the three Mirabal sisters were murdered in 1960 in the Dominican Republic . In 1999, the day of vindication was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly , understanding violence against women as "any act of violence based on belonging to the female sex that has or may have as a result physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering for women."

Today we present the “Song without fear” by the Mexican singer Vivir Quintana in a Basque version by the female group from Portugalete, Sastrakako Emakumeak .

Eric Coates (1886 – 1957) was an English composer and, early in his career, a noted violist; he was born into a musical family but, despite his wishes and obvious talent, his parents only reluctantly allowed him to pursue a musical career. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music under Frederick Corder (composition) and Lionel Tertis (viola), and played in string quartets and theatre bands, before joining symphony orchestras conducted by Thomas Beecham and Henry Wood . Coates 's prolific output includes the London Suite (1932), of which the well-known " Knightsbridge March " is the final section; the waltz " By the Sleepy Lagoon " (1930); and " The March of the Dambreakers " (1954). His output consists almost entirely of orchestral music and songs.

Founded in 1979, the Taipei Wind Orchestra & Symphonic Band (TSB) has been actively performing from standard to contemporary wind ensemble classical repertoire for nearly 35 years nationwide under the baton of Yui-Biau Hou . The TSB group, consisting of the Wind Orchestra, Brass Ensemble, Symphonic Band, Jazz Orchestra , and Youth Concert Band groups, has a large percentage of selected students and professional musicians throughout the Taipei metropolitan area; the group has been involved in developing and expanding the repertoire and refining the performance level by collaborating with living composers and world-renowned artists to educate the musicians and audiences of the future.

Today we offer the first movement, Happy Days (Elisabeth Tudor ), from the suite The Three Elizabeths by Eric Coates in a performance by the Taipei Symphony Band conducted by maestro Scott Hartman

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was one of the giants of Western music along with Bach and Mozart . Born in Bonn , his father, of Flemish origin, tried to make him a second Mozart , but this was a notable failure. Nevertheless, from the age of nine, the organist Christian Gottlob Neefe captivated him with the study of Bach , whom he would always keep in mind. In 1787 he moved to Vienna with the intention of receiving lessons from Mozart , but the death of his mother brought him back to Bonn a few days later. And so, after five years, he returned to Vienna, where he came into contact with Haydn and Salieri, making himself known as a composer and pianist with notable public recognition. However, his profession as a pianist could not be fulfilled due to the deafness that attacked him the following year, leaving him totally incapacitated in this faculty.

Beethoven 's musical legacy includes 32 piano sonatas, numerous works for chamber ensembles, piano and violin concertos, incidental music, sacred music and, above all, nine symphonies that occupy the zenith of the History of Music . This legacy, to better understand it, can be divided into three stages of continuous renewal and improvement: A) Until 1802 . Classicism . His first ten piano sonatas, first six string quartets, the Septimius, the first two symphonies or the first two piano concertos belong to it. B) 1803-1814 . Romanticism . At the height of his artistic maturity and with absolute control of formal structure and lyricism, he composed the symphonies from 3rd to 8th, his opera Fidelio, his 3rd, 4th and 5th piano concertos, the violin concerto, the triple concerto, the piano sonatas “Moonlight”, “Appasionata” , the Kreutzer Violin Sonata , … C) 1815 until his death . Innovation of a more intense language with bolder harmonic and structural treatments: five last piano sonatas and five last string quartets, Symphony No. 9 with the addition of soloists and choir, Misa Solemnis …

The catalogue of Beethoven's works . There are 138 musical works composed by Beethoven , arranged by numbers known as opus (Latin for "work") or its abbreviation op. , assigned by the composer's publishers during his lifetime. In addition, there are another 205 works that do not have opus numbers and that were published after the composer's death. These works were assigned WoO numbers (Werke ohne Opuszahl, "works without opus numbers"). This catalogue was first compiled by Georg Kinsky and Hans Halm (Das Werk Beethovens) in 1955.

Ludwig van Beethoven 's Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57, known as the Appassionata , was composed in Döbling , a town near Vienna , in 1804. The Appassionata was thus nicknamed by its publisher, which outraged Beethoven , who believed all his works were written to be played passionately, not just this one. The Appassionata consists of three movements: I (0´00´´) ALLEGRO ASSAI .-. II (10´38´´) ANDANTE CON MOTO-attacca .-. III (16´41´´) ALLEGRO, MA NON TROPPO-PRESTO. Today we are treated to the performance by Russian pianist Anastasia Huppmann (1988), who has won important first prizes in numerous Russian and European competitions and has collaborated with famous orchestras in Europe and Asia .

Mieczysław Weinberg (1919 – 1996) was a Soviet composer of Polish-Jewish origin who lost most of his family in the Holocaust . From 1939, he lived in the Soviet Union and then Russia . Weinberg was musically inclined early (his father was a violinist and director of a Yiddish theatre), and was playing the piano as early as the age of ten. He entered the Warsaw Conservatory early on, where he remained from the age of twelve until graduating in 1939. But in the summer of 1939, the Nazis invaded Poland , and he was forced to take refuge in the Soviet Union to survive: his parents and sister were murdered in the Trawnik i concentration camp . Weinberg lived the rest of his life in Moscow , dedicated to his work as a composer and pianist.

His catalogue of compositions consists of 153 works; among them 22 symphonies, 17 string quartets, eight violin sonatas, a concerto for violin and orchestra, as well as 40 film and animation scores, 4 operas and 3 operettas; in his music, he displays a rationalist and neoclassical clarity and proportion. His works are classified by their Opus number (from the Latin opus 'work'; op. abbreviation) which is a term used in music to catalogue the works of most composers since the 17th century .

Today we present his Trumpet Concerto in B flat Major, Op. 94 articulated in three movements: I (0´5´´) ETUDES: ALLEGRO MOLTO .-. II (7´53´´) EPISODES: ANDANTE - attacca: III (16´38´´) FANFARES with Timofei Dokschitzer as soloist accompanied by the Moscow Philharmonic conducted by the Lithuanian maestro Algis Zhuraitis.

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. On November 25, 1960, the Mirabal sisters were brutally murdered for being women and activists. Their only crime was having fought for their rights against the Dominican dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo (1930-1961). In 1993, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 48/104 for the Elimination of Violence against Women , which defines this type of violence as "any act of violence based on gender that results or is likely to result in physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or private life." Consequently, to support this decision, in 1999 the General Assembly proclaimed November 25 as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women . (UNESCO article)

"Violence against women must end. On this International Day for the Elimination of this scourge, UNESCO is once again calling for unity and action, recalling that each person has a role to play in ensuring that gender-based violence is no longer tolerated. By fighting for women's rights, we also protect human rights as a whole." (Audrey Azoulay Director-General of UNESCO)

Adolphe Adam (1803-1856) was a French composer born in Paris , son of the renowned pianist and professor at the Paris Conservatory , Lois Adam , with whom he began his musical studies. At the age of 18 he entered the Paris Conservatory and at 20 he was composing songs for the Parisian vaudevilles . His first successes came in his adult life with the ballet Giselle , which we offer today, and the opera Si j'étais roi . In total he wrote 40 operas, 14 ballets and various cantatas, hymns, masses, choruses, piano pieces, pantomimes, military marches and plays; of all these compositions it is worth highlighting, in addition to those already mentioned, the ballet Le Corsaire , and the carol Cantique de Noël , world-famous as O Holy Night . From 1849 until his death in 1856 he was professor of composition at the Paris Conservatory .

Giselle is a ballet in two acts with music by Adolphe Adam , choreography by Jules Perrot and Jean Coralli and libretto by Théophile Gautier and Jules-Henri Vernoy, based on the play De l'Allemagne (1835) by Heinrich Heine . Giselle is a peasant girl of great beauty and extreme innocence; deceived and betrayed, her heart breaks, falling into a despair that will drag her towards madness and death. Giselle is one of the masterpieces of ballet blanc , a ballet scene in which all the members of the corps de ballet appear dressed in white. Since the times of Romantic ballet, these scenes have been populated by ghosts, dryads, sylphs, fairies or similar creatures.

Our main protagonists today are two world figures in the art of dance: Svetlana Zakharova and Sergei Polonin

The Tlacotalpan Festival is a festival held in the town of Veracruz , Mexico, in honor of the Virgin of Candelaria . During the last days of January and the first days of February, Tlacotalpan celebrates its patron saint, the Virgin of Candelaria , with a big party; the people of Tlacotalpan go out into the streets to escort the Virgin , who wears a new outfit every year, in a cavalcade of more than 600 riders led by women! Many others wear the beautiful traditional costume of Veracruz during those days, with their tortoiseshell combs and fans, giving the celebration a 100% jarocha atmosphere. This festival is also a musical extravagance, the town is filled with decimeros and jaraneros and the Naval School Band plays constantly to accompany the numerous events. (Extracted from El Universal)

Amalia Hernández (1917-2000) was a Mexican dancer and choreographer, founder in 1952 of the ballet that bears her name and is emblematic of the folk art of this country, based at the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City. Amalia dedicated herself to rescuing traditional Mexican dances that had been lost over time, striving to improve their quality. In 1959, President López Mateos asked this group to become one of Mexico 's natural ambassadors.

The Amalia Hernández Ballet, also known as the Ballet Folklórico de México, has more than 60 of its own choreographies with performances throughout Mexico; it has also made more than 100 international tours visiting a total of 60 countries and more than 300 cities.