The Sauces de Cartagena Musical Group won first prize last Saturday, February 17th, at the 7th Cieza Regional Band Festival. The bands of the Alcantarilla Friends of Music Association, the Totana Musical Group, and the Cieza Municipal Band also participated in the competition.<\/p>\n
The participating bands performed a non-scoring pasodoble presentation, a freely chosen piece, and the compulsory entry, "The Ghost Ship," by Cartagena-born Jos\u00e9 Alberto Pina. The musician, who participated in the competition, commented that he was very pleased with the success his latest work was enjoying worldwide and the boost it is giving to bands in the region for their growth.<\/p>\n
The panel, composed of professor Jos\u00e9 Miguel Rodilla, Juan Jos\u00e9 Navarro, and Pascual Mar\u00edn Gonz\u00e1lez, awarded 2,000 euros to the winner, 1,500 euros to the runner-up, and 1,000 euros to the third-place finisher, in addition to 500 euros in assistance to each of the bands.<\/p>\n
Jos\u00e9 Alberto Pina himself described the Cartagena band's performance as "sublime." Furthermore, David Mart\u00ednez, Councilor for Culture of the Cartagena City Council, offered his congratulations to the band and stated that he felt "very proud" of the award and of Cartagena's regional representation. The councilor also announced that he hopes this event will be held in Cartagena next year.<\/p>\n
Source: Cartagena City Council.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
La Agrupaci\u00f3n Musical Sauces de Cartagena gan\u00f3 el pasado s\u00e1bado 17 de febrero el primer premio en el VII Festival Regional de Bandas \u2018Ciudad de Cieza\u2019. En el certamen tambi\u00e9n participaron las bandas de la Asociaci\u00f3n Amigos de la M\u00fasica de Alcantarilla, la Agrupaci\u00f3n Musical de Totana, y la Banda Municipal de M\u00fasica de Cieza. […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciezaentumano.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciezaentumano.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciezaentumano.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciezaentumano.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciezaentumano.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3955"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ciezaentumano.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3959,"href":"https:\/\/ciezaentumano.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955\/revisions\/3959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciezaentumano.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciezaentumano.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciezaentumano.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciezaentumano.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}