SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, March 17. (EUROPE PRESS) –
A dozen Canarian creators who celebrate their 50th anniversary as members of the General Society of Authors and Publishers (SGAE) will receive the ‘key to the House of Authors’ at an event to be held next Monday, March 21, at 12:30 p.m. , in the La Granja Space in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
The event will be attended, among others, by the founder and director of Los Sabandeños, Elfidio Alonso; the Canarian poet, sculptor and lyricist Fernando García-Ramos; the former director of the Municipal Band of Santa Cruz and senior music teacher at the Agustín Ramos Ramos Conservatory; light music composer and lyricist Joaquín Felipe Sánchez Cots; the author and lyricist María del Pilar Zorrilla López; Armando Alfonso López, director of the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra between 1969 and 1985; the composer of music for orchestra and university professor Néstor José León Ojeda, or the composer of sacred music and professor Emilio Vicente Mateu.
The authors will receive the symbolic key from Antonio Onetti, president of the General Society of Authors and Publishers. During the act, which will also be attended by the president of the Territorial Council of the SGAE in the Canary Islands, the musician Julio Tejera, and the director of the entity in the Islands, Cristina del Río, a brief profile of each of the present authors will be read .
The ‘authors’ key’ is a recognition that is given annually to those members who have been members of the SGAE for five decades. Anonymous or more popular, we are talking about professionals in the cultural sector whose works are usually more recognizable than their faces, and who prove a brilliant talent over the years in the voices and faces of a multitude of artists and performers.
This annual tribute -which is recovered after the stoppage of the coronavirus health crisis- took place last year in Barcelona, Bilbao, Seville, Madrid and Valencia. Now he travels outside the Peninsula and reaches the Canary Islands. In total, more than 150 SGAE members have already received the ‘key to the House of Authors’ for 2021.
