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mix and video by marc eliow:) enjoy it my friends:) Composed in 1913 by Daniel Alomía Robles, El cóndor pasa is based on the copyright-free 18th-century Peruvian folk song Soy la paloma que el nido perdió ('Am the dove that lost the nest'). Julio Baudouin y Paz added another text to the melody entitled El cóndor pasa, which was first performed in Lima on December 19, 1913 at the Teatro Mazzi.[1] The then 42-year-old composer Robles shaped the song into a zarzuela, a spoken and sung play.[2] This zarzuela consisted of eight parts: introduction (introducción), male choir (coro), sad Inca music from the Andes (yaraví), duet of soprano and baritone (dúo), romance (romanza), royal dance (kashua),[3] folksy March (pasacalle) and intercession (plegaria). The zarzuela is set in a mine in Cerro de Pasco and laments the conflicts between the Indian miners and the European owners (sajones, meaning “Saxons”). In the course of the play, the exploitative Mr. King is murd
