It sounds easy: one hundred years. It is best that the teacher Juan Vicente Torrealba still alive, very much alive, lucid. A living heritage of the Venezuelan musical culture.
On February 20 he reached the hundred years of life, and enough to see his legacy to understand how much has contributed to the musical heritage of Venezuela.
Of his songs, "Concert in the plain" is usually the most emblematic of his works. However, there is no issue that Juan Vicente has not sung, especially the plain, love, the woman he loved.
Torrealba music smells of mastranto, has the color of the sun rise over the plain or nostalgic evening with its breathtaking colors.
One of the interesting aspects of Torrealba is the contribution to the harp. The harp Torrealba is as high as it used to be the master in his youth and adulthood: it is considered that it was the first interpreter of this instrument to touch it up, because in Venezuela, in the Venezuelan plains, there is the habit of playing the harp sitting , and sometimes lying as they do Paraguayans and Mexicans. Torrealba stood, and in doing so, raised the figure of the harpist, put it in the foreground, and is something that many of today's harpists owe the teacher.
For all these things and more, long live the master teacher!
