Margot Loyola
Margot Loyola Palacios (September 15, 1918 – August 3, 2015) was a musician, folk singer and researcher of the folklore of Chile and Latin America in general.
Loyola was active as a musician and musical ethnographer/anthropologist for many decades. She published a large body of work dealing with musical styles, folk music and customs of all Chilean regions as well as other South American countries. She also taught music.[1]
Early career
Loyola was born in Linares, Chile in 1918. She studied piano with Rosita Renard and Elisa Gayán at the National Conservatory of Music of Chile, and studied song with Blanca Hauser. In 1952 she immersed herself in researching the typical Peruvian dances and musical forms, the marinera and the resbalosa. This allowed her to study the origins of these dances and to characterize the simililarities between the Peruvian and Chilean ones (resfalosa and cueca). Subsequently, she worked with Porfirio Vásquez, the patriarch of black music in Peru, and then went on to study the indigenous culture of Peru with José Maria Arguedas.
Later, Loyola studied Argentine and Uruguayan traditional and folk music, with Carlos Vega and Lauro Ayestarán, respectively. In 1952, she began her celebrated research on the ceremonial dances of the Chilean north, with Rogelia Perez and other musicians and groups. Loyola researched the folklore and traditional musical styles of all the regions of Chile as well as Easter Island (a Chilean province, located in the south Pacific Ocean). She compiled and published a great deal of valuable material obtained from her scholarly research and was regarded as an artist and researcher of great authority. Among the art expressions she researched, some were virtually rescued from oblivion and extinction by her work.
Legacy and recognition
Loyola created Chile's first traditional music and dance group, The Conjunto de Alumnos de Margot Loyola (Student Group of Margot Loyola),[2] through which she effectively became an unofficial ambassadress of the Chilean culture.
In 1972, Loyola became a professor of the University of Chile, and in 1998 she was made a Professor emeritus of the Catholic University of Valparaíso.[3] She was awarded the coveted Chilean National Prize for Musical Arts in 1994[4] and the "Premio a lo Chileno" in 2001.[1] She died on August 3, 2015, at the age of 96 in Santiago de Chile.[1]
Works
Loyola's activities resulted in several books, videos, LPs, cassettes and CDs.
Bibliography
- "Bailes de tierra" (Earth dances), (1980)
- "El Cachimbo", (1994)
Videography
- "Danzas tradicionales de Chile" (Traditional dances of Chile), (1994)
- "La Zamacueca" (1999)
- "Los del Estribo: Cantos y Danzas Populares de Chile", (2001)
Discography
Notes
- ^ a b c "A los 96 años muere la destacada folclorista Margot Loyola". 24horas.cl.
- ^ Schechter, John Mendell (1999). Music in Latin American culture: regional traditions. Schirmer Books. ISBN 978-0-02-864750-0.
- ^ "Abate Molina medal conferred to composer Margot Loyola – Universidad de Talca". utalca.cl. Archived from the original on December 13, 2017. Retrieved August 4, 2015.
- ^ "La huella imborrable de Margot Loyola en la historia de la música chilena" [The Indelible Mark of Margot Loyola on the History of Chilean Music]. El Mercurio (in Spanish). Spanish. August 4, 2015. Retrieved December 12, 2017.
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- 1987 José Goles
- 1988 Luis Aguirre Pinto
- 1989 Francisco Flores del Campo
- 1990 Vicente Bianchi
- 1991 Donato Román y Ester Soré
- 1992 Valentín Trujillo
- 1993 Margot Loyola
- 1994 Gabriela Pizarro
- 1995 Antonio Prieto
- 1996 Dúo Rey-Silva
- 1997 Los Jaivas
- 1998 Hernán "Nano" Núñez
- 1999 Sonia y Myriam
- 2000 Fernando Rosas
- 2001 Luis Advis
- 2002 Los Ángeles Negros
- 2003 Isabel y Ángel Parra
- 2004 Patricio Manns
- 2005 Lucho Gatica
- 2006 Buddy Richard
- 2007 Silvia Infantas
- 2008 Los Huasos Quincheros
- 2009 Palmenia Pizarro
- 2010 Tito Fernández
- 2011 Cecilia Pantoja
- 2012 Calatambo Albarracín
- 2013 Fernando García
- 2014 Roberto Lecaros
- 2015 Gastón Guzmán
- 2016 Willy Bascuñán
- 2017 Quilapayún
- 2018 Jorge González
- 2019 Carmen Barros
- 2020 Eduardo Gatti
- 2021 José Alfredo Fuentes
- 2022 Ginette Acevedo and Julio Zegers
- 2023 Myriam Hernández and La Sonora de Tommy Rey