Pope Francis greeted a world-class violinist at the Vatican. He is 29-year-old Paco Montalvo from Cordoba.<\/p>\n
-'It would be an honor to play a piece I composed for my land of C\u00f3rdoba.' PACO MONTALVO<\/strong> Paco Montalvo has performed in legendary venues like Carnegie Hall in New York. He is best known for his pioneering flamenco violin.<\/p>\n PACO MONTALVO<\/strong> The musician says attending the Pope's General Audience wasn't on his schedule during his short visit to Rome. He even had to borrow a violin for the occasion. But he says playing flamenco violin for Pope Francis is an experience he will never forget.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n CT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" December 19, 2021. Paco Montalvo, from Cordoba, plays part of one of his compositions for the Pope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/1p248o2uw5w","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bviolinistamontalvoeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bviolinistamontalvoint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n-'You can play it. While I walk around, you can play it... if you're not offended.'
\n-'No!'<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
\nViolinist
\n\u201cI had the privilege of offering the Pope a fragment of one of the compositions I have dedicated to my land of C\u00f3rdoba. It's called \u201cCalleja del pa\u00f1uelo.\u201d It's a flamenco rumba, and I think he liked it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\nViolinist
\n\u201cThe violin becomes the protagonist. It's like the singing voice, the leading voice. And it's accompanied by cuadro flamenco, which includes flamenco guitar, claps, dancing, electric bass and percussion. The violin has that capacity to sing, and also that capacity for virtuosity. And you get a magical fusion.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n