On Saturday night, TV3 broadcast the Sung habaneras From Calella de Palafrugell. Míriam Riau was the journalist in charge of presenting the event, which this year had an added dose of expectation: a controversial ending due to the City Council's decision not to sing. My grandfather as a final farewell performance, as was traditional. The reason has to do with the chain. The documentary Walls of silence linked its author, José Luis Ortega Montasterio, to a sexual exploitation network. The composer's family has denied this, and the facts are pending trial, but the sordid nature of the case has led to extreme caution. My grandfather It was not prohibited in any case, but was removed from the enclosure. Inland Sailor, The Beautiful Lola and The seagull was the musical triplet chosen to close the sing-along.
The audience already noticed from the beginning a certain caution in addressing the controversy informatively, without offering the context of the changes in the program and the origin of the controversy. But when the sing-along reached its final stretch, the protests of the public forced us to face the situation: "They are the cries of the people showing their disagreement with this change of decision of the final sing-along, because it does not end with My grandfather "How it usually ended," explained Miriam Riau. "If there's no breaking news, it shouldn't be like this in the first place. It should be these three songs." And, despite the audience's commotion, the presenter signed off: "We'll leave it here. Thank you very much," she announced as if she were in a hurry to finish. The production did show the whistling and the handkerchief, and how the audience spontaneously sang along. My grandfather. One outraged spectator was even heard exclaiming in a loud voice: "My grandfather, balls!" A resounding claim with a nostrat argument. One of the singers, from the stage, promised to sing the habanera by Ortega Monasterio after completing the agreed program. When it was the singer's turn The beautiful Lola, TV3 announced it with a caption that included a spelling mistake: Old Lola, with comes low. They converted Lola, the one who "It drives sailors crazy and even the pilot loses his compass.", in an irresistible grandmother waving her handkerchief from the beach. Unheard of after thirty years of broadcasting habaneras.
After The seagullRiau reappeared: "Now, they say, they are beginning to sing My grandfatherAnd so it was. But not a peep about the documentary or the origin of the controversy. A lack of journalistic clarity that TV3 shouldn't fall into. Because if the network back then championed the documentary's thesis, it can't seem to waver now. The production was clearer and allowed for a detail to be observed. On stage, three of them stood discreetly in the background, holding each other's shoulders, and it didn't seem like they were singing.
