On 27, 28 and 29 December, Torremolinos will have its traditional pastoral music contest in the city centre, featuring choirs like La Colina, Santa Cristina, Los Pinares, or San Miguel. So once again this year, music and religion will be united in joy for Christmas -inviting us to join, too.
For three days, then, passers-by and street walkers will hear the sounds of pastoral songs in the streets, starting at 7:00 p.m. Sung by magnificent voices, the repertoire promises to be very moving.
These days, Torremolinos is also flooded with the brightness and colour of around 120,000 light bulbs: illuminated arches, lamps, signs and garlands have turned the town into a magical place, the perfect atmosphere to sing or listen to pastoral music.
The town's Christmas programme included other activities as well: the Gouliani Duo's concert at the Pablo Ruiz Picasso Cultural Centre; 'Flamenco Christmas', a show by Toma Castaña (a popular/ folk music band); and the Christmas concert by the town's music school, to name but a few.
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Music event: 'Pastoral Music Takes to the Streets'
Dates: 27-29 December 2006
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Place: City centre
Town: TORREMOLINOS (Málaga)
For further information, please contact the Town Hall.
Telephone: 95 237 94 00
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Time for magic at the Ciudad de Marbella Theatre: on 20 December, the Ukraine Children's Ballet are presenting their version of 'Cinderella', the fairy tale written by the French writer Charles Perrault in 1697 and made into a classic animation film by Walt Disney.
The story is very well-known, of course: a beautiful maiden despised by her horrible stepmother and two step-sisters, who give her the cruel nickname 'Cinderella', is forced into a life of domestic servitude (she has to tend the fireplace, hence the nickname). The girl accepts the help of an attendant spirit, the Fairy Godmother, who changes her appearance so that she can attend a royal ball and attract the attention of the Handsome Prince. The spell vanishes at midnight, however, so she has to run away, leaving a crystal shoe behind her.
So far, so good. At this point, the audience is presented with many surprises and a lot of masterful dance performed by the dancers of the Ukraine Children's Ballet, created by Natalia Rzhevskaya in 1979 after the Kharkov Ballet School, which features some of the best ballet dancers in St Petersburg, Moscow and Kiev.
The company's repertoire includes versions of many popular ballets: 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs', 'Chipollino', 'Nutcracker', 'Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves', 'Ole-Lukoye and Other Tales', 'Arms, Legs and Shoes', and other programmes including over thirty classic and modern dances.
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On 27 November, the first stage of the new train station in Málaga was inaugurated. The station, which will be reached by high-speed trains next year, will hold eight times as many passengers as the old one, up to 24 millions a year. The María Zambrano Vialia Station will be the stage of a transport revolution, taking Málaga one step further on its way to become one of the major cities in Southern Europe.
Following the Ministry of Development’s guidelines laid down in the Strategic Infrastructure and Transport Plan (PEIT), the station was designed as a model of intermodality, boosting public transport to improve communications while protecting the environment.
Vialia Málaga will be the largest intermodal and commercial transport centre ever built in Spain. To the rail services already in operation –commuter, regional and long-distance trains–, it will add high-speed rail, bringing Málaga much closer to the rest of Spain and Europe.
The Vialia Project will give Málaga City a significant economic boost, since the station will feature a big shopping and leisure centre (with 102 retail shops), an underground car park (for 1,300 vehicles), a Lux Cinemas complex (including 13 cinema theatres), a 3,000 m2 professional bowling alley, and several restaurants. The complex will also have a four-star hotel run by Barceló, endowed with 222 guestrooms in 7 floors. In addition, Vialia Málaga will have a social impact, since it is expected to create 420 direct and 500 indirect jobs.
The new facilities’ total surface is 51,377 m2, that is, five times as large as the old station (9,720 m2), incorporating the Málaga commuter train station as well. As for rail capacity, it will have 8 platforms instead of 5, thus increasing by 60% the number of trains operating simultaneously.
Vialia’s works have meant an investment of 134.7 million euros in a design enhancing HST-commuter train intermodality and connecting the station with the airport, local and intercity bus lines, taxi ranks and other vehicles. Besides, in the future, the facilities will also be linked to two underground lines.
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