(Une de ces chanson qui m'obsède One of these songs that obsesses me)
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"La Historia de un Amor" es un bolero escrito en 1955 por el autor panameño
Carlos Eleta Almarán (Dartañan) a raíz de la muerte de la esposa de su
hermano.
"Historia de un Amor" ( "A Love Story") is a song about a man's old love written by Panamanian songwriter Carlos Eleta Almarán. It was written after the death of his brother's wife. The song tells of a man's suffering after his love has disappeared.
Here are some performances of Historia de un amor. They are all good, done by good singers (and musicians) committed to producing beautiful and affecting musical artistry. The Spanish lyrics here are those used by Guadalupe Pineda and (almost exactly) by Pedro Infante and Libertad Lamarque. Some of the other singers use a slightly different version.
The song was featured several times in the Columbian telenovela "La
Hija del Mariachi", performed by Carolina Ramirez.
In the film "Visage"
by Tsai Ming-liang, Lebanese singer Mohammed Jamal recorded the song in the 1980s in Arabic under the title You and dancing and me (إنت والرقص وأنا).
It has also been covered in Chinese, with the lyrics written by Chen Die-Yi
陳蝶衣 (Oct 17, 1907 in Wujin, Jiangsu to Oct 14, 2007 in Hong Kong). The
song title in Chinese is 我的心裡没有他 (literally: Inside my heart, there is
no him/her).
Historia de un Amor is a
song about a man's old love written by Panamanian songwriter Carlos
Eleta Almaran in 1955. It was written after the death of his brother's
wife. It is also in the soundtrack of a 1956 Mexican movie of the same
name starring Libertad Lamarque.
Carlos Eleta, creador de uno de los grandes boleros de todos los tiempos, “Historia de un amor”, falleció este miércoles a los 94 años en su natal Panamá.
Carlos Eleta Almarán nació en la ciudad de Panamá el 16 de mayo de 1918. Considerado desde pequeño un amante del sentimentalismo, su curiosidad por componer surgió cuando, luego de viajar a España y Estados Unidos para estudiar la preparatoria y la universidad, regresó a su país para hacerse cargo de los negocios de su padre y se unió con su viejo amigo de la infancia Arturo Chino Hassán, otro gran artista panameño. A partir de entonces el quehacer artístico de ambos estuvo estrechamente vinculado y los llevó a contender en el reconocimiento del público.
Con el tema “Historia de un amor” Eleta se coronó internacionalmente como compositor. La canción fue inspirada en la muerte de la esposa de su hermano Fernando, en 1955, y traducida al inglés, francés, ruso y chino y ejecutada en todo tipo de instrumento. Almarán recibió la visita del cantante y actor argentino Leo Marini, llamado el bolerista de América, a quien ofreció dos de sus temas para que los grabara un su siguiente producción. Marini no dudó al leer “Historia de un Amor”, la que convirtió en un éxito.
In the past few years, a number of predictions have declared the end of the beard. “Sorry guys, beards are over,” said the website
Mashable. “Beards Aren’t Cool Anymore,” said Vice.
But beards are still here - at the Oscars, parading down catwalks and on
regular guys.
Could it be that beards are more than a fashion statement?
Science suggests that facial hair - from scruffy day-old stubble to full Grizzly Adams - is imbued with social messages, and can play a significant role in a man’s love life.
Last year, researchers from the University of Queensland in Australia decided to explore male facial hair to determine what role, if any, beards play in sexual attractiveness, masculinity and short- and long-term relationships.
The team gathered data from 8,520 women, who were divided among three groups. Each group of women was shown pictures of men with varying degrees of facial hair. The images, which had been manipulated by the research team to show the same men more or less bearded, showed the men with clean shaven faces, light stubble (five days of growth) heavy
stubble (10 days of growth) and a thick beard representing about one month of growth.
Next, each group of women was asked to mull a different question about the man’s sex appeal.
The first group rated the men’s beardless-to-bearded faces for overall sexual attractiveness.
The second group also rated the photos, but this time they were asked to
score the pictures based on short-term attractiveness: Which of the men seemed most desirable for a fling or a one-night stand?
The third group rated the men in the photos as long-term prospects: Which
of the men had a face that suggested he might be a good candidate for marriage and commitment?
The answers, which were published in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology, varied depending on what the woman was looking for. Overall, the women
said the sexiest men were those sporting heavy stubble, followed by short stubble. Men with full beards and clean-shaven men were rated the lowest on the overall sexiness scale.
What kind of man is most attractive to a woman looking for a short-term
fling or one-night stand?
Men with light stubble won that contest, closely followed by men with heavier stubble, suggesting that the scruffy look appeals to women looking for fun, but not commitment.
But when it came to choosing a long-term partner, a guy with whom a woman
could have babies or settle in for the duration, the more facial hair the better. Men with heavy stubble and full beards were the clear
winners on this question, suggesting that men who are ready to commit might do better if they shave less often.
The authors of the study theorize that for women who are looking for a long-term mate, beardedness may be more attractive as it “indicates a male’s ability to compete for resources.”
Barnaby Dixson, a human behavioral ecologist at the University of Queensland and a co-author of the beard length study, has been researching mate preferences for a decade. He explains that both sexes judge men with beards as older and more masculine, and describe them as generous, sincere, industrious and self-confident.
But Dr. Dixson, who sports a full beard, says research has also found that
facial hair is associated with some antisocial traits, such as aggression and social dominance. While these traits might not be pleasant if you’re looking for a fun fling, they might be alluring if you want an alpha male to support your family and fend off predators.
It’s not just women who prefer bearded alpha males - men also prefer men with facial hair.
Dr.
Dixson and colleagues asked 1,577 men and women from Brazil and the Czech Republic about facial hair. Compared to heterosexual women, gay
men had stronger preferences for men with more facial hair.
“Homosexual men preferred hairier stimuli than heterosexual women, supporting past findings that homosexual men have strong preferences for masculine traits,” the authors reported.
Brazilians preferred bigger beards than Czechs.
Homosexual men preferred men with beards similar to their own.
Czech women preferred men with beards that were similar to the beards their fathers had during their childhood.
The study, published in March in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior, also found that men often preferred thicker facial hair than their real
partners actually had. The authors noted that the fact that people don’t end up with their “ideal” - at least in terms of his beard — may
be because their ideal is not readily available, so they “compromise.”
Not every man can grow a beard naturally. More men with hairless faces have begun seeking hair transplants, according to the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery.
In 2014, the latest year for which data are available, 13,956 men around the world had hair transplants to enhance their beards, up from 4,707 in 2012. More than 3,100 of the men were in the United States. Beard transplants are most popular in Asian countries, where nearly 4,200 men had the treatment in 2014.
Whether men choose to grow beards may also depend on the context in which they live.
A 2016 study
found that beards are more common in crowded cities where average incomes are lower. In this environment, where money is scarce and there
is more competition for mates, men may feel they need to ramp up their masculinity. On the flip side, “when competition in the social
environment is reduced and the need to signal dominance is of less importance, men may dial down their masculinity through shaving or grooming their beards,” Dr. Dixson wrote in an email. Which may be why beards seem to be less common in the less populated suburbs.
Another factor that influences whether men decide to grow some stubble is the frequency of beardedness around them. “When beardedness becomes too common, it is less attractive than when it is rare,” Dr. Dixson wrote. “This may explain why fashions and trends in beardedness fluctuate over time.”
Christopher Oldstone-Moore, author of the 2015 book “Of Beards and Men: The Revealing History of Facial Hair,” maintains that history more than biology establishes meanings for facial hair. “I wonder if the positive effects of beards are a matter of the current cultural preference for beards, and perhaps the idea that bearded men are more mature, confident and reliable is because that is what we are tending to associate with beards these days,” Dr. Oldstone-Moore, a senior lecturer at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, wrote in an email.
“Whenever masculinity is redefined facial hairstyles change to suit.”
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Music: Jean Paul Martini (1746-1816)
Lyrics: Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (1755-1794)
