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COLOMBIAN SONG: NIŇO TORBELLINO

Recording from Ibagué, Tolima, Colombia.

The orchestra features Primary School children playing piano, strings, percussion and recorders.

View the small insert photos to view the groups of very young singers and instrumentalists.

Scenes from Colombia also include a Primary school audience, a coffee plantation,

fruit sellers and views of Bogota Old Town.

Many thanks to the composer Jorge Humberto Jiménez B. for permission to include his song.

The recording was made August 2005 as part of a musical exchange project organised by Dorset Music Service, the British Council and the Conservatorium of Music of Tolima (Conservatorio del Tolima), Ibagué.

Tiple and Requinto are types of guitar found in Colombia.