A Bolero, a Promotional Song and an Unexpected Consecration: the Story of “A City to Live”, the Theme Emblem of the City

“Color of sun, salt flavor, perfume of sea, I discover a city”, are the first verses of “A city to live”, the song that Mariel Dupetit popularized in 1988 and that quickly settled as “Mar del Plata’s anthem.” But the truth is that the theme, which still resonates in the memory of thousands of people and that this Saturday was reversed by the Municipal Symphony Band, was written in 1985. As Mariel Dupetit recalls in dialogue with 0223, the theme …