Title of piece: “Los Dos Titanes”
Date of performance/recording: 2006
Composer/Lyricist: Félix Calderon Chacín
Performer/Instruments: Daisy Guitiérrez y su grupo
Form: Polo Sucrense. Sets of verses, last two lines repeated each verse.
Tempo: moderately quick 6/8
*“on a pilgrimage” refers to Bolivar’s travels to fight the Spanish from what is now Venezuela across the Andes to Bolivia (named after him.)
** Sucre was assassinated soon after independence as he championed peasants and laborers against the landed gentry
*** “captain” here means people in charge of their destiny, and also where Spanish captains first arrived
****Simón Bolívar