NOCHE DE LUNA ENTRE RUINAS MARIMBA CHAPINLANDIA

This is the famous Guatemalan Walz, Noche de Luna Entre Ruinas (roughly "Full Moon among the Ruins") by Mariano Valverde.  It was written in remembrance of the terrible earthquake of April 18, 1902 in Quetzaltenango, Valverde´s hometown and the so-called "Capital of the Mayans" (although some say it was for the December 1917 earthquakes that rocked Guatemala City and Antigua).

Here it is performed in its traditional method on the Marimba, the beautiful national instrument of Guatemala.  One of the things I love most about Guatemala is listening to the beautiful music of the Marimba, it is uplifting.  There is a traditional Guatemalan walz performed to this piece.