Venezuelan Fiesta is the name of a 33-RPM LP album by Venezuelan composer/arranger/conductor Aldemaro Romero

Aldemaro Romero

Aldemaro Romero was a Venezuelan pianist, composer, arranger and orchestral conductor. He was born in Valencia, Carabobo State.-Biography:...

, released in 1956 (see 1956 in music

1956 in music

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), under contract with RCA

RCA

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 Victor.

This was the second Romero's album with RCA Victor, featuring popular Venezuelan pieces, and the release of the joropo Venezuelan Fiesta, continuing with the modernization of Venezuelan folk music, upgrading it from folk instrumentations to full modern orchestral versions, and making it palatable to international audiences.

Album information

From the back cover of the album:

• Las Bellas Noches de Maiquetía — Valse Venezolano (The Beautiful Nights of Maiquetía). "This composition by Pedro Arcila Ponte was inspired by the beauty of the nights of Maiquetía, a seaport near La Guaira."
• Brisas del Zulia — Valse (Breezes of Zulia). "This is a musical tribute to Lake Maracaibo, written by Amable Espina."
• Geranio — Valse (Geranium). "Written by one of Venezuela's foremost composers, Pedro Elías Gutiérrez, who also wrote the famous joropo Alma Llanera
  Alma Llanera
  Alma Llanera is a popular Joropo song composed by Pedro Elías Gutiérrez and with lyrics of Rafael Bolívar Coronado. It was part of a zarzuela whose premiere was on September 19, 1914 at the Teatro Municipal de Caracas....
  
  . The Vienna style is predominant."
• Amalia — Valse-Joropo. "A very famous valse-joropo written by Francisco de Paula Aguirre and Leoncio Martínez "Leo"."
• El Cari-Cari — Joropo. "One of the standard favorites of the country."
• El Cumaco de San Juan — Merengue. "A typical merengue from Caracas."
• El Polo Coriano — Polo. "An outstanding example of this type of music."

Track listing

Track	Song Title	Composer	Genre
1.	Las Bellas Noches de Maiquetía	Pedro Arcila Ponte	Venezuelan waltz Venezuelan waltz - History :Between the hall dances that arrived to Venezuela during the 19th century, waltz has been the one of greater root and dispersion. Waltz consists of a musical expression derived from an Austrian popular dance, the ländler...
2.	Brisas del Zulia	Amable Espina	Venezuelan waltz Venezuelan waltz - History :Between the hall dances that arrived to Venezuela during the 19th century, waltz has been the one of greater root and dispersion. Waltz consists of a musical expression derived from an Austrian popular dance, the ländler...
3.	Geranio	Pedro Elías Gutiérrez Pedro Elías Gutiérrez Pedro Elías Gutiérrez was a Venezuelan musician who is mainly remembered by the joropo song Alma Llanera, whose music he composed.-Life and valoration:...	Venezuelan waltz Venezuelan waltz - History :Between the hall dances that arrived to Venezuela during the 19th century, waltz has been the one of greater root and dispersion. Waltz consists of a musical expression derived from an Austrian popular dance, the ländler...
4.	Marisela	S. Díaz Peña	Joropo Joropo The Joropo is a musical style resembling the waltz, and an accompanying dance, having African and European influences originated in Venezuela and performed in Colombia and Venezuela. It's a fundamental genre belonging to its typical music or música criolla...
5.	Quejas del alma	Delgado Briceño	Venezuelan waltz Venezuelan waltz - History :Between the hall dances that arrived to Venezuela during the 19th century, waltz has been the one of greater root and dispersion. Waltz consists of a musical expression derived from an Austrian popular dance, the ländler...
6.	Juliana	Lionel Belasco Lionel Belasco Lionel Belasco was a prominent pianist, composer and bandleader, best known for his calypso recordings. According to various sources, he was born either in Barbados or in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago; he grew up in Trinidad, the son of an Afro-Caribbean mother and a Sephardic Jewish father...	Venezuelan waltz Venezuelan waltz - History :Between the hall dances that arrived to Venezuela during the 19th century, waltz has been the one of greater root and dispersion. Waltz consists of a musical expression derived from an Austrian popular dance, the ländler...
7.	Venezuelan Fiesta	Aldemaro Romero Aldemaro Romero Aldemaro Romero was a Venezuelan pianist, composer, arranger and orchestral conductor. He was born in Valencia, Carabobo State.-Biography:...	Joropo Joropo The Joropo is a musical style resembling the waltz, and an accompanying dance, having African and European influences originated in Venezuela and performed in Colombia and Venezuela. It's a fundamental genre belonging to its typical music or música criolla...
8.	Amalia	Francisco de Paula Aguirre Francisco de Paula Aguirre Francisco de Paula Aguirre was a Venezuelan composer.Aguirre was born in Caracas, dedicates part of his life at the composition of waltzes, his works became popular pieces of the Venezuelan culture, also was a precursory of the player piano rolls manufacture in the country.Between his works,... / Leoncio Martínez	Waltz Venezuelan waltz - History :Between the hall dances that arrived to Venezuela during the 19th century, waltz has been the one of greater root and dispersion. Waltz consists of a musical expression derived from an Austrian popular dance, the ländler... -joropo Joropo The Joropo is a musical style resembling the waltz, and an accompanying dance, having African and European influences originated in Venezuela and performed in Colombia and Venezuela. It's a fundamental genre belonging to its typical music or música criolla...
9.	El Cari-Cari	Rafael Romero	Joropo Joropo The Joropo is a musical style resembling the waltz, and an accompanying dance, having African and European influences originated in Venezuela and performed in Colombia and Venezuela. It's a fundamental genre belonging to its typical music or música criolla...
10.	Tu Partida	Augusto Brandt Augusto Brandt Augusto Brandt was a Venezuelan composer and violinist.-Early life:The son of German immigrants, and younger brother of writer Carlos Brandt, he had piano lessons with Ana Jhan Wittestone as a child, and composed his first pieces at the age of six. From 1903, he studied violin in Caracas...	Love song Love song A love song is about falling in love and the feelings it brings. Anthologies of love songs often contain a mixture of both of these types of song. A bawdy song is both humorous and saucy, emphasizing the physical pleasure of love rather than the emotional joy...
11.	El Cumaco de San Juan	Francisco Pacheco	Venezuelan merengue Venezuelan merengue The word merengue designates a musical form extended through all the Caribbean. The first occurrences of merengue in print in Venezuela are from scores of “dance merengue” of the second-half of the 19th century . As a dance craze, merengue acquired popularity in Caracas during the 1920s. It is...
12.	El Polo Coriano	Arranger: Aldemaro Romero Aldemaro Romero Aldemaro Romero was a Venezuelan pianist, composer, arranger and orchestral conductor. He was born in Valencia, Carabobo State.-Biography:...	Polo Polo (music) Polo designates two forms of Venezuelan folk music. One that originates from Margarita Island and another one that is played in Coro, in the state of Falcón. In main lines, this genre is interpreted using cuatro, maracas, mandolin, guitar and voice...