Guanajuato, Gto., January 23, 2017.- With a splendid concert that caused a standing ovation, began the first season of the Symphonic Orchestra of the University of Guanajuato (OSUG).

Under the baton of the head director, Roberto Beltrán Zavala, OSUG showed off its talent by presenting three plays with high technical demand from both consecrated composers such as Shostakóvich and Beethoven and a current composer F. Javier G. Compeán, from which, there was a world premiere titled "The women of Pénjamo. The march of the hostages."

Beginning the celebrations of the 65th anniversary of OSUG, the composer from Guanajuato wrote such play specially for the orchestra. "The women of Pénjamo. The march of hostages" is a symphonic poem based in a research of the M. Rocío Corona Azanza, --professor at the Department of History of the University of Guanajuato—about the victims of the war of Independence at the city of Pénjamo.

The interpretation of the Compeán's work managed to transmit a series of emotions that came from a warlike and affliction context through the instrumental tonalities and fusions that emitted in the premiere. "With this play, I wanted to visualize these women that were practically spoils of war."

In a time where the role of women in society is claiming with the conviction to solve the injustices and unconformities they have lived for a long time, Compeán's play represents giving birth to a passage of history that was kept hidden.

The data gathered by the historian Rocío Corona described that women were apprehended together with their children, with the only argument of being "relatives of the insurgents". They were forced to joined the infantry walking from Pénjamo to Irapuato and then to the city of Guanajuato, they had to withstand whipping and being ghastly naked in jail.

Several years after this happened, the women today continue with a search for a quality life and an a including society of all human beings. An incentive for the shutout voices to be heard, are this kind of actions that are made through art, in this case, through music and a university institution engaged with equity and common wellbeing.