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.Latin American music was thenrcct in g; of thr 'MTnr“lt; .day Music Club Monday afternoon i-al„..the.Jlahr.v.Ci.rtt!“:CeiTtcr£ Manitowoc. Mrs. Charles Zicnicr was ( chair in an. ,Mrs. Edrie Dick opened the pro- [ gram with a paper on the historical background of Latin American mu- *i“sic. • t,“The oldest surviving music book c in America was published in Mex* r,jco. rity.Jn she said, “andqthe first opera performed in Buen* q os Aires was Rossini’s 'The Barber^of Seville’ in 1825; c“Before European colonization of j, the New World,* the three great \j:i\ddi‘zaLon?ri^it^»tz:A2fec^-a lm ^ca used music and dancing for j rituals and ceremonials; The Eur- x opeafi colonists brought folk music t and popular songs of their mother . countrier. tho ritual music of the-Catholic Church and increasingly, c thc music of the 'mpn: ny arches* i tra, opera house and recital hall,” j she said. |jFolk Songs , j i Mrs. John K Olson sang a group j of »]k sm;gs~111 ustraiing the in*/; ;^ pf these various culturo?,..jon Latin American music, Her j numbers vere -‘Monsieur Banjo.” ] French and negro ;“M a man, 17I*wr •-Me a Husband,” French: “RiquL -Riqui, Riquirran.” Spanish; “The Pretty Widrnr,*' poriugtte-c..Mrs. William L. Wallace told J about musical instruments in LatinAmerica, She described an orchestra- she hoard in San Jose (luring a trip to Costa Rica; “One striking 'difference between our orchestras .anrp Theirs is the bass section,Mrs, Wallace said and added that jthey use. many more do on tunedinstruments in their orchestral ar* . rangementv .. ]4‘The guitar is the favorite in Mrumeni in all Latin American countries”—he aid “and in Argon* 1 tina and Peru, the accordion is very popular.” (Other instruments described by i Mrs. Wallace were the conga, a type of drum, castanets, Marimbas. ; the pipes, the harps and nvaracas which are gourds filled with dried prav or bean- Mrs. Carl Woehl played twopiano selections to illustrate types of Latin American rhythms. They ....were.:., the rhumba, “The Pagan Love Song” by NaeioTferb Brown and the tango, “La Comparsita” by Rodriguez, ^
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Manitowoc Herald Times
Manitowoc, Wisconsin, US
Wed, Oct 20, 1954
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