La Casa de la Herencia Cultural Puertorriqueña, Inc.

In collaboration with

Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños at Hunter College

Presents

William Cepeda’s Puerto Rican Music Roots & Beyond

“La Danza en Dos Tiempos”

Traditional and Contemporary Danza Music

 

La Danzante & Bronx Arts Ensemble, Pedro Rivera Toledo, Musical Director

with special guests

Carlos Aponte, tenor & Thelma Ithier Sterling, soprano

and

William Cepeda AfroRican Jazz, featuring Eric Figueroa

 

Saturday, August 9, 2008

8:00pm

Heckscher Theater at El Museo del Barrio

1230 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10029

(104^th Street Entrance, between Fifth & Madison avenues)

 

General Admission $15.00; Seniors/Students $10.00

Tickets & information:  La Casa, 212. 722.2600 or 212.400.8874

 

La Casa de la Herencia Cultural Puertorriqueña invites you to “La Danza en Dos Tiempos” a concert of traditional and contemporary Danza music. This event is part of a series of concerts, workshops and lecture-demonstrations of a monumental project called “Puerto Rican Music Roots and Beyond” organized by internationally renowned artist William Cepeda (composer, trombonist, educator, researcher and producer).

 

Puerto Rican Music Roots and Beyond seeks to preserve, disseminate and promote Puerto Rico’s musical heritage to audiences throughout New York, Puerto Rico and beyond. A vision of William Cepeda, the project is an innovative, wide reaching, multi-faceted endeavor that will span 18 months from September 2007 to March 2009. Puerto Rican Music Roots and Beyond is a unique comprehensive musical documentation of la Bomba, Plena, Danza and Música Jíbara, in traditional form, and the reinterpretation of the tradition in a contemporary musical setting. Danza is Puerto Rico's national dance; the national anthem of Puerto Rico, “La Borinqueña.” is a Danza.

 

 Puerto Rican Music Roots and Beyond will document these four genres (Bomba, Plena, Danza and Música Jíbara) by professionally recording the concerts, workshops and other project activities to be used in the creation of DVDs and CDs for educational and commercial release. These materials will include extensive historical and contextual bilingual essays and curriculum guides. The materials will be disseminated to K-12 schools, non-profit organizations and libraries.

 

The project is a collaboration between el Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños at Hunter College and La Casa de la Herencia Cultural Puertorriqueña, made possible through funding from the New York State Music Fund, established by the New York State Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors and the National Endowment for the Arts. 

 

La Casa de la Herencia Cultural Puertorriqueña, Inc. (The Puerto Rican Cultural Heritage House, Inc.) also known as “La Casa,” is an East Harlem, not for profit, cultural and educational institution founded in 1981 to advance, disseminate and preserve the cultural, historical, literary and artistic heritage of Puerto Ricans in New York City, Puerto Rico and beyond. 

 

For additional information, please contact La Casa at (212) 722 - 2600 or (212) 400 - 8874.