Hispanic Heritage Concert
NorthPark Center
Saturday, September 19, 1 PM
featuring New Soung Faculty and Students
&
Special Guests
benefiting
New Song Young Artists
New Song Music Academy is honored to present our Hispanic Heritage Concert, a celebration of music that explores the musical traditions of Latin America and Spain.
This cultural enrichment is essential because it moves students beyond mere notes on a page, showing them how history, geography, and personal experience shape the music they play. By studying and performing works from a wide range of global traditions, students develop a more profound appreciation for music as a living, expressive art form, not just a technical skill.
The concert will go in order of different countries and regions, including Argentina, Spain, Mexico, Guatemala, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Brazil, and the United States.
Program
Arrangements written by Spencer Cook
MEXICO
Mexican Clapping Song
Jesus Gonzalez Rubio
Little Pianists & Strings
Mexican Hat Dance
Jesus Gonzalez Rubio
Little Pianists & Strings
Los Pollitos
Jesus Gonzalez Rubio
Little Pianists & Strings
Nunca es Suficiente
Natalia Laforcade & Daniela Azpiazu
Heidi Schlomer
BRAZIL
Corcovado
Antônio Carlos Jobim
Ansley DuPont
ARGENTINA
Libertango
Astor Piazzola
Gillian & Gretchen Kendall
Por una Cabeza
Carlos Gardel
Halley Li
GUATEMALA
Luna de Xelajú
Paco Perez
Heidi Schlomer, Charlotte Dubois & Eric Lara
SPAIN
Malagueña
Pablo Sarasate
Tucker Brodnax, Logan Li, Andi Wilson & Skyla Soles
Lucha La Fe Por el Triunfo
De la Zarzuela "Luis Fernanda"
Eric Lara & Miriam Morales
TEXAS
Como la flor
Pete Astudillo & A. B. Quintanilla III
Rio Lasa, NSMA Choir & Faculty
CUBA
Como fue
Benny More
Iván Quiñonez
Cuban Medley:
El Manisero
Moisés Simons
Rico Vacilón
Rosendo Ruiz
Guantanamera
José Martí & Joseíto Fernández
Rio Lasa, Eric Lara, Natalia Brito, NSYA & Faculty
Havana
Katherine Trimble, Natalia Brito, Little Pianists and Strings
PUERTO RICO
Oye Cómo Va
Tito Puente
Max Beauchamp, Little Pianists and Strings, Faculty & NSYA
New Song Music Academy Faculty
Juan Duran Chang
Spencer Cook
Alice Yoon
Rafael Valdez
Elmer Tsai
Miriam Morales
Skyla Soles
Dr. Sunny Yu
Eric Lara
Natalia Brito
A suggested donation of $10 is appreciated for today's performance benefiting
New Song Young Artists