Event: Nuestras Raíces: A LatinX Heritage Month Fundraising Virtual Concert for NEMPAC
Date: Sunday, October 4th, 2020 at 6 p.m.
Location: Virtual (link available with the purchase of a ticket)
Tickets: Get your tickets HERE

The North End Music & Performing Arts Center invites you and your family to join us on Sunday, October 4th. at 6 p.m., for a fundraising virtual concert that features LatinX members of the NEMPAC Faculty performing music from Latin America and celebrating these heritages in song.

Performing in this concert are NEMPAC Faculty Artists Jhon Alvarado, classical guitar; Josaphat Contreras, tenor; Alexandra Dietrich, mezzo-soprano; and Jose Soto, piano with special guest vocalist, Maria Amalia Quesada Chavarria.

Composers to be featured are the works of Daniel Catán, Walter Ferguson, Walter Flores, Agustín Lara, Fernando Obradors, Juan Ríos Ovalle, Manuel Ponce, Jose Soto, and Heitor Villa-Lobos.

The streaming link for viewing this concert will be made available with the purchase of a ticket. Audience members can also choose to dedicate a personalized message in honor of someone from our performers along with a song for a package combination with their ticketed link:

  • Ticket and Dedication of Song with Pianist & Vocalist
  • Ticket and Dedication of Song with Guitarist
  • Ticket and Dedication of Song with Vocalist

The dedication deadline for submission is September 19th. Please see below the song selection you can choose from:

  1. “Un día en la vida” (lyrics by Humberto Vargas / Music Walter Flores) | performed by Jose Soto, Pianist, and guest Vocalist Maria Amalia Quesada Chavarria
  2. “Deja correr el tiempo” (lyrics by Julian Marchena / Music Jose Soto) | performed by Jose Soto, Pianist, and guest Vocalist Maria Amalia Quesada Chavarria 
  3. “Callaloo” (by Walter Ferguson) | performed by Jose Soto, Pianist, and guest Vocalist Maria Amalia Quesada Chavarria   
  4. “Suite Popular Brasileña” (by Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos) | performed by Jhon Alvarado, Classical Guitarist
  5. “Estrellita” (by Mexican composers Manuel Ponce and Daniel Daniel Catán) | performed by Josaphat Contreras, Tenor 
  6. “Comprendo” (by Mexican composers Manuel Ponce and Daniel Daniel Catán) | performed by Josaphat Contreras, Tenor 
  7. “Dalla sua pace” (aria from Mozart’s “Don GIovanni”, translated into Spanish) | performed by Josaphat Contreras, Tenor 
  8. “Granada” (by Mexican composer Agustín Lara) | Alexandra Dietrich, Mezzo-Soprano 
  9. “Amor bendito” (by Puerto Rican composer Juan Ríos Ovalle) | Alexandra Dietrich, Mezzo-Soprano 
  10. “Del cabello más sutil” (by Spanish composer Fernando Obradors) | Alexandra Dietrich, Mezzo-Soprano 

To learn more about the performing artists, how to dedicate a personalized message with a song, and what this concert will benefit, please read here.