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Announcement :: Children : Crime & Police : Latin America : Prisons |
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Special Edition of the Puerto Rican Music Hour |
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by Philip Stinard
Email: pstinard (nospam) hotmail.com (verified) |
29 Nov 2005
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This Friday's (December 2) edition of the Puerto Rican Music Hour will feature the experimental album, El Baquiné de Angelitos Negros (The Wake for the Little Black Angels), by Puerto Rican-American composer Willie Colón. |
The album is based on the poem Píntame Angelitos Negros, by Venezuelan poet Andrés Eloy Blanco. This poem describes the anguish of a black woman who lost her baby, and who begs an artist who has only painted white angels because of tradition to please paint black angels for her ("Although the Virgin is white, paint for me little black angels"). The show will be dedicated to my brother Ángel's and his girlfriend's baby, who died before birth, and will also feature Ángel's poetry and reflections on this tragedy. The program will be a baquiné, a wake, in memory and honor of Angel's baby. Please join us for this special event.
Tune in at 9 PM this Friday, December 2, to WRFU, 104.5 FM, or listen to the live webcast at http://prometheusradio.org:8000/wrfu.m3u |
See also:
http://prometheusradio.org:8000/wrfu.m3u
http://www.ucimc.org/newswire/display_any/101528
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