¡Música del Corazón! Media Kit

 2024 Event

¡Música del Corazón!
John Donald Robb, Jr. Memorial Concert
Sunday 24 November 2024
2:00pm box office opens *
2:45pm preconcert roundtable
3:00pm concert
National Hispanic Cultural Center
Albuquerque Journal Theatre
* Although admission is FREE, all audience members must obtain a ticket before entering the theatre. Reserve tickets online: link coming soon.
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2023 poster art by Jim Vogel
Empty seats and tickets not picked up by 2:40pm will be released to people waiting to attend. Please come early to claim your seat.

Here is the National Hispanic Cultural Center's ¡Música del Corazón! listing:

link coming soon

Press Release

Here is the 2023 10th Anniversary Celebration press release. 2024 press release coming soon.
Download Press Release PDF

About

The annual Música del Corazón concert is a showcase of the living legacy of John Donald Robb. He carefully recorded and transcribed more than 3000 Hispano folk songs all over New Mexico, the Southwest, Mexico, and Spain. Like romantic and modernist composers before him, he looked to the songs of everyday folk to inspire and inform his own compositions and scholarship. He also provided a living record to us, the musicians, scholars, and teachers of the future. Over the past decade, we have marveled at the persistence and genius of traditional music as it recalls the past, adapts to the present, and shapes the future. Robb’s extensive field recordings are archived at UNM's Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections.

Featured Performers


Pre-Concert Roundtable


Robb Award Honoree

  • to be announced

Artistic Director

  • lisa nevada {ABQ / NYC} advocate for our earth mother, dance-maker, collaborator, and educator

Guest Curators

  • Javier Marín-López, PhD {Ebeda / Jaén, Spain} Musicologist and Professor, University of Jaén
  • Enrique Lamadrid, PhD {Embudo / ABQ} Historian of Chicano, Mexican American, and Hispano culture, Professor Emeritus, University of New Mexico

¡Música del Corazón! Committee

UNM John Donald Robb Musical Trust

  • lisa nevada ~ Música Committee Chair
  • Javier Marín-López, PhD ~ Guest Curator
  • Enrique Lamadrid, PhD ~ Guest Curator
  • Robert Lucero, Jr. ~ Board Chair
  • Rosalia Pacheco, PhD ~ Board member, Education Specialist
  • Ana Alonso-Minutti, PhD ~ Archives & Underwriting Committee Chair
  • Robert Tillotson, PhD ~ Performance & Education Committee Chair
  • Jim Bonnell ~ Board Secretary
  • Thomas Goodrich ~ Program Specialist

National Hispanic Cultural Center

  • Maxwell Maliga ~ Performing Arts Program Manager
  • Santiago Candelaria ~ Albuquerque Journal Theater Stage Manager
  • Elena Baca ~ Interim Education Program Manager
  • David Rivera ~ Albuquerque Journal Theatre Box Office Manager
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Educational Outreach

Each year ¡Música del Corazón! delivers several 'eduformaces' lasting approximately 30 to 90 minutes. Events feature artists performing in the annual free Sunday November concert at the National Hispanic Cultural Center Albuquerque Journal Theatre. Educational Outreach presentations typically incorporate Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado Spanish cultural history, dance, and music, as well as folk traditions from Mexico. All educational outreach events are free and the public is cordially invited to attend.

2023 Educational Outreach Events

Wednesday 15 November 2023 2:30p
Janeros de UNM
Longfellow Elementary

Thursday 16 November 2023 12p
UNM Mariachi Lobo
Barelas Senior Center

Thursday 16 November 2023 7p
UNM Mariachi Lobo
National Hispanic Cultural Center
Bank of America Theatre
Featuring:
  • Albuquerque High School Mariachi
  • Atrisco Heritage Academy High School Mariachi Herencia
  • Rio Grande High School Mariachi
  • Santa Fe Youth Symphony Mariachi

Friday 17 November 2023 10a
Felix "Gato" Peralta ~ Nuevomexicano
National Hispanic Cultural Center
Bank of America Theatre
Reserve seats: my.nmculture.org/27584/27586 

Friday 17 November 2023 1p
Felix "Gato" Peralta ~ Nuevomexicano
National Hispanic Cultural Center
Bank of America Theatre
Reserve seats: my.nmculture.org/27584/27587 

Commemorative Program


Images

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2022 Baroque Fandangos of New Spain and Historic Fandangos of Nuevo México

Video

2023 10th Anniversary Celebration 60 second video teaser

2023 10th Anniversary Celebration featured artist Laura Rebolloso discusses the history and sounds of the son jarocho musical tradition with Robb Trust Grad Assistant Chris Orphal.


Sponsors

UNM John Donald Robb Musical Trust

National Hispanic Cultural Center


UNM Libraries ~ Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections


UNM College of Fine Arts

Quotes

"The Robb Trust's annual ¡Música del Corazón! celebration plays an important part in our community. It preserves as well as showcases our traditions. It brings the past alive and furthers those historians, musicians, and dancers who are bringing these traditions into the present and future."

~Cynthia Wooley, published author with New Mexico Magazine, Santa Fe New Mexican, Blue Mesa Review, among others. Her book This Fleeting World (pub. 2020) has garnered a multiple 5-star rating on Amazon.

Contact

The University of New Mexico
John Donald Robb Musical Trust
MSC 04-2570 College of Fine Arts
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM  87131-0001

Thomas Goodrich, Program Specialist
720-319-1326 c
[email protected]
office hours by appointment