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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 19, 2012 7:50:19 GMT
Thanks, Lola! I'm pretty sure both spellings of posole/pozole are correct. They're pronounced exactly the same. Too true that pork posole is mo bettah than chicken pozole! I do my token shocked thing about the rather casual attitude towards safety here, but remain grateful that it allows such glories as fireworks. The music is always amazing, if for nothing else, the sheer stamina of the musicians. Admittedly, sometimes the standards can be dirge-like, probably because the bands are sick of them. But other times they really swing with enthusiastic innovations. Here are some items that might interest you: this one makes it seem as though the town's school is singular, but I've been told that many of these mountain towns have music schools, to insure that they'll always have a band. And here is an article profiling the kind of spirit that fans the spark in such schools. Nonesuch has an album featuring the traditional music -- although I wish the linked pages specified which pieces were from Oaxaca & which from Chiapas. Finally, you might enjoy this profile of a venerable instrument.
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Post by lola on Dec 21, 2012 16:40:58 GMT
Wonderful, Bixa. Thank you. How great to have music in small towns like that.
My most memorable Midnight Mass was at a little mountain church in northern NM, outlined with farolitas, with a mariachi type band providing the music. The chunkachunka of the beat was funny with the flowing glorias in Angels We Have Heard on High.
The bajo quinto link has a sidebar today about Mexican tenor Rolando Villazon, mentioning his health problems. Bless him, if so, and not just because we have cheap seats to hear him sing in a couple of weeks.
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Post by lugg on Dec 23, 2012 7:35:38 GMT
Really enjoyed reading this and looking at the wonderful photos and videos.
I was wondering how it is all funded - do the community all contribute ?
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 1, 2013 18:26:26 GMT
Thank you, Lola. Also thanks for that lovely memory, which sounds like the most enchanting Christmas ever. Mariachi are LOUD inside a church, aren't they? ;D I learned about Rolando Villazon from you a while back, a point of enduring gratitude. Get well, Sr. Villazon! Thanks so much, Lugg. I covered community costs for events in this wedding thread. Actually, I've wondered about the costs for this particular pyrotechnic event myself. That's because the chapel is always doing things to raise money, but then seems to blow it all on fun stuff like this. But hey ~~ it's for the Virgin of Guadalupe!
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