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A speech by one of the directors of the Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico commemorating the birthday of Juan Morel Campos. Often includes musical demonstrations by music instructors from music schools in Puerto Rico. Thursday evening at the Teatro La Perla Annex; Danza music performance by a musical company group. Friday evening at Teatro ...
Puerto Rico competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, from 13 to 29 August 2004. This was the nation's fifteenth consecutive appearance at the Olympics. Puerto Rico Olympic Committee sent the nation's largest delegation to the Games since 1992 due to the presence of the men's basketball team. A total of 43 athletes, 32 men and 11 ...
On April 27, 1997, Figueroa was inducted into the Puerto Rican Danza Composers Hall of Fame, located in the town of San German, Puerto Rico. The Puerto Rican Institute of Culture dedicated the 1997 week of the danza to Figueroa. [1] Narciso Figueroa died in his home in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico on September 4, 2004, at the age of 98. [2]
Puerto Rico's sports competitors earned two awards in boxing: Luis Ortiz achieved the first silver medal for the island in the lightweight category, while Arístides González obtained a bronze in the middleweight category. The games also saw the first appearance of Puerto Rico's basketball team, who placed 6th, just barely missing out on a medal.
Puerto Rico's dance and music has emerged from the ritualized celebrations of the island's indigenous people to a diverse range of blended genres adapted from all over the world. Before the arrival of European explorers, the Taíno Indians, who were the island's first inhabitants, used music and dance for traditional celebrations.
Danza is a musical genre that originated in Ponce, a city in southern Puerto Rico. [1] It is a popular turn-of-the-twentieth-century ballroom dance genre slightly similar to the waltz . [ 2 ] Both the danza and its cousin the contradanza are sequence dances, performed to a pattern, usually of squares, to music that was instrumental.
In 1903, the Puerto Rico Legislature named a bridge on the Ponce to Adjuntas section of the road in his memory. [10] The bridge is located in Barrio Magueyes of the municipality of Ponce. A prominent local civic and community leader, Otero was also a member of the organizing board that made possible the 1883 Ponce Fair.
Morel Campos (full name: Juan Nepomuceno Morel Campos [2]) was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, to Manuel Morel Araujo, from the Dominican Republic, and Juana de Dios Campos Collazo, from Venezuela. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] He began to study music at the young age of eight in his hometown under the guidance of Antonio Egipciaco. [ 5 ]