Recording of Beatriz Ferreyra's "Echos" with vocals by Mercedes Cornu. The piece was made from the "destructuration" of four Latin American songs: two Argentinian and two Brazilian. Cornu uses a variety of vocal sounds (long and short sounds, breaths, coughs, etc.).

Ensemble concert performed at the UNT College of Music Kenton Hall.

Beginner and Advanced Afro-Cuban Ensembles, Brazilian Ensemble and Latin Jazz Lab Band concert performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

Jazz vocal concert performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

Latin Jazz concert performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

Advanced Afro Cuban and Brazilian ensemble concert performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

Beginner and Advanced Afro-Cuban Ensembles, Brazilian Ensemble, and Latin Jazz Lab Band concert performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

Latin music concert performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

Latin music concert performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

Recording of alcides lanza's Voo. The lyrics of this composition are primarily in Portuguese, but the composer specifically chose to play with the source material, basing lyrics on poems which appear in NO OUVIDO DO TEMPO/NO OLVIDO DO TEMPO, a remarkable book of poetry by the Brazilian poet and composer Gil Nuno Vaz. Special acknowledgement is given to the Brazilian poet Raul de Leoni (1895-1926), since Gil Nuno Vaz integrated into his own poems some lines from an unpublished book by de Leoni, No Ouvido do Tempo. As a result, the Portuguese blends into Spanish and Italian intentionally, acting as a catalyst joining the notions of Columbus, Italian explorer, departing from Spain to explore the unknown sea; Columbus, whose writings in Spanish showed strong traces of Portuguese and Italian; and the fact that Portuguese and Spanish are the prevalent languages from Mexico to Tierra del Fuego. In addition, by looking at the text in a kaleidoscopic way, "other" words and sentences, in existing or imaginary languages could be encountered. With all these elements, the composer "tells" the story of the opening up of a new world - struggles and religion as icons on the way to modern civilization. Voo is …

Jazz concert performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

Latin popular music concert performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

Latin ensemble concert performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

Ensemble concert presented at the UNT College of Music Concert Hall.

A concert performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

A concert performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, and Latin Jazz concert performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

Beginner and Advanced Afro-Cuban ensembles, Brazilian ensemble and Latin Jazz Lab ensemble music concert performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

Afro-Cuban, Brazillian, and Latin jazz concert performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

UNT Beginner and Advanced Afro-Cuban Ensemble, UNT Brazilian Ensemble, and UNT Latin Jazz Lab Band performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.