Dear friends of the Spanish Circle of Philadelphia:
I am living in Phoenix!… and after a passionate life for 7 years in the forest in the suburbs – very well connected by transportation to downtown Philadelphia -, having had the opportunity to share with you all and with the latino community and all people in Philly our recitals and artistic activities such as:
+ Recital Alma y Vida de Mujer or The Soul and Life of a Woman at Rittenhouse Trinity Church,
+ Sephardic Treasures at Jamey’s music,
+ Carmina Burana as a member of the Philadelphia Symphonic Choir at the Kimmel Center – I think I must be one of the first Spanish singers who got a position to work with this reknowned Philadelphia Orchestra –
+ Concert Rosas para Lecuona honored with the visit with the Circle of the maestro Huberal Herrera, for announcing our concerts at the Philadelphia Art Alliance, Taller Puertorriqueño, and at Instituto Cervantes in New York.
+ El Carro del Amor o The Cart of Love at the Free Library and at the Philadelphia Art Alliance. – This theatrical spectacle about the Spanish Baroque was chosen to take part of the program at the Library of Congress for the Hispanic Heritage Month in 2016.
+ Presentation of my CD Con Rodrigo en Cuba at the Philadelphia Guitar Festival.
+ Slavery, Miscegenation and Liberation Series: with three parts: Broadcast of the film Huberal – Africana Soy: Study of the musical theatre of Ernesto Lecuona – The Era of Modernism: José Martí y Walt Whitman at Culture Works en Filadelfia.
And this is where I presented my recent EP selected by Fundación SGAE in 2019 and that was recorded in Havana and mixed and mastered in Ardmore, titled Sencillamente Martí.
+ On line concert Sephardic Treasures on May 1, to support the UNHCR (United Nations High Commission on Refugees) and present our new album with the same title. This new CD was mixed and mastered in South Philly and was released and available since July, 24th. You can order it almost anywhere, for example on Amazon at this link, and I invite you to get it: Soprano Meets Bass
I want to thank for your support to share my projects of Spanish vocal music and your friendship, even though I couldn’t attend all the events that you invited me to. Sometimes I was working in Cuba or in Spain, but I hope we stay in contact through my artistic activities, etc. I wish you the best of the best. Philadelphia always will remain a part of me because it has been the bridge to walk into Cuba where I found a passionate artistic source. Cuba has yielded great collaborations. I am proud to have become a cultural transmitter and proud of the quality we achieved in this work.
To all that, I add that Philadelphia brought me closer to the admirable poets Walt Whitman and Edgar Allan Poe, opening a world of possibilities for the development of my project The Era of Modernism, bringing together all of Latin America with Spain and the United States, and with the rest of the world, through poetry, music and journalism, seeking liberty and union among us all. This artistic movement created in the 20s remains relevant.
I have the intuition that Phoenix, in Arizona, whipped by the coronavirus at this moment, will be my new bridge to Mexico and South America. I hope that you love all the projects that I have been developing in Philadelphia to bridge Spain and the Americas. Please, continue to follow me in my musical adventures around the world.
Warm hug from Phoenix! Ana María Ruimonte.
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