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Wilfrido María Guerrero (January 22, 1910 – April 28, 1995) was a Filipino playwright, director, teacher and theater artist. He wrote over 100 plays, 41 of which have been published. He wrote over 100 plays, 41 of which have been published.
One Filipinos American theater company is Ma-Yi Theater Company, started in 1989. [3] In 1991 the National Asian American Theater Co., Inc (NAATCO) was founded and is also a company that involves Filipino American plays and Filipino American casts. Another organization that organizes Filipino playwrights is Sining Bayan. [1]
Rosa Ramirez Guerrero (born November 14, 1934) [1] is a Mexican American educator, artist and historian from El Paso, Texas. She was the founder of the International Folklorico Dance Group. Guerrero has also been active with work in the Catholic Church, [2] and has been called the "Dancing Missionary" in religious circles. [3]
Guerrero's music was both sacred and secular, unlike that of Victoria and Morales, the two other Spanish 16th-century composers of the first rank. He wrote numerous secular songs and instrumental pieces, in addition to masses , motets , and Passions .
The first original production for Theater in America was of Enemies. [7] In 1974, WNET added The Great Performance, a series of classical concerts. [8] In 1976, Great Performances became the umbrella title and the music section was named Music in America. A third section, Dance In America, was also added.
The Federal Music Project of the Works Progress Administration: Music in a Democracy (University of Minnesota Press, 1963) Gough, Peter, and Peggy Seeger, Sounds of the New Deal: The Federal Music Project in the West (2015) Galván, Gary. "The ABCs of the WPA Music Copying Project and the Fleisher Collection". American Music. 26, Number 4 ...
Vaudevillean Mamie Smith records "Crazy Blues" for Okeh Records, the first blues song commercially recorded by an African-American singer, [1] [2] [3] the first blues song recorded at all by an African-American woman, [4] and the first vocal blues recording of any kind, [5] a few months after making the first documented recording by an African-American female singer, [6] "You Can't Keep a Good ...
He wanted to "dance man and woman in America today". He was most famous for his work with Doris Humphrey, with whom he started the Humphrey-Weidman Company. The two met when they were dancing in the Denishawn Company (of Ted Shawn and Ruth St. Denis) and they soon after decided to create a dance company that built off a "dance style that sprang ...