Grammy Award winners offer expertise at Salsa Music Seminar.The 3rd Annual Salsa Music Salsa music or "salsa" is a Latin music generic/umbrella term developed in New York City specifically during the 1970s that was used to describe mainly Afro-Cuban popular Latin dance music generally utilizing rhythms from Cuba, particularly son and guaracha. Seminar will be held May 22-25, 2006, at the LAX Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , California. Conducted by internationally renowned musicians of Latin music, participants will receive instruction focused on their individual instruments, as well as ensemble workshops, master classes and special clinics. The seminar culminates in a joint concert of select students and instructors as part of the opening concert at the 2006 West Coast Salsa Congress, an event that attracts more than 30,000 salsa music and dance aficionados. Grammy Award winner and musical director of the seminar, Oscar Hernandez along with the Spanish Harlem Orchestra, will join local artists as seminar instructors. Attendees will receive sheet music and an accompanying CD of the songs they are expected to learn, as well a certificate of completion. Instruction will be given on the following instruments: piano, bass, trumpet, trombone trombone [Ital.,=large trumpet], brass wind musical instrument of cylindrical bore, twice bent on itself, having a sliding section that lengthens or shortens it and thus regulates the pitch. The descendant of the sackbut, it was developed in the 15th cent. , saxophone, flute, timbals, congas, bongos, guitar, tres y cuatro cuat·ro n. pl. cuat·ros A small guitarlike instrument of Latin America, usually having four or five pairs of strings. [Spanish, from Latin quattuor, four; see quatrain.] (a stringed stringed adj. Music 1. Having strings. Often used in combination: a six-stringed lute. 2. Produced by stringed instruments: stringed chamber music. guitar-like instrument) and voice. Other instruments may be considered on an individual basis. For more information, contact Albert Tortes Productions at www.atpevents.com. |
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