WHAT'S HAPPENING : ART.Songs of the Southwest: It's called corrido cor·ri·do n. pl. cor·ri·dos A Mexican ballad or folksong. [American Spanish, from Spanish, ballad, from past participle of correr, to run , the tradition of Mexican ballad that has survived some 200 years and still flourishes from Tijuana to Fresno. Rooted in Spanish, American Indian and Arabic-Iberian cultural history, the corrido reflects community values and perspectives in poems set to music. Versatile and down-to-earth, its narratives point to a wide variety of everyday themes, from family and romance to war, banditry and, ah, horse-racing. This summer, UCLA's Chicano Studies Research Center and the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History The Fowler Museum at UCLA or more commonly, The Fowler is a museum on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) which explores art and material culture primarily from Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and the Americas, past and present. are attempting to rope all those meanings into one ambitious exhibition, ``Corridos Sin Fronteras: The Art of a Ballad Tradition in Mexico and the U.S.'' Running through Sept. 27, it opens today with an 8 p.m. screening of the documentary film ``Chulas Fronteras.'' Sunday will mark the opening of the exhibition, which includes new and vintage sound recordings, photos, posters, musical instruments, weapons and other memorabilia. As part of the museum's ``Summer Sunset Series,'' the Fowler also will hold monthly performances by local conjuntos (musicians) and interpreters of the corrido, plus a guitar-making demonstration by the renowned Delgado family of Candelas Guitars in Los Angeles and other events. Still ahead: a special benefit concert June 11 by the Grammy Award-winning ensemble Los Tigres del Norte Los Tigres del Norte is one of the most popular norteño bands, from Rosa Morada, Sinaloa, Mexico. The group was started by Jorge Hernández, his brothers, and a cousin, and began recording after moving to San Jose, California in the late 1960s, when all the members were still in at the newly reopened Royce Hall. Exhibition hours are noon to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays and noon to 8 p.m. Thursdays. For information, call (310) 794-5788. - Reed Johnson music Taste of `Tequila': If you've grooved to Wes Montgomery's tasty jukebox classic ``Tequila,'' you've downed a spicy shot of Ray Barretto's congas. Percussionist and band leader Barretto might be the most recorded musician in Latin jazz, helping to bring Afro-Cuban rhythms to a variety of genres. In the early years, Barretto got busy with Tito Puente while moonlighting with such late '50s boppers as Red Garland, Lou Donaldson and Gene Ammons. After establishing himself as a leader, he recorded with Kenny Burrell, Cal Tjader and Freddie Hubbard, adding distinctive Latin syncopation syncopation (sĭng'kəpā`shən, sĭn'–) [New Gr.,=cut off ], in music, the accentuation of a beat that normally would be weak according to the rhythmic division of the measure. to classic Montgomery albums like ``So Much Guitar'' and ``Tequila.'' The Brooklyn-born Barretto went on to become musical director of the acclaimed Fania All Stars before releasing a string of solo albums, including his latest, ``Contact!'' with his New World Spirit orchestra. Barretto and band appear Sunday in a free concert sponsored by the Playboy Jazz Festival The Playboy Jazz Festival is an annual event sponsored by Playboy Enterprises to celebrate jazz as well as feature both established and up and coming musicians of the genre. It was founded by Hugh Hefner and was first held in Chicago, Illinois at the Chicago Stadium in 1959. at Santa Monica College's Corsair corsair: see Barbary States; piracy. Field. Also on the bill is keyboardist Brian Culbertson and late-night TV's ``Vibe'' drummer Terri Lyne Carrington Terri Lyne Carrington (born 1965 in Medford, Massachusetts) is a musician, composer, producer and clinician. Recently, she was appointed professor at her alma mater, Berklee College of Music, which is also where she received an honorary doctorate in 2003. with vocalist Carmen Carmen throws over lover for another. [Fr. Lit.: Carmen; Fr. Opera: Bizet, Carmen, Westerman, 189–190] See : Faithlessness Carmen the cards repeatedly spell her death. [Fr. Lundy. Corsair Field is at 1900 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. Admission is free; on-campus parking is $3. Gates open at 12:30 p.m. and music starts at 2 p.m. Information: (310) 449-4070. - Fred Shuster television Back to Barbary Lane: ``Armistead Maupin's More Tales of the City'' (9 p.m. Sunday and Monday on Showtime) is a return to 28 Barbary Lane - one of the most memorable addresses in television history. Premiering Sunday on Showtime, engaging ``More Tales'' continues the chronicle of extended family and gay life in 1970s San Francisco so brilliantly portrayed in the PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, classic ``Tales of the City.'' Six hours long, ``More Tales'' is based on Maupin's fictional columns for the San Francisco Chronicle The San Francisco Chronicle was founded in 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H. de Young.[2] The paper grew along with San Francisco to become the largest circulation newspaper on the West Coast of the , 1976-1977. Mysteries abound as we revisit transsexual trans·sex·u·al n. A person who strongly identifies with the opposite gender and who chooses to live as a member of the opposite gender or to become one by surgery. adj. 1. Of or relating to such a person. 2. landlady Anna Madrigal (Olympia Dukakis) and her soulful young tenants of varying sexual orientations. Sometimes forced, lacking the pure magic of the original, ``More Tales'' still casts a satisfying spell. Canadian actress Jackie Burroughs is simply spectacular as Madrigal's crusty mother, a Texas whorehouse madam tough as beef jerky. Note: graphic language and nudity. - Kinney Littlefield Orange County Register film Redford's love affair: The Montana landscapes, the magnificent horses, the satisfying simplicity of ranch life - you can understand why Kristin Scott Thomas' high-powered magazine editor falls in love in ``The Horse Whisperer.'' Even if her relationship with Robert Redford's title character, a cowboy with a special knack for healing traumatized horses and their female owners, is a little less than convincing, it's easy to see how the whole environment makes her woozy. Directing himself for the first time, Redford pours all of his love for the West into this beautifully crafted, leisurely paced film. He's also jettisoned some of the more florid florid /flor·id/ (flor´id) 1. in full bloom; occurring in fully developed form. 2. having a bright red color. flor·id adj. Of a bright red or ruddy color. melodrama from Nicholas Evans' best-selling source novel, along with some of its passion. Still, this is an intelligent and, in its way with nature, movingly sensuous film experience. - Bob Strauss CAPTION(S): 3 Photos Photo: (1) Corridista Lydia Mendoza appears in the documentary ``Chulas Fronteras,'' screening tonight at UCLA's Fowler Museum. (2) Conga player Ray Barretto brings his band to a Playboy Jazz Festival-sponsored concert Sunday in Santa Monica. (3) A magazine editor (Kristin Scott Thomas Kristin Scott Thomas OBE (born 24 May 1960) is an Academy Award-nominated English actress. Biography Kristin Scott Thomas was born in Redruth, Cornwall. Her father was a pilot for the Royal Navy and died in a flying accident in 1964, and she is the older sister of the ) is drawn to a Montana cowboy (Robert Redford) with a gift of healing in ``The Horse Whisperer.'' |
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