According to the Core Ensemble's website, "Los Valientes is a chamber music theatre production for solo actor and trio (cello, piano, percussion) by the Core Ensemble."
"It explores the artistic and political passions of Mexican painter Diego Rivera, the unwavering commitment to human rights of Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero, and the pursuit of social justice by Mexican American desperado Juaquin Murrieta aka Zorro. Music for this show features songs and concert/vernacular music by a wide range of Latin American composers including Astor Piazzolla and Osvaldo Golijov."
Core Ensemble's David Perez-Ribada was on campus to perform "Los Valientes." Perez-Ribada, has performed a wide variety of stage roles throughout the United States, including the World Premiere of "Anna in the Tropics." He has appeared on the Fox TV Network as well as in several independent films. David studied acting at Florida International University and now resides in New York City.
Since 1993, the Core Ensemble has toured nationally to every region of the United States and internationally to England, Russia, the Ukraine, Australia and the British Virgin Islands. The Ensemble was the recipient of the 2000 Eugene McDermott Award for Excellence in the Arts awarded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has received support from the State of Florida Department of Cultural Affairs, New England Foundation for the Arts, Palm Beach County Cultural Council, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music and the Virgil Thomson Foundation.
Core Ensemble previously visited Peru State to present "Ebony Embers" about Harlem Renaissance figures including African American poets – Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen and Claude McKay – as seen through the eyes of the great painter and muralist Aaron Douglas and "Ain't I A Woman" about the life of significant African American Women: ex-slave and fiery abolitionist Sojourner Truth, renowned novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, exuberant folk artist Clementine Hunter and fervent civil rights worker Fannie Lou Hamer.
To learn more about Los Valientes and the Core Ensemble, go to their website at http://www.coreensemble.com/shows-on-tour/los-valientes/
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This release was contributed to by Quentin victor