Contralto Ana Caridad Acosta and guitarist Gerardo Matamoros will perform this April 24 works by Quirino Mendoza, Joaquín Pardavé and Manuel M. Ponce, among other renowned creators of the Mexican musical tradition.
This will be the first time the National Day of Traditional Mexican Music It is formally celebrated after being approved almost unanimously in the Congress of the Union and published in the Official Gazette of the Federation, with the aim of contributing to the preservation, revaluation, dissemination and renewal of national sound creation.
According to Acosta, this declaration “is highly relevant because it recognizes the importance of Mexican concert music and raises it to the level of high culture.” The chosen works are intended to be a sampling of the enormous musical diversity of our country.
Ana Caridad Acosta was baptized in Costa Rica as “Contralto de América”. She has been accompanied by important orchestras in Latin America and Europe, sharing the stage with Ramón Vargas, María Katzarava, María Luisa Tamez, Lourdes Ambriz, Stéfano De Peppo, María Hanneman and Carlos Alberto Pecero, among others, in venues such as the Main Hall of the Palace of Fine Arts, the Esperanza Iris City Theater, the Nezahualcóyotl Hall, the Lunario of the National Auditorium, l’Arxiu del Regne (Barcelona) or the National Theater of San Salvador (El Salvador).
In 2020 he was part of the posthumous tribute to Armando Manzanero by the Secretary of Culture of Mexico City, together with Susana Zabaleta and Tania Libertad.
The concert is part of the cycle The Colors of the Voice of the National Coordination of Music and Opera of the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature (INBAL). It will take place next Sunday, April 24 at 6 pm in the Manuel M. Ponce Hall of the Palace of Fine Arts. Tickets are now on sale at the venue’s box office and at Ticketmaster with a general cost of twenty pesos.
About the National Day of Traditional Mexican Music
- The celebration coincides with the 74th death anniversary of Manuel M. Ponce, who died on April 24, 1948 in Mexico City, and with his 140th birthday on December 8, 1882, in Fresnillo, Zacatecas.
- The decree that declares April 24 as “National Day of Traditional Mexican Music” was published on February 18, 2022 in the Official Gazette of the Federation, entering into force the following day.
- It is an initiative promoted in the Legislative Power by the then emecist deputy Martha Tagle.
- In the Chamber of Deputies, the opinion was voted without discussion with 410 votes in favor, 1 against and 0 abstentions.