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| Written by Brian McCauley | |||
| Friday, 19 June 2009 07:29 | |||
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Local residents looking to give dads a unique cultural experience for Father’s Day on Sunday will have the opportunity to do so during the kickoff of the first-ever 10-day International Festival of Spanish and Latin American Music at Paola Community Center. Genaro Méndez Jr., professor of voice and opera studies at the University of Kansas, organized the free event, which will include educators, performers and students. Some of those scheduled to perform include Julio Alexis Munoz, of Madrid, a master vocal coach, pianist and expert in Spanish art song; Portugal’s Carlos Gutkin, an Argentinean classical guitarist; Charles Badami, of Bakersfield, Calif., an American pianist and instructor at Northwest Missouri State University; Helen Tintes-Schuermann, an American voice teacher and mezzo-soprano who has performed in several operatic roles; Michelle Heffner Hayes, an American choreographer and professor of dance at KU, and Méndez, among others, according to the event’s Web site at www.fimel.org. The festival will begin with a 2 p.m. performance Sunday at the Paola Community Center. There also are performances scheduled at Liberty Hall in Lawrence and the Polsky Theatre at the Carlsen Center in Overland Park on the campus of Johnson County Community College. Anyone who attends the free concert can expect to hear pieces involving solo guitar, solo piano, guitar and voice, piano and voice, soprano and alto duet and Spanish operetta, Méndez said. The performances should last about 90 minutes.
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