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Presentation of the National Music Awards 2012<\/STRONG> T<\/SPAN>he award offers 250 thousand pesos for each category.<\/EM><\/STRONG><\/P> The Ministry of Culture presented the “National Music Awards 2012”, whose objective is to promote music-making in the Dominican Republic, in both the classical and popular forms. The opening remarks were offered by Juan Tom\u00e1s Garc\u00eda, who congratulated the award winners and announced the call for the 2014 National Music Awards, which will be open from April 8th to June 30th.<\/P> He also reported the approval of the Directorate of Art Research, the Virtual Museum of Dominican Music, and the preparation of the ATLAS of Dominican music.<\/P> The awards were presented to the winning musicians by Minister Jos\u00e9 Antonio Rodr\u00edguez and Juan Tom\u00e1s Garc\u00eda.<\/P> The award-winning categories in the classical music genre were: symphonic, choral and chamber. In the popular music genre: ballad, pop, jazz, and dance.<\/P> In the “symphonic” category, Manuel Antonio Tejada, under the pseudonym “GUATACA”, won the award with the piece “El sue\u00f1o de mi padre” (My father\u2019s dream). In the “choral” category, Emigdio Caonex Peguero won with his composition “Obertura Moringa” (Moringa Overture). While Manuel Antonio Tejada, under the pseudonym “Jutia”, won in the “dance” category, with the proposal “Solo con un beso” (Only with a kiss).<\/P> In the “pop” section, Juan Samuel Ernesto Mart\u00ednez, using the pseudonym “Zion” won with the proposal “D\u00f3nde estar\u00e1s” (Where would you be). Likewise, Manuel Antonio Tejada, under the pseudonym “Agricultor ” (Farmer) won the award in the “jazz music” category with the theme “Contando Nubes” (Counting Clouds).<\/P> Jos\u00e9 Enrique Esp\u00edn Santiago, under the pseudonym “Yan”, won the award in the “folk” category with “Ritmos de Palos” (Rhythms of Palos); and, Ariela Mercedes Guridy Victoria, under the pseudonym “Isabela”, won the award in the “children music” category with the proposal “Sin Invitaci\u00f3n” (Without Invitation).<\/P> The winners were selected by a jury with expertise in each category. In the classical music, the jury was made of: Julio De Windt, Jacinto Gimbernard and Jos\u00e9 Antonio Molina. The jury in the popular category was made of: Dionis Fern\u00e1ndez, Jorge Taveras and Maridalia Hern\u00e1ndez. And the jury in the choral music category was made of: Santiago Fals and Andr\u00e9s Vidal.<\/P> Presentation of the National Music Awards 2012Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 03\/28\/2014 The award offers 250 thousand pesos for each category. The Ministry of Culture presented the “National Music Awards 2012”, whose objective is to promote music-making in the Dominican Republic, in both the classical and popular forms.The event, which took place at 11:00 am at … Continue reading “Presentation of the National Music Awards 2012”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 03\/28\/2014<\/P>
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The event, which took place at 11:00 am at the Ministry\u2019s headquarters, was chaired by Minister Jos\u00e9 Antonio Rodr\u00edguez. The following persons participated together with the Minister: Juan Tom\u00e1s Garc\u00eda, Coordinator of the Vice Ministry of Popular Participation and Creativity; Eduardo D\u00edaz, Coordinator of the Vice Ministry of Cultural Industries; Luis Rivera, Coordinator of the Vice Ministry of Citizenship and Participation; and, Irasema Jimini\u00e1n, Director of Communications, as well as the award winners and the members of the selection juries.<\/P>
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