Coffee & Headlines • March 8, 2021

From today’s broadcast:

HEADLINES

More vaccines arrive in Nayarit: https://contralinea.net/llega-otro-lote-de-vacunas-a-nayarit-lunes-comenzaria-aplicacion-a-adultos-mayores-de-bahia-de-banderas/

New local political party ‘Hagamos’ chooses candidates: http://www.noticiaspv.com.mx/hagamos-elige-candidatas-y-candidatos-a-presidencias-municipales-y-diputaciones-locales/


LEISURE

Semana Santa reservations on the rise: https://contralinea.net/crecen-reservaciones-con-miras-al-proximo-periodo-vacacional/


MUSIC MONDAY: Estrellita, by Manuel M. Ponce

WATCH: The clip from the 1939 film ‘They Shall Have Music!’ where renowned violinistJascha Heifetz performs the song.

WATCH: American operatic soprano Ailyn Pérez from Chicago’s Lyric Opera performs the song, with music director Doug Peck, October 2020.

LISTEN: Mexican tenor Rolando Villazón performs the song, from his 2021 album, ‘¡Viva México!

WATCH: Canadian violinist Blake Pouliot performs the song, October 2017.

WATCH: American cellist and professor Biong Tsang performs the song with Lo-Kien Kao at the piano, live at Austin City Hall, June 2017.

WATCH: Australian-Taiwanese violinist Ray Chen performs the song as a soloist with the Amsterdan Sinfonietta, February 2019.


Did you enjoy this feature?
Become a Supporting Member!

If you found this feature useful, consider becoming a subscriber! Maintaining this website advertiser-free allows me to focus on topics truly important to you, the reader. Become a subscriber by clicking on the coffee icon below! Thank you in advance for your continued support! —Paco

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is buy-me-a-coffee-logo.jpg
(If you are unable to click on the coffee icon, please click here.)

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.