Museo de la Canción Yucateca (Museum of the Yucatecan Song)

November 19, 2013

Located on Calle 57 near Calle 50, the Museo de la Canción Yucateca is one of the great places to visit in Mérida – and fundamentally important as an archive for researching music for The Mapmaker’s Opera! The museum was founded on November 5, 1978, at the initiative of Mrs. Rosario Caceres Baqueiro Chamomile, granddaughter […]

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An Introduction To Flamenco Percussion

October 27, 2013

I thought I would do a quick post on the basics of Flamenco Percussion, as percussion in The Stranger from Seville (adapted from the novel, The Mapmaker’s Opera, by Béa Gonzalez) is an integral element to the sound world we create in the Musical. Contextually, we make use of the flamenco sound world especially in

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