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Join choirs from across the United States and Canada at the Discover Puerto Rico Choral Music Contact International Festival. Perform for appreciative audiences in the culturally rich southern Puerto Rico city of H N T A N U 4 A Ponce. Broaden your understanding of the unique aspects of Caribbean and Puerto Rican choral 1 L traditions during a workshop at the Juan Morel Campos Institute of Music in Ponce. Choose between hotel accommodations in the historic city center of Ponce, or at a fabulous beachside resort. The City of Ponce welcomes your choir at the opening event hosted by city officials and featuring local performances. The citizens of Ponce rejoice in the festival’s main event, where visiting and local choirs will entertain the large and enthusiastic audience at the La Perla Theater on Sunday night. Celebrate Puerto Rico’s unique musical traditions during four days of singing and discover the beautiful sights and people of this lovely Caribbean island!

“We have been on a fair number of other music AND ITS CHORAL MUSIC trips, and this was hands MARCH 13-16, 2020 down the best trip we've experienced. From the CHORAL SINGING IN THE cultural experiences to the HEART OF THE CARIBBEAN performance opportunities with Puerto Rican choirs, to the sightseeing. We couldn't be happier." Tami Haggard Thacher School 2015

Selection of Previous Participating Choirs

• L'Anse Creuse High School, L'Anse Creuse, MI • Johnson State College, Johnson, VT LEARN MORE AT MUSIC-CONTACT.COM • Cabrini College, Radnor, PA EL MORRO • Wilshire United Methodist Church Choir, LA FORTALEZA Los Angeles, CA • Sidwell Friends School, Washington, DC PONCE • Faith Lutheran High School, Las Vegas, NV • St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY PONCE CATHEDRAL SQUARE • Wellington High School, Wellington, FL • St. Stephen's Episcopal School, Austin, TX • Albion College, Albion, MI • The Thacher School, Ojai, CA TOLL FREE 800-624-0166 • Marist College Chamber Choir, Gardiner, NY TEL 802-862-2200 • FAX 802-862-2251 119 South Winooski Avenue Burlington, Vermont 05401 USA • Dearborn Community Chorus, Dearborn, MI www.music-contact.com • [email protected] LAND PACKAGE INCLUDES Online Payment System 14TH ANNUAL • Each traveler can make individual trip payments online Accommodations with a debit or credit card. 3 nights in either a resort-style hotel on the Caribbean Sea - or - a • Group leaders receive weekly automated reports with historic downtown Ponce hotel traveler balances and due dates. Transportation Additional Materials A private, modern, air-conditioned motor coach with a • Customized handbook for each person traveling with your AND ITS CHORAL MUSIC professional driver is provided for all transportation as described choir, including a detailed program and travel information in the itinerary. MARCH 13-16, 2020 • Luggage tags Meals LAND PACKAGE PRICE • Breakfast each morning at the hotel • Dinner on arrival night Based on a minimum of 30 paying travelers in double occupancy: • Dinner with host choir Downtown City Hotel: • Farewell reception $832.00 per person in quad room Performance Opportunities TOLL FREE 800-624-0166 • Workshop on Puerto Rican music $861.00 per person in triple room • Friendship concert with Puerto Rican choir $918.00 per person in double room • Sunday worship service SAN JUAN • Participation in group sing during festival concert FRIDAY, MARCH 13 Beachfront Hotel/Resort: Welcome to Puerto Rico Opening Ceremony Special Events • Opening ceremony $1,091.00 per person in quad room Upon arrival in San Juan, meet your Music Contact International • Festival concert tour manager and board your private motor coach for sightseeing in $1,183.00 per person in triple room the historic center. Tour La Fortaleza, the official residence of the Tour Manager $1,241.00 per person in double room Governor of Puerto Rico. Walk through the cobblestone streets of Old Full-time Music Contact International tour manager to San Juan and enjoy a visit to El Morro, the 15th-century Spanish fort accompany your group during their entire stay, from arrival FLIGHTS at the mouth of San Juan Harbor. to departure. Please contact us for airfare quotes from your nearest airport. Later, drive across the Island to Ponce. Gather for the opening Complimentary Places ceremony, which includes wonderful performances by local Puerto Two complimentary land packages for every 30 paying travelers ADDITIONAL DAYS ABROAD Rican musicians and welcoming words from representatives of the in single rooms. host city of Ponce. After the presentation, you’ll be treated to a lovely If your choir is interested in staying in Puerto Rico for additional days, dinner and have an opportunity to mingle with your fellow attendees. Traveler’s Resource Website please let us know. We will be glad to offer an extension tour, with singing or without, according to your choir’s interests. Featuring: Itinerary, Maps, recommended books, movies, and more! EL MORRO SATURDAY, MARCH 14 Ponce: “La Perla Del Sur” (Pearl of the South) CONCERT LEARN MORE AT MUSIC-CONTACT.COM This morning, participate in a workshop on Puerto Rican music. You will learn about classic, local genres such as Bomba and Plena. Your choir will also rehearse the theme song for the festival, which will be performed in a massed sing on the last night of the festival. Tonight, your choir will enjoy a friendship concert. You’ll be matched with a choir from Puerto Rico and Marilucy Rodriguez Vazquez spend the evening performing for and socializing with each other. Dinner will be provided by your host choir. Co-Artistic Director Marilucy Rodríguez Vázquez, co-director of the Discover Puerto Rico Choral Festival, has a rich and varied choral background. In 1989, she received her Masters in Music Concentration in Vocal Pedagogy at the University of Arizona, LA PERLA CONCERT Tempe. For the past 18 years, she has acted as director of the concert choir at the University of Puerto Rico in Ponce. Prior SUNDAY, MARCH 15 Closing Ceremony CONCERT to that, she acted as director of the choir at Inter-American University in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, as well as a teacher of music in different institutions throughout the island,pr including Presbyterian College, Mayagüez, and Montessori College, This morning, there is the opportunity to perform during a morning Cupey. She has acted as choral director for the Christmas concert alongside the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra in 2000, worship service in one of Ponce’s beautiful churches. The afternoon is the Santo Domingo Symphony Orchestra, and in a concert with the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra (held at Carnegie free to enjoy shopping in town or spend some time exploring the beach. Hall) in 2003, among many others. This evening, the Discover Puerto Rico choral concert will include all festival choirs gathered together at the newly renovated Teatro La Perla to Professor Ruben Colón-Tarrats perform for the people of Ponce! After choirs sing individual programs, Festival Conductor and Co-Artistic Director all participating choirs will join voices and perform the theme song of the Professor Colón-Tarrats has toured the United States, Dominican Republic, Netherlands Antilles, Argentina, and Chile festival composed by Puerto Rican composer and co-artistic director of the with his choral groups. In 2005, he attended the Verona, Italy International Choral Fest, where the idea for the Discover Festival, Mr. Rubén Colón Tarrats. Afterwards, enjoy a farewell reception Puerto Rico Choral Festival was conceived. with all participating choirs. Born in New York City and raised in Ponce, Puerto Rico, Professor Colón-Tarrats received his music education from the Free School of Music in Ponce, Inter-American University in San Germán, Puerto Rico, and Temple University in CARIBBEAN VIEW Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is a highly recognized creator of many choral compositions and arrangements in Puerto Rico and abroad. He has authored more than 200 arrangements of Puerto Rican choral music, and a good number of MONDAY, MARCH 16 Departure instrumental arrangements and compositions. Professor Colón-Tarrats is also the artistic director and conductor of Following breakfast at the hotel, enjoy the morning at your Pontiﬁcal Catholic University of Puerto Rico Concert Choir, where he teaches conducting and musical forms. He is also leisure. Revisit some of your favorite sites in Ponce, like the conductor of the Ponce Municipal Band, a musical institution that is over 125 years old. He acted as president to the spectacular art museum, or enjoy extra time at the beach. Later, Puerto Rican Choral Directors Association, and is a founding member of Ars Nova, a chamber group specialized in renaissance and baroque vocal music. He was artistic and musical director of the Ponce Polyphonic Chorale for 18 years. you’ll depart by motor coach for the airport in San Juan and your return flight home. LAND PACKAGE INCLUDES Online Payment System 14TH ANNUAL • Each traveler can make individual trip payments online Accommodations with a debit or credit card. 3 nights in either a resort-style hotel on the Caribbean Sea - or - a • Group leaders receive weekly automated reports with historic downtown Ponce hotel traveler balances and due dates. Transportation Additional Materials A private, modern, air-conditioned motor coach with a • Customized handbook for each person traveling with your AND ITS CHORAL MUSIC professional driver is provided for all transportation as described choir, including a detailed program and travel information in the itinerary. MARCH 13-16, 2020 • Luggage tags Meals LAND PACKAGE PRICE • Breakfast each morning at the hotel • Dinner on arrival night Based on a minimum of 30 paying travelers in double occupancy: • Dinner with host choir Downtown City Hotel: • Farewell reception $832.00 per person in quad room Performance Opportunities TOLL FREE 800-624-0166 • Workshop on Puerto Rican music $861.00 per person in triple room • Friendship concert with Puerto Rican choir $918.00 per person in double room • Sunday worship service SAN JUAN • Participation in group sing during festival concert FRIDAY, MARCH 13 Beachfront Hotel/Resort: Welcome to Puerto Rico Opening Ceremony Special Events • Opening ceremony $1,091.00 per person in quad room Upon arrival in San Juan, meet your Music Contact International • Festival concert tour manager and board your private motor coach for sightseeing in $1,183.00 per person in triple room the historic center. Tour La Fortaleza, the official residence of the Tour Manager $1,241.00 per person in double room Governor of Puerto Rico. Walk through the cobblestone streets of Old Full-time Music Contact International tour manager to San Juan and enjoy a visit to El Morro, the 15th-century Spanish fort accompany your group during their entire stay, from arrival FLIGHTS at the mouth of San Juan Harbor. to departure. Please contact us for airfare quotes from your nearest airport. Later, drive across the Island to Ponce. Gather for the opening Complimentary Places ceremony, which includes wonderful performances by local Puerto Two complimentary land packages for every 30 paying travelers ADDITIONAL DAYS ABROAD Rican musicians and welcoming words from representatives of the in single rooms. host city of Ponce. After the presentation, you’ll be treated to a lovely If your choir is interested in staying in Puerto Rico for additional days, dinner and have an opportunity to mingle with your fellow attendees. Traveler’s Resource Website please let us know. We will be glad to offer an extension tour, with singing or without, according to your choir’s interests. Featuring: Itinerary, Maps, recommended books, movies, and more! EL MORRO SATURDAY, MARCH 14 Ponce: “La Perla Del Sur” (Pearl of the South) CONCERT LEARN MORE AT MUSIC-CONTACT.COM This morning, participate in a workshop on Puerto Rican music. You will learn about classic, local genres such as Bomba and Plena. Your choir will also rehearse the theme song for the festival, which will be performed in a massed sing on the last night of the festival. Tonight, your choir will enjoy a friendship concert. You’ll be matched with a choir from Puerto Rico and Marilucy Rodriguez Vazquez spend the evening performing for and socializing with each other. Dinner will be provided by your host choir. Co-Artistic Director Marilucy Rodríguez Vázquez, co-director of the Discover Puerto Rico Choral Festival, has a rich and varied choral background. In 1989, she received her Masters in Music Concentration in Vocal Pedagogy at the University of Arizona, LA PERLA CONCERT Tempe. For the past 18 years, she has acted as director of the concert choir at the University of Puerto Rico in Ponce. Prior SUNDAY, MARCH 15 Closing Ceremony CONCERT to that, she acted as director of the choir at Inter-American University in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, as well as a teacher of music in different institutions throughout the island,pr including Presbyterian College, Mayagüez, and Montessori College, This morning, there is the opportunity to perform during a morning Cupey. She has acted as choral director for the Christmas concert alongside the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra in 2000, worship service in one of Ponce’s beautiful churches. The afternoon is the Santo Domingo Symphony Orchestra, and in a concert with the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra (held at Carnegie free to enjoy shopping in town or spend some time exploring the beach. Hall) in 2003, among many others. This evening, the Discover Puerto Rico choral concert will include all festival choirs gathered together at the newly renovated Teatro La Perla to Professor Ruben Colón-Tarrats perform for the people of Ponce! After choirs sing individual programs, Festival Conductor and Co-Artistic Director all participating choirs will join voices and perform the theme song of the Professor Colón-Tarrats has toured the United States, Dominican Republic, Netherlands Antilles, Argentina, and Chile festival composed by Puerto Rican composer and co-artistic director of the with his choral groups. In 2005, he attended the Verona, Italy International Choral Fest, where the idea for the Discover Festival, Mr. Rubén Colón Tarrats. Afterwards, enjoy a farewell reception Puerto Rico Choral Festival was conceived. with all participating choirs. Born in New York City and raised in Ponce, Puerto Rico, Professor Colón-Tarrats received his music education from the Free School of Music in Ponce, Inter-American University in San Germán, Puerto Rico, and Temple University in CARIBBEAN VIEW Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is a highly recognized creator of many choral compositions and arrangements in Puerto Rico and abroad. He has authored more than 200 arrangements of Puerto Rican choral music, and a good number of MONDAY, MARCH 16 Departure instrumental arrangements and compositions. Professor Colón-Tarrats is also the artistic director and conductor of Following breakfast at the hotel, enjoy the morning at your Pontiﬁcal Catholic University of Puerto Rico Concert Choir, where he teaches conducting and musical forms. He is also leisure. Revisit some of your favorite sites in Ponce, like the conductor of the Ponce Municipal Band, a musical institution that is over 125 years old. He acted as president to the spectacular art museum, or enjoy extra time at the beach. Later, Puerto Rican Choral Directors Association, and is a founding member of Ars Nova, a chamber group specialized in renaissance and baroque vocal music. He was artistic and musical director of the Ponce Polyphonic Chorale for 18 years. you’ll depart by motor coach for the airport in San Juan and your return flight home.