As part of Hispanic Heritage Month, Puerto Rican composer Lourdes Pérez will perform in concert Oct. 2 and lead a songwriting workshop Oct. 3.
Pérez, a well-known contemporary recording artist, songwriter, composer, arranger, poet, contralto vocalist and acoustic guitarist, will play a free concert in the Performing Arts Complex, room 106, Thursday from noon to 1 p.m.
“If you haven’t heard Lourdes sing, you should” said Annette D’armata, a long time colleague of Pérez. “I think when one person sings, it’s not just about that one person. When Lourdes sings, she brings everybody behind her, with her.”
The Compose Yourself workshop, sponsored brought by the Cultural Awareness Center and International Studies Program, will be held in the Cultural Awareness Center Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The daylong event delves into the heart and soul of songwriting with Pérez. This is an opportunity for people with no prior experience in lyric writing or music composing to be guided through the process of writing songs.
Pérez will be actively working with participants to assemble words, phrases and themes in order to combine them and turn them into song lyrics. After that, they will be given choices of many different chord progressions and rhythms, using them to evoke and convey their emotions through the songs they wrote.
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Compose Yourself is open to everyone. Those wanting to participate can sign up for the workshop to compose a collective song with Pérez and others by the end of the morning of the event. Doing so will give the chance to create an individual song by the afternoon.
Pérez’s inspiration toward her music comes from her Jíbara roots, a mountain in Puerto Rico, mixed in with a genre of Spanish and Latin-American music called Nueva Trova or Nueva Canción.
“Every time I come to play, I learn from that place and the fact that students have agreed to participate is very moving to me” said Pérez, who is excited to be back at City College and be able to interact with the students once more. “Although sometimes you may not speak the same language, you can tell when somebody is really listening or if you’re really connecting with somebody, regardless of language.”
Pérez has devoted her work to promoting human rights and dignity around the globe.
