Music in Honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe
To help orphans in Latin America
Aim of the NRW Coro Latino’s Second
CD Project
With the support of Msgr. Dr. Peter von Steinitz, for over ten years, Mexicans and Latin Americans in Cologne and North Rhine-Westfalia, Germany have celebrated a Mass on December 12th to honor Our Lady of Guadalupe. In 2003 Coro Latino made its first recording to benefit Deutsche Welthungerhilfe. After its success, the group decided to make a second recording with its new, ever-expanding repertoire to benefit another organization, Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos (NPH), Spanish for “Our Little Brothers and Sisters,” whose mission is to minister to orphans. Convinced of its moral duty to support orphans deprived of a family life, Coro Latino considers its participation in the second recording a humanitarian and Christian witness to the world.
In this recording, Coro Latino has combined Latin American and Classical music to celebrate as well as promote the unity and understanding between European and Latin American cultures. To this end, Coro Latino has given special consideration to Our Lady of Guadalupe, known to Catholics as the Patroness of the Americas, Refuge of sinners, and Mother of all Christians in Europe and Latin America.
We thank Mr. Werner M. Dornscheidt, honorary consul of Mexico in Düsseldorf, for his financial support to produce this CD and also your support buying this CD.
Organization and conducted by: Guillermo León
Recording participants:
Solists
Alicia León Lomelí / sopran, Nadia Meroni / mezzosoprano, Guillermo León / tenor-baritoner, Daniel Manrique Smith / flute, Manuel Estrada / guitar
Instruments
Monica Drunday, Alicia León Lomelí, Bertha Vera Wahrmann / guitars, Stephan Pridik / organ, piano, Peter Edel / piano, guitar, percussion, Peter Protschka, Daniel Breidenbach / trumpets, Veronika Wahrmann, Svenja Edel / violins
Choir members of the Coro Latino NRW
Moraima Álvarez, Walteiro Andrade, Emma Bararán, Erika Dübe, Michaela Dübe, Monica Drunday, Manuel Estrada, Graciela Heidenreich, Sigrid-M. Hennemann, María Höfer, Elke Hoffmann, Guillermo León, Alicia León Lomelí, Debora Manriquez Charis, Ronald Ponsch, Susana Sanchez, Consuelo Tapia, Janneth Taipe, Gaby Wachenfeld, Bertha Vera Wahrmann, Nora Muñoz de Wirtz.
Recorded by: Tonstudio Georg Bongartz, Cologne, Germany
Father Wasson surrounded by his children back in 1975
In 1954, a boy was arrested for stealing from the poor box of a small church in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico. The young priest in charge, Father William Wasson of the United States, was unwilling to press charges against this “thief.” Instead, he asked for custody of the boy. One week later, the judge sent him eight more homeless boys. By year’s end, 32 boys were in residence and Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos (NPH), Spanish for “Our Little Brothers and Sisters,” was born.
Over 15,000 children have grown up in the NPH family, which now operates homes in eight additional countries: Honduras, Haiti, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, the Dominican Republic Peru and Bolivia. Today, over 3.500 children are being cared for in a loving, secure environment.
http://www.nphusa.org/s/769/start.aspx
Music: Ave Maria-Johannes Bach (1685-1750) Charles Gounod (1818-1893)
Solist-Alicia León Lomelí - Orgelbegleitung Stephan Pridik
