American Theatre and the Classical Theatre of Harlem current ICONS, co-produced with Venus Radio Theatre.
ICONS is a podcast sequence of private monologues primarily based on figures from the Harlem Renaissance, curated and directed by CTH’s literary director, Shawn Rene Graham, and developed by the Classical Theatre of Harlem in partnership with Venus Radio Theater. The first season of ICONS targeted on 5 Black ladies whose inventive work was central to the colourful Harlem Renaissance. The second season focuses on Hispanic and Latinx voices. ICONS 2: El Barrio Lives! explores the wealthy historical past of East Harle by commissioning 4 writers of Latinx descent to breathe life into lesser recognized figures from Latin America and the Caribbean, whose impression on the Harlem neighborhood from the early a part of the twentieth century resonates at this time.
This episode: Tremendous Barretto by Nelson Diaz-Marcano, carried out by Hiram Delgado, which imagines an interview with the Puerto Rican percussionist and bandleader of the Sixties.
Raymundo “Ray” Barretto Pagán (April 29, 1929-Feb. 17, 2006) was an American percussionist and bandleader of Puerto Rican descent. All through his profession as a percussionist, he performed all kinds of Latin music types, in addition to Latin jazz. His first hit, “El Watusi,” was recorded by his Charanga Moderna in 1962, turning into essentially the most profitable pachanga track in the US. Within the late ’60s, Barretto turned one of many main exponents of boogaloo and what would later be often known as salsa. A grasp of the descarga (improvised jam session), Barretto was a long-time member of the Fania All-Stars. His success continued into the Nineteen Seventies with songs comparable to “Cocinando” and “Indestructible.” His final album for Fania Information, Soy dichoso, was launched in 1990. He then fashioned the New World Spirit jazz ensemble and continued to tour and report till his dying in 2006.
Nelson Diaz-Marcano is a Puerto Rican NYC-based theatremaker, advocate, and neighborhood chief. His performs have been developed by Pipeline Theatre Firm, Clubbed Thumb, The Lark, Imaginative and prescient Latino Theater Firm, The Orchard Challenge, The William Inge Theatre Pageant, Classical Theatre of Harlem, and The Parsnip Ship amongst others. He at the moment serves because the literary director of the Latinx Playwright Circle.
Hiram Delgado is a Puerto Rican and Cuban actor and author. He studied appearing on the College of Puerto Rico and received his MFA at New York College’s Graduate Appearing program. He’s a member of SOCIETY Theatre Firm. He has appeared on TV and movie and in varied productions on and off- Broadway. He at the moment resides in Queens.
ICONS was tailored, produced, and edited for Audio Theater by Eric Emma and options sound design and mixing by Andy Stein. Take heed to season certainly one of ICONS: Harlem Renaissance in Movement on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
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