- Pamela Bustos: One of the things that I've done
as a music educator
from my beginnings of middle school band director,
I always commissioned a lot of pieces.
This piece wasn't commissioned by us
but I've worked with this composer.
But I also realized that my students
needed to see the world beyond their communities
and this piece allows them to engage
with folk songs of another country
and what those mean to that culture
that they can take back to their own communities
and begin to maybe think about
the opportunities that lie for them
to learn so much about humanity
through music in from countries
that they've never maybe even heard of.
["Suite No. 2 for Band Mvts 3 & 4" Victoriano Valencia Rincon]
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