[applause]
- Cuando desde el momento
que epmiezo a caminar en el senario,
siento que es mi momento en el mundo...
- For orchestra conductor
Paula Madrigal,
music grounds her.
- Que es mi espacio en el mundo y yo me siento feliz
[♪♪]
- In every way,
all the time.
- Me siento llena.
Me siento plena
[♪♪ - symphony performs]
[♪♪- squeaky violin]
- Even at times like this.
Este dedito y este son amigos.
Cuando veo
a un nino
aprender musica, mi corazon se llena es buena
When I see a little child
learn the music,
my hearts get so happy.
(laughs)
[♪♪]
Yo creo que si
ellos aprenden
algo de esa calidad
ellos entienden
que ellos merecen cosas asi.
[Applause]
- Originally
from Guadalajara,
Mexico,
Madrigal moved
to the United States
in 2014 after studying
cello and conducting
at the
Universidad Autónoma,
in Guadalajara.
She believes
her connection
to music began
at the very beginning
of her life.
-I think, like
all humans, it starts
the moment
that we are born,
when
we do our first yell. Ahhhh!
That's the first moment
where I probably listen
something myself (yells)
and I fall in love
with my voice.
(Laughs)
- Now
Madrigal is
the Music Director
of the nonprofit
Orquesta Northwest.
Their goal:
to empower
the next generation
of aspiring musicians,
especially those
in the Latino community.
- Por que ellos se sen como yo
y eso llena mi corazon.
Yo creo que todos los seres humanos,
merecen tener la experienca
de aprenderia y vivir
porque se un nivel artistico y intelectual un poco mas alto que la musica que a veces escuchamos popular.
y intelectual
un poco mas alto que la musica
que a veces escuchamos popular.
- You know,
you never heard of,
like a famous
violinist who's Mexican.
But I think it's
just a way to show,
especially when
I'm playing music, that,
Yes, I'm...
This is my heritage.
This is where I am from.
This is my background.
That's kind of showing
that we can do
that, too.
- For Madrigal
and Orquesta Northwest,
what's worse
than not hearing
the music,
is not having access
to it.
-Todos esos jovenes
reciben un instrumento gratuito.
Ellos no paga nada
por el instrumento o por las clases.
por las classes.
[♪♪]
Repite.
- What we want
to try to avoid
is having young people
who have that drive
and that talent,
and don't have
the opportunity
to fulfill it,
to see where
it could take them.
[♪♪ - violin music]
- I had
lessons when
I was younger,
but they were expensive
and I couldn't
really keep going.
But then, like
joining Orchestra
Northwest,
it kind of helped me
grow a lot as a musician
and as like
it gave me more passion
for what I do.
[♪♪]
I’ve played in n orchestras
where I'm the only one
in my demographic
or in my
economic situation.
In this organization,
even though it may
not be as big
or as prestigious,
I feel like
it's a lot more
valuable to me
because I can relate
to the people
I'm playing with.
[♪♪]
- Even more important
is access to technology.
Thanks to a grant
from the City
of Seattle's Information
Technology department,
Orquesta was able
to buy their students
new iPads.
- Pues es la realidad, que ahora estamos viviendo
entonces, ya casi todos los musicos
usan su iPad no ese es como
una oficina.
Si tu no tienes computadora,
pues estas astasado.
[♪♪ - violin solo]
- I don't have a
printer at home
and in the summer
I couldn't
go to get my music
printed at school.
And the iPad
kind of like
gives me that chance
to download
as much music as I want,
whenever I want,
even if I'm just
like, curious
and a piece or anything.
I can just find it.
[♪♪ - violin solo]
- They were all
very fluent
with the technology.
They immediately
knew what to do
with them.
They're researching
the composer
that they're playing
or investigating
different violinists,
different musicians,
and they're
studying music.
They're doing
valuable things
that inspire them.
As far as we can tell.
(Laughs)
- I was gifted this
for nothing.
I didn't have
to pay anything for it.
I've always wanted
an iPad
for playing music,
and when I got one,
I thought they
giving me this tool
to learn.
And,
I want to respect that
- Love of teaching.
Love of learning.
Love of sharing.
Madrigal ties
these threads together
through her
love of music.
- The reason
we're a Latino arts
and culture
organization is
because we have a Latina
Artistic Director
who shapes
the artistic vision
of everything,
and it's special
because of that.
(Sings - “La la la...”)
- It's really cool
that she thought
to create something
like this
for people
of the same heritage
as her
I want to keep it
through my life
because it's something
that makes me happy.
[♪♪ - Orchestra plays]
Hay muchas cosas ahorita
que estan atacando
quizas la comunidad latina
y es muy importante nosotros nos unamos.
[♪♪]
Me hace feliz
ver a mi communidad
vivir sin miedo.
[♪♪]
Y en la music, no?
En la musica donde todos ponemos
nuestro corazon
haciendo musica.
es algo.
Eso es algo bello y trae paz.
♪♪
(applause)
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