City of Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt, 10 Sep 2020

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From YouTube: City Hall Sessions - Episode 7 - Angelica Pereira

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In City Hall Sessions, Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt hosts artists in his office for a concert to highlight the musical talent coming into and coming from OKC. We had the pleasure of hosting a performance by Angelica Pereira recently, taped September 10, 2020.

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Hi, I'm david holt, the mayor of oklahoma city, welcome back to city hall here in oklahoma city for city hall sessions. I'll be honest with you. We had our last city hall sessions a couple weeks before the commencement of the pandemic, and I wasn't sure when we were going to do this again, but a unique situation has presented itself and we decided to add another episode to this hallowed series, and so today we have a very special guest. Angelica podeida has lived here in oklahoma city for the last 12 years, she's, a native of columbia.

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She came here to attend oklahoma city university and then became a member of our philharmonic she's, also been a valued teacher at el sastema and has taught music students here in the city for the last decade.

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Unfortunately, as we stand here today, her visa has expired and it does appear that, though it is not her desire, she's going to have to leave the united states in the coming days. She is a unique talent she played on a grammy-winning album. We want to capture that talent and share it with not only the people of oklahoma city, but the people of the world before she has to depart.

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This is not our desire that she leave, nor is it hers and her absence will leave our city a lesser place. We hope that this can be resolved quickly.

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And maybe by sharing.

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This episode of city hall sessions with you we'll find uh the political will out there to make sure this situation gets resolved and she can turn return.

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Back to this place,.

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That she now calls home oklahoma city. I now.

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To you and helicopter.

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Okay, we are going to be playing first francis. I want to introduce first the person that is accompanying me today. This is my dear dear friend, francisco venegas he's also a native from colombia and he's also a teacher with me out of system oklahoma.

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We play together colombian music, that's our passion um and, of course, I'm a classically trained musician, but I am blessed to have my colombian fellow here that we can keep our colombian roots and share it uh overseas in the united states and share our culture and be proud to be colombians.

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um We're going to play first at this pasillo, it's a colombian, traditional rhythm, fast, fast, paced rhythm and, like we hope you enjoy, it's called pata.

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Francisco, do you want to introduce this one.

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Absolutely this next piece is called uri. It's a it's a traditional song and uh just like the piece you've heard before it's also.

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But the facility has that characteristic that it's a faster pace or a slower paced uh genre as well. So this one is a slow paced procedure, it's kind of like a love song and very, uh very small short valve balance. So this.

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Okay, our next piece is a different um type of genre. Colombian giant rice called bamboo.

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This one is name is chambu and it's gonna have a little introduction um that is kind of a classical and free like uh cantabile and like sort of a cadenza free motion and then we're going to start moving a little bit with the rhythm of the.

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Thank you and the last piece that we have today for you, it's my very favorite and if I may take a second to say this, um this piece is very special because um it was probably the first piece that I learned by heart, like um you are always as a conservatory trained classical musician, to have your music in front of you and to read and play as perfect as you can.

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Every single note, uh this one was just learned by ear uh my uncle political uncle, the the the husband of my aunt, um uh I called my uncle. uh He played colombian music around the house and he played guitar and he was just like playing this one all the time, so I just just heard it so much that it just stuck in my head- and I remember my grandmother passed away and my grandpa and my family just being around him just listening to this music that he played and just being so very special to us.

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So every time that I play this piece, it's just. I keep home what I called home back then with me in my heart, through music, and I want to share being in this country.

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um It's been a blessing that is, has allowed me to to share my culture and- and I I carry that flag and I hope to continue carrying the flag in this country um as a as better as good as.

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Can through what I can do with my art and with with the music from from our culture, so the this is is what would that translate? I.

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Think it's the errors of my land.

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The heirs of my land, so even the name, is kind of patriotic that way. So here we.

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So, thank you. Thank you. Thank you all very much. Thank you.