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Glaisma Peréz Silva and Victor Papo Sterling Performance, 1998

PerformerPerformed by Glaisma Pérez Silva (Puerto Rican)

PerformerPerformed by Victor M. Sterling (Puerto Rican)

Date1998 July 2

Mediumreformatted digital file from audio cassette

DimensionsDuration (side 1): 48 Minutes, 8 Seconds Duration (side 2): 4 Minutes, 3 Seconds Duration (total runtime): 52 Minutes, 16 Seconds

ClassificationsInformation Artifacts

Credit LineConnecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program collections

CopyrightIn Copyright

Object number2015.196.685a-d

DescriptionAudio cassette tape field recording of Glaisma Peréz Silva and Papo Sterling performing Puerto Rican music and poetry at Vito's on the Park in Hartford, Connecticut on July 2, 1998.

NotesBiographical Note: Glaisma Pérez Silva is a Puerto Rican educator, professor, and Spanish-language poet who held teaching and administrative positions in the Hartford area from 1988 and now in Massachusetts. She holds a masters degree from the InterAmerican University of Puerto Rico and has received certificates of study and awards from several organizations. She is the founder of Coloquio, a poetry reading group for Latino writers in Spanish, and has been published in a number of anthologies. She produced and hosted the weekly radio program De Mujer a Mujer con Glaisma Pérez Silva on WRYM 840 AM, and a Spanish-language program broadcast on WFCR in Amherst, Massachusetts. Glaisma has been selected as a Master Teaching Artist by the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. She presented her poetry at many events, including some organized by CCHAP, in Hartford and around New England. A dynamic presenter, she often incorporates music into her poetry events.

Biographical Note: Victor M. “Papo” Sterling Duprey is a Puerto Rican musician who specializes in playing percussion especially drums in a variety of Latin rhythms. Born in Santurce, Puerto Rico where he learned to play among that area’s legendary musicians, he lived in California and New York City where he worked with renowned Cuban and Puerto Rican musicians and bands including Puntilla, and the Tito Puente Latin Jazz Ensemble, performing and touring widely. Papo is skilled on a wide variety of drums – timbales, bongos, bata, fundamento, etc. He later settled in the Hartford, Connecticut area in the mid-1990s, taught at Smith College in the dance department for a number of years, and was a radio producer for WRYM in Hartford. Papo formed and led the “Sabor A Timba” Afro-Caribbean Latin Jazz Group, and he sits in with jazz and bomba groups around Connecticut. He served as one of the project advisors for CCHAP’s exhibit project “Mano a Mano: Puerto Rican Traditional Arts From Island To City,” along with his then-wife Glaisma Pérez Silva with who he performed music and poetry in the 1990s.

Additional materials exist in the CCHAP archive for these artists.

Cataloging Note: This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services MA-245929-OMS-20.

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