Instituto de Música Juan Morel Campos

Instituto de Música Juan Morel Campos
Address
Calle Salud[1]
Ponce, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico 00731
Information
School type Specialized musical arts school
Established 1947
Founded 1947
Opened 1948
Faculty 29[2]
Grades 4–12
Language Spanish
Area Ponce Historic Zone
Website Instituto de Música Juan Morel Campos

Instituto de Música Juan Morel Campos (English: Juan Morel Campos Music Institute), formerly known as Escuela Libre de Música de Ponce (English: Ponce Free School of Music), is a musical arts institution in Ponce, Puerto Rico. It is an institution of the Ponce Municipal Government.[3][4] Its first director was Librado Net Pérez.[5]

History

The first site of the Institute at Salud and Cristina streets

The school was founded in 1947 under the municipal administration of Mayor Andrés Grillasca Salas as the Escuela Libre de Música de Ponce (Ponce Free School of Music).[6]

Location

The school's first location was at the structure previously occupied by the Liceo de Ponce (Liceo Ponceño), an early 20th-century girls-only school on the northwest corner of Salud and Cristina streets.[7][8]

In 1977 the name Escuela Libre de Música de Ponce name was changed to Escuela Libre de Música Juan Morel Campos, after the Ponce composer and conductor.[9][10] Enrollment growth and increased school offerings resulted in the school expanding its headquarters. In 2008, the school expanded by converting an adjacent fire station at Cristina and Mayor Cantera streets into space with additional classrooms, new administrative offices and an amphitheater.[9]

The former location of the Ponce Region Fire Corps on the southeast corner of Cristina and Mayor Cantera streets thus became the school's new main quarters.[11][12] The new site at Cristina and Cantera streets had been the former location of the Puerto Rico Firefighters Corps. Ponce Municipal decree #40 (2012-2013) re-established that the correct name of the institution is Instituto de Música Juan Morel Campos.[13] The remodeling of the fire corps building into a structure suitable for school training preserved the mosaic mural titled "La Abnegacion" (Selflessness) by Rafael Ríos Rey.[14] The new location sits across from Teatro La Perla.

Construction and appearance

The Institute's first structure, at the northwest corner of Cristina and Salud streets, was built in the Art Deco style. The new building at the southwest corner of Cristina and Mayor Cantera streets was built in recto-linear fashion following modern architectural style. The front yard of the Institute at Calle Cristina contains the only olive tree planted in Puerto Rico.[15] This building had been the former location of the Ponce regional headquarters of the Bomberos de Puerto Rico.

Organizations

The Institute has several musical organizations. Among them are Coro de Niños (Children's Choir) and Coro Juvenil (Youth Choir), both directed by music professor María Asunción Ondarra Fombellida.[16] It also has a Conjunto de Tiples (Treble Ensemble), led by professor Héctor Hernández.[17] There is also a Conjunto de Cuerdas Punteadas (Plucked Strings Ensemble).[18] In addition there is an Orquesta Sinfonica Juvenil (Youth Symphony Orchestra), Banda Juvenil (Youth Band), Conjunto de Metales (Metal Ensemble), Conjunto de Cañas (Reeds Ensemble), Conjunto de Percusion (Percussion Ensemble), and Conjunto de Acordeones (Accordion Ensemble).[4]

Accolades

Its symphony orchestra received a Senate Resolution from the Puerto Rico Senate in 2010.[3]

Notable alumni

See also

References

  1. ↑ De la Muerte Hasta a Vida. El Visitante: Prensa Catolica para la Paz. Ponce, Puerto Rico.
  2. ↑ Juan Campos Morel Escuela Libre De Musica. Retrieved 6 February 2014.
  3. 1 2 Resolucion del Senado Numero 1281. 26 April 2010.
  4. 1 2 Instituto de Música Juan Morel Campos.
  5. ↑ Librado Net: Del pentagrama al pincel. Lizette Cabrera Salcedo. Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico. Ponce, Puerto Rico. May 1998.
  6. ↑ Free School of Music.
  7. ↑ Escuela Libre de Musica.
  8. ↑ Luis Fortuño Janeiro. Album Histórico de Puerto Rico (1692-1963). Page 374. Ponce, Puerto Rico: Imprenta Fortuño. 1963. Retrieved 21 March 2012.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 Juan Morel Campos Music Institute.
  10. ↑ There is a Escuela de Musica located at Calle Lolita Tizol at the location of the old Spanish Barracks which is an entity different from Instituto de Musica Juan Morel Campos and which operates under the direction of the Puerto Rico Department of Education
  11. ↑ Pedro Malavet Vega en la Peña Musical.
  12. ↑ Conversatorio de la danza en la Peña Musical de Ponce. El Sur a la Vista. Ponce, Puerto Rico. 14 May 2010. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
  13. ↑ Concierto en Villalba de la orquesta sinfónica juvenil de Escuela Libre de Música de Ponce. Villaba Online. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
  14. ↑ Plaza Cacique Agüeybaná el bravo e Instituto de Música Juan Morel Campos.
  15. ↑ Recreacion. Oficina de Fomento Turístico. Municipio Autónomo de Ponce. 7 September 2009. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
  16. ↑ Concierto de Navidad y estampas típicas en Plaza Las Delicias en Ponce. WORA-TV. 14 December 2013. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
  17. ↑ Comunicado de Prensa. Noticias Sur P.R. 7 September 2012.
  18. ↑ Presentan Poemario “El Paso de Una Hoja Seca” de María del Rosario “Cuqui” Caraballo. Noticias Sur P.R. 31 July 2012. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
  19. ↑ Yovianna Garcia. Berta Rojas
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