Miami, Fla., Oct 26, 2007 / 09:34 am
A group of Hispanic Catholic musicians will hold on concert on October 26 in Miami to launch a new CD by Cuban composer Jorge Enrique del Rivero, who died before he could finish the recording.
“Yo quiero ser como El” (“I Want to be Like Him”) is the title of the album that features fifteen new songs by Rivero. The arranger for the project was the renowned Chilean pianist Juan Salazar.
Rivero, who died in August of 2005, said one of his dying wishes was that the CD would be finished. In order to fulfill his dream, a group of artists including Miguel Ángel Guerra, Orlando Ponce, Mary Beyra, the band Mystika, Claribel Mercier, Rafael Herrera, Nora Dieseldorff and David Pedraza, came together to complete the project.
The artwork for the album was based on ideas Rivero had while he was working on the recording. He wanted to use a stained-glass window from the Church of San Luis in Miami, where he served in music ministry for fifteen years, for the album cover. The artwork also includes a painting of Our Lady of Charity, the patroness of Rivero’s native country of Cuba.