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Ruben Cobos, recorder, 1949

 File — Box: 3, CD: 238

Scope and Contents

Adolfo Castillo, Alameda, NM. (Some of CD 238 repeated in CD 239). (Alabados, sixteen, poor recording, apparently continued from another recording, CD 239?) 1. Alabados, Part II? (song, continued, Come to adore the sweet blood of Christ in the temple of God); 2. San Ignacio de Loyola (conquistas fraternidades, song, St. Ignatius of Loyola); 3. Por la orilla de un arroyo (song, religious, by the edge of a ditch, arroyo, Virgin of Guadalupe, pastoral apparition, miracle, blessing); 4. El miercoles de ceniza, (song, Ash Wednesday, Lent, Jesus, God selected him to do His will, rise in forty days); 5. Adios acompaniamento (song, deseased man says goodbye to all, valerio, funeral, death, muerte); 6. Por la calle mas amarga pasearon a mi Jesus (song, they took Jesus down most bitter path, betrayed, I cry, Holy Mother Mary, pure Virgin with San Juan Bautista, passion of Christ); 7. Santo Nino de Atocha (song, Jesus as a child); 8. Los milagros de San Antonio (song, miracles of St. Anthony, in forty seven nations).

Unknown, (possibly Domucindo Saenz, b. June 1876, age 73?). 1. Del siervo al Santo Nino (song, religious, servant of Jesus as a child, a rich man is condemned for a loss of faith, limosna, donation).

Adolfo Castillo, Alameda, NM. 1 Datos personales (born July 3, 1876, 73 years old). 2. Nuestro senor de Esquipulas, Santuario de Chimayo (un cuando, song, image of black Christ crucified, Holy Trinity) 3. Entriega de novios (here the speaker breaks to announce something, he is cut off but I know he says por Casimiro Lujan, wedding song. Teach me wisdom and memory to deliver the couple to marriage in the name of the godparents).

Jose Pena, b. 1890, Las Lagunitas, NM and Meliton Lovato, b. 1900, Cuba, NM. 1. Entriega de novios (playing guitar, violin and singing, entrega, at the wedding of Toribio Martinez to Romie Pena, Romi Pena, August 2, marriage, glory, deliverance); 2. (Rhyming poetic verse recited by Cobos and either Jose or Meliton, uncertain, people in the room clapping hands, song with violin instrumental between each stanza. Shining star of the sea I don't forget you, my soul is present. You are thin and tall like a nail, I love you how you are. You anger with lemons, I anguish. You grow like a wheat plant, I predict I will marry you. Absence is the air to the fire of love, burn).

Carmel Griego and Jacobo Armenta Jr., from Los Griegos, NM, in North Valley, Albuquerque. Carmelita Griego. 1. Cuadrilla de Las Tres Hermanas (collaboration, group of three sisters, en partes, played out in seven parts and eight es un cutillo,violin and guitar instrumental, people clap and yell in background); 2. Una cuna (lullaby, instrumental, violin and guitar); 3. Una cuna (lullaby, instrumental, Griego on violin and Cobos on guitar).

Dates

  • 1949

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English, Spanish

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 13 boxes (12.25 cu. ft.)

Creator

Repository Details

Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository

Contact:
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451