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James Baker

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Sep 30, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · James Baker

    Connecting Peru and Texas through the work of Miguel Harth-Bedoya (opens the original)

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    When the Peruvian musician and conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya was hired as Music Director of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra (FWSO) in the year 2000, it meant a big change for that orchestra. Harth-Bedoya was ambitious, not only for his own career, but for the success of the FWSO. The orchestra was already well known for its work with the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, but now they found themselves making recordings, albeit mostly for their own label, and largely music by Latin Am

  2. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · James Baker

    Pairing conductors and orchestras, south and north (opens the original)

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    The 20 episodes of Momentos Musicales this season are giving us opportunity to track music and musicians from throughout Pan America as they come and go, crossing borders, at times with difficulty, and other times smooth as ice. Thankfully, the music has pretty much free flowed, as was illustrated previously when we learned of La Cadéna de las Americas, an extensive network of shortwave radio signals which helped settle listeners throughout the tribulations of World War II. Today, we mix and mat

  3. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · James Baker

    Latin music comes full circle in New York (opens the original)

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    When the Orquesta Filarmonica de la Ciudad de Mexico rolled out in September, 1978, it was very generously underwritten, largely through the support of Mexico's First Lady, Madam Carmen Romano Portillo. When I first joined the OFCM in 1981, Jose Lopez Portillo was in the final year of his presidency. Madam Portillo was still heavily invested in the OFCM and would often attend the orchestra's concerts. In the orchestra's first season, interest was at a peak, especially during the state visit of U

  4. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · James Baker

    'La Cadena' turned off the mics in 1948 (opens the original)

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    Today we arrive at the final broadcast of our mini-series on La Cadena de las Américas, an amalgam of short wave and long wave radio which provided both news and entertainment for listeners over a range of Alaska to Tierra del Fuego at the tip of Argentina. La Cadena played a vital role in the ultimate defeat of Nazism in World War II. When William Paley, the head of broadcasting at CBS, and Edmund Chester, the broadcaster chosen to head La Cadena, designed the network's scheduling, the eight an

  5. Article · Sep 22, 2026 · James Baker

    Courting love, and a new radio network (opens the original)

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    In the previous episode of Momentos Musicales, I introduced you to Edmund Chester, one of the chief architects of La Cadena de las Américas, a radio chain networked together through shortwaves and Pan American cooperations. Edmund Chester was described in a book written by his youngest daughter, Carolyn Chester, as the Kentucky Pan American, a perfect description for one who would successfully navigate support and cooperation among over one hundred radio stations in the Americas – this at a time

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