Conjunto Heritage Taller co-founder Rodolfo “Rudy” Lopez died Sept. 23 at age 83, leaving behind a rich musical and educational legacy.
Rodolfo Santiago Lopez, co-founder of the Conjunto Heritage Taller, died last month at the age of 83.Rodolfo Santiago “Rudy” Lopez only took up learning to play an instrument at age 50, after retiring from a career in the U.S. Air Force and civil service. But as co-founder ofLopez died Sept.
Rodriguez said students of the program have gone on to form their own bands and several have become music instructors in other programs. “They’re out playing in the community, and that’s certainly something we’ve been very proud to see.” Robert Casillas was 8 years old when he met Lopez while both were taking music classes in the late 1990s at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center. When it came time for a student presentation, Casillas’ teacherThey found themselves in demand and formed the duo Dos Generaciones, releasing an album and performing in San Antonio, Austin, Houston, the Rio Grande Valley and throughout Texas, spreading the intergenerational conjunto gospel.But music was also about family for Lopez.
“He would take his bajo all over the world, he traveled everywhere. He would say that music has no ethnicity,” she said. “You combine these two instruments,” Spicer said of the traditional conjunto instrumentation accordion and bajo sexto, “and you can touch a lot of different cultures.”
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