Shoes for the Santo Niño – An Opera for Children: Cultural Collaboration or Collision? Who’s story is it anyway? Regina Carlow, The University of New Mexico, USA

My introduction to New Mexico

New Mexico

Population Statistics

More sheep and cows than people

Red or Green?

If you are uncertain, ask for Christmas

My questions What is the nature of the cultural ownership of the story? Are there rules in interpretation of a beloved folktale? What voice do the cultural stakeholders have in the project? When does collaboration become collision?

The formula The Children The Story The Music The Culture

JOHN DONALD ROBB

Robb Musical Trust Archives

Children’s singing games allow a more profound insight than anything else into the primeval age of folk music. Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song. ….

Chimayo, NM Today

The Holy Boy

Santo Nino and Children’s Shoes

Every Child Who Wishes to Sing is Welcome

Debut Performance of UNM Children’s Chorus 2007 (21 children) Laughing Song by John Helgen, Text by Robert Blake