MAESTRO GEORGE PRADO has been a bassist, band leader and educator for more than 40 years in San Antonio. Born here in 1942, he joined the U.S. Army after high school as part of the band stationed in France during the early 1960s. Relocating to Los Angeles in the mid 1960s, George studied music atContinue Reading →

DR. AARON ELLINGTON PRADO began classical piano study at age 7 and added formal jazz study in high school, attending the prestigious Stanford Jazz Workshop where faculty included masters like McCoy Tyner, Art Farmer, and Ray Brown. As an undergraduate at Columbia University in New York City, Prado became heavily involved at WKCR 89.9FM, Columbia’sContinue Reading →

Since 1992, actor-playwright-musician José Rubén De León has created and performed one-man dramas – Mark’s Gospel: A Drama of Hope; St. Francis of Assisi: A Musical; and El Encuentro: Juan Diego and the Virgen de Guadalupe. LORCA, a one-man drama based on the life and work of Spain’s best-known poet, Federico García Lorca, received criticalContinue Reading →