William ortiz medina biography of albert

Dr. Ortiz was Assistant Director of Black Mountain College II/SUNY Buffalo, where he also taught composition and music theory and was active in Latino community affairs, giving workshops and organizing concerts on behalf of Hispanic students in the United States.

Professor Carlos Gil has written:
“The music of William Ortiz could be called of urgency… the need to find his roots (we most remember Ortiz’ New York background), and the need to create his own personal, particular and authentic form of artistic manifestation… Valiantly and decisively he has launched himself to make music.

And this often painful industry has exercised its imminently artistic function: the miracle of the transformation of reality… If you would ask me for a concrete image of the musical work of William Ortiz I would have to say: the Nuyorican mural.”
Uruguayan composer and musicologist Coriún Aharonián writes:
“Curiously there is a parallel current in his work, wher