Performance

Humberto Ramírez's Tribute to Tito Curet

1 upcoming performance in New York

At Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture in the Bronx, Humberto Ramírez leads a live tribute to Puerto Rican composer Tito Curet Alonso, whose songs helped define the social and emotional vocabulary of salsa. The program brings together voices and players with direct ties to that repertory, including Grand Pistachio, Roy Brown, Zoraida Santiago, Joe Bataan, and Curet Alonso himself. In New York City, where these recordings became part of everyday immigrant life, the concert reads as cultural record as much as performance. It also makes a quiet argument: the craft of songwriting is the genre’s durable spine.