MS 681
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Collection Summary | |
| Creator: | Camacho, Maria Beatrice Medina |
| Collection Name: | Carmen Celia Beltrán music, |
| Inclusive Dates: | circa 1930s |
| Physical Description: | 0.25 Linear Feet |
| Abstract: | This collection includes eight music sheets and a program related to Carmen Celia Beltrán. These items were donated at the Community Digitization Day 2017. Related digital materials can be found here: Preserving Family Memories and Building Community Archives |
| Collection Number: | MS 681 |
| Language: | Materials are in English and Spanish. |
| Repository: |
University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections University of Arizona PO Box 210055 Tucson, AZ 85721-0055 Phone: 520-621-6423 Fax: 520-621-9733 URL: http://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/ E-Mail: LBRY-askspcoll@email.arizona.edu |
Carmen Celia Beltrán (February 19, 1905 – May 26, 2002) was a Mexican American writer of poetry, plays, essays and radio and religious dramas. She was born in Durango, Mexico to a family of muscicians. Her mother, Guadalupe, played mandolin. All of her siblings played instruments and her father, a Major in the military band of Mexican President Porfirio Diaz, inspired his children to take up music as well. During the Mexican Revolution, due to her father's political connections, the family decided to leave the city and fleed to the mountains. Beltrán was hidden with Carmelite nuns and then traveled with the family to the United States.
Beltrán moved to Tucson between 1938 and 1942 due to respiratory problems where she became active in the Mexican-American community. She wrote articles for the Spanish newspaper El Tucsonense, worked on a weekly radio program called "Theatre of the Air," and performed songs at the Holy Family Church. She would later write for Tucson Daily Reporter and La Voz. She would later create México Ayer Y Hoy, a drama performance that represented the history of Aztec, colonial, and independent Mexico. The drama was first performed at Tucson High School in 1952 but would later be performed at other venues. She was awarded the Humanitarian Award from the Mexican American Unity Council for the play and her community activities and the City of Tucson's Amistad Award for her work with KUAT. She was awarded a César Award and in 1992 the Arizona Historical Society founded the Carmen Celiá Beltrán Hispanic Theatre Archives.
Beltrán passed May 26, 2002 from breast cancer.
This collection includes eight music sheets and a program related to Carmen Celia Beltrán. These items were donated at the Community Digitization Day 2017. Related digital materials can be found here: Preserving Family Memories and Building Community Archives
There are no restrictions on this collection.
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Carmen Celia Beltrán music (MS 681). Special Collections, University of Arizona Libraries
Processed in Michelle Nicole Boyer-Kelly in 2019.
| Series I: Sheet music and programs, circa 1930s | |||||||||||
| Scope and Contents | |||||||||||
| This series includes one program and eight pieces of sheet music relating to and/or authored by Carmen Celia Beltrán. Items are arranged alphabetically by title. | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | "Amor" sheet music, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | "Beautiful Blue Danube Waltz", piano solo by Strauss, 1933 | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | "El Manton de Manila" sheet music, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | "El Tulipan" Mexican song, Music by Eduardo L. Martinez, Lyric by Carmen C. Beltrán, 1933 | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | "La Tierra del Sol" sheet music, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | "Morena Mia" by Vicente Beltrán, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | "Novillero" sheet music, 1935 | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | "Un Beso entre Suspiros" for Vicente and Carmen Celia Beltrán, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | "Velada literario musical en honor de Carmen Celia Beltrán" program, April 27, 1984 | |||||||||