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Chilean English as a Mother Tongue. By Marco Katz Montiel Non fiction My story begins in New York City, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan before high rentsMy story begins in New York City, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan before high rentsforced us to leave. [As I extemporize this first paragraph, I play segments of the song “Misirlou”on a muted trombone between sentences.4] As a young musician, I spent many years performingwith African American soul bands, Big Bands, Jazz Ensembles, Puerto Rican salsa bands, Cubanconjuntos, Colombian cumbia bands, Brass Quintets, Chamber Orchestras, Symphony Orchestras. [. . .] |
