Video

El Corrido de Anza

Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail

Description

El Corrido de Anza was written by Los Cenzontles founder and Executive Director, Eugene Rodriguez, and lyricist Gilberto Gutierrez Silva. A corrido is a traditional Mexican narrative ballad with a particular structure. This corrido consists of 45, four-line stanzas, that tell an inspiring historical portrait of the Anza expedition from its start in Mexico’s Sonoran Desert to its final destination, the founding of the San Francisco Presidio.

Duration

10 minutes, 41 seconds

Credit

NPS / Los Cenzontles, Armando Aparicio (videographer)

Date Created

04/08/2020

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