An advantage of this week for education Esperanza, a group of volunteer without an Office or a street address Fund awarded 18 scholarships to immigrants in D.C., Maryland and Virginia since 2009, it was not to mention the dream Act or chances slim passage.
Instead of this, the night was improvised in American life - and education against winds and tides roads.
"Flamenco is an improvised art," said Grigory "Grisha" Goryachev, a master of the Russian flamenco guitar before launching into a set of songs in the majestic lobby of the Carnegie Institute.
Goryachev, now 33, was a child prodigy began his guitar on the scenes in Moscow at the age of 9 years, but was refused entry to the elite Soviet music conservatories because flamenco was deemed "too exotic" style. He was admitted later to United States with visa "extraordinary ability" in 1997 and completed his studies at the New England Conservatory of Music.
Flamenco is the music of the wandering traveller, less nation to a nation. Born in Spain 16th century, it was the rebellious child of four cultures: the Moor, the Andalusians, Jews and Gypsies.
Listens raptly to the crowd of 200 was Felipe Hernandez, 24, who recently received an Esperanza Fellowship for study in the Northern Virginia Community College. It was at the top of his class in his native Colombia when he came in Virginia to join his father, who had been seriously injured in a construction site and was unable to support the family. Felipe got a job as a dishwasher, Cook and eventually Manager of kitchen, at a restaurant in Centreville. It fits into an alternative secondary school and began studying information and air conditioning technology.
Its ultimate goal - a degree in mechanical engineering - could take six years. "I don't care how long it takes,", he said. "I just want to study." He works full-time week hanging dry wall; on weekends, it sells phones store sales at retail that classes are the night.
$5,000 Or $10,000 price of Esperanza is designed to make a dent in the obligations of many students immigrants face so that they are able to investigate.
"Many of these students have no time to construct their extracurricular resume because they work 50 hours a week in the family restaurant," said Alvaro Bedoya, 28, one of the co-founders of Esperanza.
Esperanza was created by a group of young professionals from D.C. who recognized the role played by education in their own lives. Many sons and daughters of immigrants, are all volunteers and they take advantage of their extensive professional networks - collect over $ 125,000 over two years – to finance students immigrants in the GOL, replacement of secondary schools and other places of transition programs.
"I never had to grow because my parents are immigrants from Hong Kong and Taiwan, made sacrifices which allowed me to study great opportunities", said Alexander Lin, 29, the Secretary of the Board the Esperanza Fund. "They have created a home environment where study everything." I could stay at home, I could be in the band.
So far, scholarships have been attributed to El El Salvador, Guinea Bolivia Honduras, Viet Nam, China, students at the Mexico and India as well as the Colombia.
At the end of the delivery, Goryachev made homage to his Spanish influences. "Nobody plays their concert," he said, referring to legends of Mario Escudero, Ernesto Lecuona and Paco de Lucia, flamenco songs he had listened as a boy. "This is why I play, because I want the music to be alive."
It is not clear as Goryachev struck strings and deep melodies of concentration, he played flamenco and flamenco played him. His guitar speaks Russian, Spanish, California. The boy in St. Petersburg, who now lives in San Jose played stole the Spain and refined style to Boston - a mobile feast of culture.
For the finale, he played "However Adaluza - Bulerias," by Saint Lucia - a fitting choice. Saint Lucia was his childhood Idol, and eventually he recommended for visa which enabled him to study at the United States. Today he is recognized as one of the few musicians in the world to have mastered the flamenco and classical guitar.
"It was my family tradition to get a good education" Goryachev said after the performance, surrounded by students. "" So I came here".
For more information about the Education Fund Esperanza and watch a clip of Goryachev flamenco guitar, visit www.esperanzafund.org/grisha
Photography: Mauricio EventosVIPpass.com Cuevas
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