For Cinco de Mayo, here’s a lovely performance (at the link below) of Manuel Ponce’s “Estrellita,” with soprano Larisa Martínez and her husband, violinist Joshua Bell. I recently learned the couple will appear at McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton on May 28.

I’m sure Mexican-Americans must dread our Cinco de Mayo celebrations as much as the Irish do our St. Patrick’s Day, but some of us mean well. Keep an eye out for my more ambitious post about composer-conductor-educator Carlos Chávez, coming soon!