The Children of Sanchez was based on a real family in Mexico City and was made into a movie with Anthony Quinn as Sanchez. Its a rough movie to watch and the book is a good but depressing. It gives you an idea how mexicans in the ghetto lived in the 40s and 50s.
I remember loving the music wanting to find the movie and searching years to find a copy of it... I wish I had never seen the movie... Absolutely horrible, boring beyond compare. While I still love the music it really doesn't fit the movie at all, the music lifts your spirits the movie just drives a knife through your soul. I suggest you give up trying to find the book there is a good chance it will be as god awful as the movie.
@trueinulover12 Me too! I played this in my fanfare orchestra 2 years ago. But before that, in 1999 when I was 7 years old I heard it on TV. Because my grandmother passed away not so long after that time the song reminded me to her. When we played it in our orchestra for the first time, after a long time not listening to the song, I was reminded to her again.
An excellent play of Chuk's favorite tune, mixed along with the itro or whatever is the mix . Indeed a very difficult to fiddle with kind of song , that only Chuck new how to perform. It still sounds nice and very wealthy if i may use the term , it always is nice to listen to big bands , beautifull in all aspects.
Who ever put that sleep lullaby in the middel desirves punishment, its a pain in the a*s to play in an orchastra. But everything surrouding that is great
Yeah.. sax-solo is GREAT... but that high #F impossible ;) They say that practice makes perfect, but still, in practice I play it perfectly, but when preforming...
