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Honduran Jazz

"350 Years of Jazz in Tegucigalpa," (referring to the musicians' combined age). Camilo Corea, Tony Sierra, trumpet player Federico Medina and other Honduran jazz cats.

Gunchei

The Ballet Folclórico Garífuna de Honduras, world-renowned dance theater troupe that represents Garífuna culture all over the world. A first-rate Africanist entity.

The Boor (Chekhov)

Actor Felipe Acosta and Cecilia Pavón in Chekhov's peasant comedy. Live at the now-defunct D'Barro, a performance space with a regional Honduran menu founded by Acosta in the capital city of Tegucigalpa.

Trovasón

Harpist Lis Joosten with multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Mariano Rodríguez play a poem by José Adán Castelar set to their original composition.

RADIO PRODUCER SAMPLES

These works, all self-financed, highlight my years of work at WBAI 99.5 FM (Pacifica Radio), from 1995 to 2001, as an unpaid Independent Producer and On-Air Personality.

For “Latino Journal,” New York’s longest-running English-language radio program with my mentor Santiago Nieves, I produced arts, current events programming, and one unforgettable 5 de Mayo special; for “Our Americas”(Ex. Prod. Mario Murillo), news, cultural and public affairs programming. Its 40 affiliates in the U.S. and Canada, plus short-wave affiliates throughout Latin America, broadcast the documentaries listed here. For “Night Drum” (Executive Producer Brother Shine) I produced “Krochmal’s Corner,” a weekly early-morning segment that pioneered Garífuna and Central American music on New York’s English-speaking airwaves and also broadcast interviews with masters of Afro-Cuban and World music, including specials on David Rudder (Calypso King), Chucho Valdés, Bobby Sanabria and Patato Valdés.

Carlos Andrés Pérez provided me my technical training. (Not that CAP!)

Turning the Wheel: The Struggle for Peace in El Salvador Today 2-part radio documentary recorded, written and engineered by Walter Krochmal. Highlights from a visit to Ciudad Romero, Jiquilisco Bay, (the world's first UNESCO-recognized Local Peace Zone), Monsignor Romero's tomb and other landmarks in El Salvador. Features a special segment dedicated to the "maras," or gangs, with former gang members from the Homies Unidos organization providing the historic context in which this phenomenon developed in El Salvador and later throughout Central America, as well as its current state of affairs and efforts to rehabilitate and reintegrate. A copy of this program can be found at the National General Archives in El Salvador (AGNES). The clip included here is the final medley containing highlights from the 2-hour special.

Honduras: New State Under Construction, or Old Foundation with a New Face? (2000) From a 6-part series on Honduras, this excerpt examines the persecution of journalists, foreshadowing the current rash of murders. Elsewhere, the report examines bigotry and race-driven crimes, the murder of minorities and land activists, domestic violence, and many of the other ills that have, in the ensuing years, turned into the scourges that put Honduras through the gravest crisis of its modern history. The report also includes a segment on Honduras’s artists and its artistic treasures.

Wasaruña. ("We Awaken"). Special documentary report on The Bicentennial of the Arrival of the Garífuna in Honduras. Co-produced by Daa’iya Lomax and Walter Krochmal. Broadcast April 12th, 1997 by WBAI 99.5 (Pacifica Radio) on “Labbrish” (H. Selassie); over “Afrikaleidoscope” (Elombe Brath) and by “Our Americas” (M. Murillo). Contains a dramatic reenactment of the Garífuna exile from the island of Saint Vincent to Roatán, Bay Islands, Honduras, at the hands of the British. Also includes interviews with Garífuna leaders and the music of leading Garífuna music groups. The Garífuna people speak the ancient language of the Caribbean and inhabit the Atlantic Coast of Honduras, Belize, Guatemala and parts of Nicaragua. Their culture has been Designated a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO.

Radio Introduction. A 2-minute experimental program intro created on a whim for use on Brother Shine's early morning program.. This represents several weeks of work, as the sound had to be painstakingly recorded on analog using looping, re-recording and superimposing techniques, then the piece had to be cut using magnetic tape and sharp blades. It was the late 90’s and the digital workstations we all take for granted had not yet arrived at WBAI at that time...