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	Costa Rica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Republic of Costa Rica (Spanish: República de Costa Rica, IPA: [re'puβlika ðe 'kosta 'rika]) is a country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the south-southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, and the Caribbean Sea to the east.
		Costa Rica has avoided the violence that has plagued Central America; it is seen as an example of political stability in the region, and is referred to as the "Switzerland of the Americas".
		Costa Rica is a member of the International Criminal Court and rejected U.S. offers to set up a security training center in the country on the grounds that a country with no army could not harbor a center with possible military purposes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Costa_Rica (2310 words)

	Costa_Rica
		Costa Rica was then the southernmost province in the Spanish territory of New Spain.
		Costa Rica's economy was based on agriculture (coffee, bananas, pineapples, ornamentals), but in recent times ecotourism, electronics,pharmaceutics, financial outsourcing and software develoment are in the actuality the main sources of business.
		Costa Rica has a population of 4,016,173 persons (July 2005 est.) In the central part of the country, most people are of European descent but some are also mestizos (to varying degrees).[3] Because of little intermarriage, most of the population today retain European complexions.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/c/co/costa_rica.html (2394 words)

	Costa Rica, Arts and Culture
		Costa Rica, with its relatively small and heterogeneous pre-Columbian population, had no unique culture with powerful and unusual artforms that could spark a creative synthesis where the modern and the traditional might merge.
		Costa Rica's postcolonial development, too, was benign and the social tensions (which are often catalysts to artistic expression) felt elsewhere in the isthmus were lacking.
		Costa Rica stepped onto the world stage in classical music with the formation, in 1970, of the National Symphony Orchestra under the leadership of an American, Gerald Brown.
	www.photo.net /cr/moon/arts-and-culture (2449 words)

	Costa Rica.Net
		Costa Rica is also different from other Latin American countries, because it practices a "lukewarm" Catholicism that causes a strange mixture of partying and religious celebration during these holidays.
		Costa Rica's early fl population was "dramatically upwardly mobile" and by the 1920s a majority of the West Indian immigrants owned plots of land or had risen to higher-paying positions within the banana industry.
		Costa Rica's fl population has consistently attained higher educational standards than the national average and many fls are now found in leading professions throughout the nation.
	www.costarica.net /features/culture.htm (7701 words)

	Costa Rica Travel Guide \| Fodor's Online
		Costa Rica is riding a wave of well-deserved popularity as an ecological wonderland.
		Costa Rica's natural beauty and accessibility appeal to a broad range of visitors.
		Costa Rica is also the region's most sturdy democracy, and the country has a deep-rooted respect for human rights.
	www.fodors.com /miniguides/mgresults.cfm?destination=costa_rica@53&cur_section=ove (522 words)

	A2Z Languages - Costa Rica - Country Guide - Music
		On the Caribbean coast music is profoundly Afro-Caribbean in spirit and rhythm, with plentiful drums and banjos, a local rhythm called sinkit, and the cuadrille, a maypole dance in which each dancer holds one of many ribbons tied to the top of a pole: as they dance they braid their brightly colored ribbons.
		The country is one of the southernmost of the "marimba culture" countries, although the African-derived marimba (xylophone) music of Costa Rica is more elusive and restrained.
		Costa Rica's biggest cultural event is the International arts festival held annually in San Jose for about two weeks in March.
	www.a2zlanguages.com /Costarica/costarica_music&dance.htm (619 words)

	PRISM--Oct. '95/Ojos En... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		The influence in this music is clearly not Latin but African, as the largest group of inhabitants of the Limon province in Costa Rica are Jamaicans, who were brought in by the Spanish to cultivate cocoa in the 1500s.
		Written and performed primarily for October Carnivale, the music of "Calypsos‹Afro-Limonese Music of Costa Rica" is a celebration of the life and culture of the local communities.
		The music is carried by the timbale (steel drums) and conga, and generally is made of two or four beats per bar with its accents lying on the weaker beats.
	www.journalism.sfsu.edu /www/pubs/prism/oct95/m1.html (288 words)

	Latin Trade: Costa Rica
		Costa Rica has a well-developed tourism infrastructure, ranging from luxurious beachfront hotels to locally run lodges that provide a base for exploring the pristine mountains and rain forests.
		Ticos, as Costa Ricans are commonly known, know their country is a special place and go out of their way to accommodate visitors, pointing them in the right direction, explaining the local customs and helping to ensure an enjoyable stay.
		Costa Rica is the oldest democracy in Latin America.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0BEK/is_7_9/ai_76937726 (421 words)

	Horizontes Nature Tours, Costa Rica - General Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Papaya Music is a consortium of musicians, producers and researchers who want to rescue traditional popular composers from oblivion, encourage young people to go back to their roots, inspire new musical forms and ensure that the artists receive fairer remuneration for their work.
		Every Papaya Music disc is a celebration, a piece of Central America’s musical identity that brings together traditional and contemporary performers, well-known artists and graphic designers, sound technicians, photographers, researchers and writers to blend music, images, lyrics, information and anecdotes, making each CD a small, unique work of art.
		The Costa Rican New Song is well represented by Malpais, a group that takes its name from the most isolated beach on the Nicoya Peninsula, where the road ends.
	www.horizontes.com /general_info/costa_rican_music.htm (392 words)

	CU Winds to tour Costa Rica
		The nine-day concert and outreach tour is a collaboration between Cornell's music department and Costa Rica's North American Cultural Center, along with other organizations and individuals, and is supported in part by the Cornell Council for the Arts.
		Some of the instruments are being refurbished free of charge by Hickey's Music in Ithaca, she says.
		Johnson Turner was introduced to Bermúdez last January when she was in Costa Rica looking for composers to write a commissioned piece, in particular someone who could help "expand the definition of wind ensemble music," she says.
	www.news.cornell.edu /stories/Dec05/CUwinds.1208.dea.html (704 words)

	Costa rica audiologist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
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	costa-rica-audiologist.sky.waw.pl (375 words)

	International Trombone Festival :: Performers :: Trombones de Costa Rica
		Trombones de Costa Rica, ensemble-in-residence of the National Auditorium of Costa Rica and winners of the 1999 Special Prize of the City of Passau in Germany and the 1997 National Music Award, is one of the most interesting and exotic brass ensembles of the American continent.
		Martín Bonilla is the trombone and euphonium teacher at the University of Costa Rica Music School and euphonium professor at the National Institute of Music of Costa Rica.
		Bass trombonist Iván Chinchilla is professor of Tuba at the National Institute of Music of Costa Rica and also professor of bass trombone, tuba, chamber music and symphonic band at the University of Costa Rica Music School.
	www.ita-web.org /festival/itf2002/performers/tcr.asp (622 words)

	Costa Rica Page travel and retirement guide
		Costa Rica is located in Central America, with Nicaragua on the north, Panama on the south, the Caribbean on the east and the Pacific Ocean on the west.
		Electricity throughout Costa Rica is 120 V, 60 Hz using the same type plugs as in the United States.
		Costa Rica is the ultimate ecotourism destination, just as popular for what one does as what one sees.
	www.boomersabroad.com /costarica.html (876 words)

	Arts and Culture of Costa Rica
		Lacking great goals and struggles, Costa Rica was never a breeding ground for the passions and dialectics that spawned the literary geniuses of Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Cuba, and Chile, whose works, full of satire and bawdy humor, are clenched fists which cry out against social injustice.
		Costa Rica's early literary figures were mostly essayists and poets: Roberto Brenes Mesen and Joaquín García Monge are the most noteworthy.
		Costa Rica stepped onto the world stage in classical music with the formation, in 1970, of the National Symphony Orchestra under the baton of an American, Gerald Brown.
	www.centralamerica.com /cr/moon/moart.htm (3111 words)

	Costa Rica's Daily News Magazine!
		According to analysts, the rise experienced by inflation in the last few months points to the fact that the overall 9 percent goal set by the Central Bank and the Government for this year is becoming ever harder to attain.
		The orchestra was invited to the picturesque Central American country by the National Institute of Music of Costa Rica.
		Bart de Lange, chairman of the Costa Rican Association of Flower Growers, said that 90 percent of the flower exports are destined to the United States.
	insidecostarica.com /dailynews/2004/march/06 (2215 words)

	Vancouver Folk Music Festival Performer Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		As one of the lesser known countries of Latin America, we were fairly ignorant of the Costa Rican musical scene.
		Costa Rican music embraces an astounding variety -ranging from European influences in the central part of the country, to the almost cowboy tradition in the northwest province of Guanacaste, to the rich fl tradition on the Atlantic coast.
		The music of Cantoamérica is based in Costa Rica but also adds to the totality of Latin American culture that has produced so much exciting and dynamic music in the last few years.
	www.thefestival.bc.ca /archive/index.cfm?perID=1396 (173 words)

	Fernando Meza: School of Music: University of Minnesota
		Professor Meza began musical studies in his home country of Costa Rica under the tutelage of Stuart Marrs in 1972 as part of the Costa Rica National Symphony’s Youth Orchestra Program, currently the National Institute of Music of Costa Rica.
		Meza’s musical interests are wide and include the study of orchestral and contemporary solo and chamber music for marimba and percussion, North Indian tabla drums, the folkloric marimba traditions of Costa Rica, Latin American contemporary and traditional music, and music technology as applied to learning.
		On the educational side, he is fundamentally committed to the development of complete musicianship with his students and to this end has created a program of studies which encompasses experiences of both global and local elements within the percussion world aimed at helping the students become intellectually mature and professionally successful in their own right.
	www.music.umn.edu /directory/facProfiles/MezaFernando.php (748 words)

	Samara Beach, Samara, Playa Samara, Costa Rica Beach Hotels, Reservations - Special Events in Samara
		For the town of San Juanillo (85°:48’ west; 9°:58´ north) on the Nicoya peninsula in the northwest of Costa Rica, where the central line meets mainland, the following is the chronograph of events for the contacts, the altitude and the azimuth of the sun.
		Since we are in new moon, that day the moon is pretty close to the sun in the sky, it raises at 5h: 17’ and sets at 17h: 19’, the age is 29,2 days and its apparent diameter is 30’: 8’’, insufficient to cover the sun, that's why the eclipse is annular.
		For the second time Samara Beach was the stage of some of the concerts of the 11th Festival of Music of Costa Rica.
	www.samarabeach.com /events.htm (1253 words)

	VII International Music Festival - Costa Rica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Costa Rica is a small lush country with an incredible natural richness, different landscapes and a wide variety of climates.
		Here you can visit a rain forest in the morning and come back to listen to a string quartet in the evening, or lay on a white sand tropical beach all day long and be on time for a piano recital at 8:00 p.m.
		The Costa Rica International Music Festival is held every summer at the Opera of San José (Teatro Nacional) a splendid architectural masterpiece from the Nineteenth Century, where one can listen to great interpreters playing on a Steinway grand or a dainty harpsichord, all with incomparable acoustics.
	www.centralamerica.com /cr/musfest (267 words)

	USC: USC TIMES: Short Article Title (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Costa Rica's best-known musicians, the husband-wife team of Juan Carlos Urena and Jeana Paul-Urena, will perform at 7:30 p.m.
		Well known in Central America, the Urenas have created a contemporary and energetic musical style that combines subtle influences from the places they have lived Costa Rica, the United States and Brazil with Afro-Caribbean rhythms and traditional folk melodies of Central America.
		The March 23 concert is titled "Canciones de la Tierra y el Alma: Contemporary Music from Costa Rica." With the aim to improve the world through their music, the Urenas' music features lyrics with positive social messages of love, defense of human rights, social justice and ecological protection.
	www.sc.edu /usctimes/articles/2002/2002-03/costa_rica_group_0302.html (244 words)

	Study Abroad in Costa Rica
		When the country of Costa Rica abolished her armed forces, budgets once allocated for military spending, were redirected to education and art.
		Costa Rica is home to a rich artistic culture of art, theater, music, and dance.
		In addition to learning about Costa Rica, students were also able to practice their Spanish skills by volunteering their time in activities associated with their field of study, such as education,
	leonardo.sfasu.edu /PaulUrena/studyabroad.htm (666 words)

	Costa Rica Art, Culture & History: Including Music & Sports in Costa Rica
		Bill Beard is the true pioneer of scuba diving in Costa Rica, diving there for the first time 30 years ago from dug out canoes.
		Costa Rican Soccer - Costa Rican Soccer -
		Relocating to Costa Rica means having a good time - Retirement or just living in another country often presents new challenges for people because perhaps for the first time they are confronted with having a plethora of leisure time and the problem of what to do to with it.
	www.escapeartist.com /oque4/art.htm (687 words)

	Calypsos: Afro-Limonese Music from Costa Rica - Various Artists - UPC 744457741221
		Some of the richest and most diverse of all Afro-Caribbean cultures can be found in the Limon province of Costa Rica.
		The region's relative isolation, coupled with a large infusion of African labor since in the seventeenth century, have created a cultural hot-bed that finds it's voice in the calypso, perhaps the most unique blend of musical expression, social communication and commentary ever invented.
		These songs were recorded in Puerto Limon during their carnival festivals and offer a rare and unvarnished look at the essence of this remarkable music.
	www.lyrichord.com /index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=111 (119 words)

	Norman Gamboa, Music Department, Washburn University
		He holds a Bachelor of Music Degree from Baylor University, a Music Education Diploma from the Conservatorio de Castella for the Visual and Performing Arts of Costa Rica, an Artist Diploma from the National Institute of Music of Costa Rica, and a Masters Degree from the University of Nevada Las Vegas.
		He previously served on the faculties of the University of Costa Rica School of Music, National Institute of Music of Costa Rica, Metropolitan University of Chile, Conservatorio de Castella for the Visual and Performing Arts of Costa Rica, Paraíso School of Music, Las Vegas Music Festival, and the Medellín Music Institute.
		In Addition, he was the Artistic Director of the Unión Ensemble of Costa Rica, with which he toured throughout the United States, Central and South America, as well as the Caribbean.
	www.washburn.edu /cas/music/faculty/gamboa.html (251 words)

	Costa Rica and Chile
		Among my friends in Costa Rica, (where I lived for a while), are the members of the quartet known as Cellísimo, a prominent performing group which has brought heightened popularity to the cello in that country.
		He teaches cello at the National Institute of Music in Costa Rica, and is a founder of the Baroque Music Festival of Santa Ana, in which he performs extensively.
		The two other members are Marianela Cordero, a cellist in the National Symphony and cello teacher at the Music Academy of Santa Ana, and Luis Alvaro Zamora, a bassist with a music degree from the University of Costa Rica, and member of a variety of performing groups.
	www.cello.org /Newsletter/Articles/costaricachile.htm (776 words)

	Baylor University \|\| The Lariat Online \|\| News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		After graduation, Ugalde-Quiros went on to become a member of the Costa Rican National Symphony and a professor of clarinet at the National Institute of Music of Costa Rica.
		This spring break, members of the Baylor Symphony traveled to Costa Rica and performed at a cathedral in Herida.
		Hyde said music school students are genuinely broken up and many are shocked by the slaying.
	www.baylor.edu /Lariat/news.php?action=story&story=20607 (397 words)

	ACU group ministers through music in Costa Rica
		Members of the mission group sing in a park in San Jose, Costa Rica.
		Faculty, staff and alumni from Abilene Christian University used their musical talents to spread to the gospel during a Southern Hills Church of Christ mission trip to Costa Rica last week.
		If you are a member of the media who would like more information about this release, please contact Wendy Kilmer, Director of Public Relations.
	www.acu.edu /events/news/archives2004/040614_cosat_rica_mission.html (252 words)

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