The Escuela de Niñas Ciegas (School for Blind Girls) in the Las Fuentes neighborhood of Zapopan was the venue for the first service concert of the newest branch of an organization founded by a French priest whose mission was helping young musicians.
Renowned mezzo-soprano Kimball Wheeler, who lives in Guadalajara, has been involved with the organization, Pro Musicis, since the 1980s when she won an award from them and began a series of regular and service concerts around the world.
“It changed my career dramatically,” she said. So after she moved here from California, she thought of starting up a Latin American branch of Pro Musicis. The concert Tuesday at the School for Blind Girls was the first of this newly formed branch. Pro Musicis founder Father Merlet died recently, Wheeler said, spurring her desire to do a concert in his memory.