“A Music Mystery” written and directed by Raphael Rada set to play on Nov. 17

Fall would not be complete without “A Music Mystery,” written and directed by DMC faculty member Raphael Rada partnering with pianist Michael Steele. The show will be at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 17 in Wolfe Recital Hall, 101 Baldwin Blvd. Admission is free. Rada has been teaching at Del Mar the past 15 years. “Singer’s Theatre is one of the music groups in the Music Department and we present a show at the end of the semester. The students sing selections from operas, operettas and musicals,” Rada said. Pianist Steele had his start at Del Mar as a rehearsal accompanist for…

Poet, author Salinas gives reading at DMC

DMC libraries and the Mexican American Studies Program celebrated National Poetry Month with an extended invitation to San Antonio poet and author Alex Z. Salinas at Wolfe Recital Hall on April 13. Salinas has written two full-length books of poetry, “Warbles” (2019) and “Dreamt or the Lingering Phantoms of Equinox” (2020), a collection of stories in “City Lights from the Upside Down” (2021) and two books of poetry called “Trash Poems” (July 2023) and “Hispanic Sonnets” (fall 2023) that are to be released later this year. DMC Reference Librarian Alan Berecka introduced Salinas. “We met during the pandemic through an…