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Alfonso Alex Ortiz (April 30, 1939 San Juan, New Mexico – January 26, 1997) was a Native American cultural anthropologist.
Ortiz graduated from the University of New Mexico in 1961, and from the University of Chicago with a master's degree and a Ph.D. in anthropology. He taught at University of California at Los Angeles, Colorado College, Pitzer College and Princeton University, and at the University of New Mexico.
He was president of the Association on American Indian Affairs. His San Juan Pueblo, Oral History tapes and papers are held at Princeton.
In 1999, the National Endowment for the Humanities issued a grant for the University of New Mexico to establish the Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies.
Alfonso Ortiz Tirado was an opera singer and doctor born in Álamos, Sonora, Mexico in 1893. His musical talent was apparent early in life, but he studied at the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria and university to become a doctor. He specialized in gynecology as well as general medicine, and eventually became the personal physician of Frida Kahlo and performed surgery on Agustín Lara. As a musician, he studied under José Pierson and soon afterward had a successful international career as an opera singer, earning the label of “tenor of the Americas.” He was often cast for productions of L'elisir d'amore and Madame Butterfly. He earned a large sum of money doing this, and used it to establish a children’s hospital in Mexico City. Ortiz died in 1960, and was interred at the Panteón Frances de la Piedad. The Festival de Canto Operístico Tirado in the state of Sonora was named after him.
El Dr Alfonso Ortiz Tirado nacio en ALAMO,ciudad en el estado de SONORA MEXICO
Letra del Poeta Uruguayo Fernán Silva Valdéz, music de Juan de Dios Filiberto, Fue Estrenado por Tania durate la famosa temporada que los Discépolo hicieron, en 1930, en el teatro "Argentino". Cuando estuvo en Buenos Aires, el tenor mexicano Dr. Alfonso Ortiz Tirado incorporó este tango a su repertorio
El Dr. Alfonso Ortiz Tirado y Pedro Vargas interpretan a Mario Talavera y Manuel Muzquiz Blanco
El doctor Alfonso Ortiz Tirado interpreta a Emilio de Nicolas, con la orquesta de Cibelli