Editing Mayagüez, Puerto Rico (section)

===Anthem===
The city's anthem was written by pianist and former music teacher [[Luciano Quiñones]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.salonhogar.com/est_soc/pr/pueblos/mayaguez/index.htm |title=Mayaguez |publisher=Salonhogar.com |access-date=June 7, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090415085533/http://www.salonhogar.com/est_soc/pr/pueblos/mayaguez/index.htm |archive-date=April 15, 2009 |url-status=live }}</ref> a long-time resident and now "adopted son" of the city. Until this song's adoption, the [[plena]] "''A Mayagüez''", written by [[César Concepción]], was used by many as an unofficial city song. Quiñones' composition was the winner of a contest sponsored by the city's municipality in 2003.<ref name="Cedó">{{Citation|first=Federico |last=Cedó Alzamora |title=El Himno de Mayagüez |series=Publicación Oficial No. 010 |publisher=Oficina del Historiador de Mayagüez. |url=http://www.mayaguez.pr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=76&Itemid=106&lang=es |access-date=July 21, 2010 |language=es |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110810064742/http://www.mayaguez.pr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=76&Itemid=106&lang=es |archive-date=August 10, 2011 }}</ref>

Mayor José Guillermo Rodríguez and the Municipal Legislature entrusted the Advisory Board of Art and Culture of Mayagüez to hold a contest to select an anthem for the city.<ref name="Cedó"/> The selected composition was a [[danza]] by Mr Luciano Quiñones, who has a bachelor's degree in music, a piano professor the Escuela Libre de Música de Mayagüez, he is a music composer already winning nineteen abarrios in competitions held by the Institute of Puerto Rican culture, and the Circulo de Recreo de San Germán.<ref name="Cedó"/> The lyrics alludes to the emblematic symbols of Mayagüez; its nicknames, to its [[Virgin of Candelaria|Patron Saint]], its taste of [[mango]], to its sunsets in the [[Mayagüez Bay|bay]], to the [[Taíno people|Taíno]], to [[Eugenio María de Hostos]], their role as cultural cradle, the sympathy of the ladies and the dream of its valleys and its mountains.<ref name="Cedó"/>

The anthem was presented to the people in a memorable concert held in commemoration of the 239 anniversary of the founding of the city on the night of September 18, 1999, interpreted by tenor, Mayagüez adopted son, Rafael José Díaz, Mayagüezana lyric soprano, Hilda Ramos, accompanied by the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra conducted by its Associate Director, Mayagüezana Roselyn Pabón, in the same place where such Symphony Orchestra offered his first concert forty years earlier: the [[Plaza Colón]].<ref name="Cedó"/> This danza was recognized as the official anthem of Mayagüez through the Municipal Ordinance number 58, series 1999–2000, adopted on December 20, 1999, by the City Council, which was signed by the Mayor, Honorable José Guillermo Rodríguez on December 24, 1999.<ref name="Cedó"/>

MIDI and recorded versions of the anthem can be listened to here.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ladanza.com/mayahimn.htm |title=Himno a Mayagüez |publisher=Ladanza.com |access-date=June 7, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013155709/http://ladanza.com/mayahimn.htm |archive-date=October 13, 2007 |url-status=live }}</ref>