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On June 28, 2015, Raymond Torres-Santos had the pleasure to pay tribute to the history of film and music from Puerto Rico in the concert, Puerto Rican Film Music: 1950-2013, held at the Center for the Fine Arts in San Juan and sponsored by the Puerto Rico Art Museum in celebration of its 15th Anniversary. In it, he arranged, orchestrated and conducted all music by his teachers and mentors for symphony orchestra (such as: Amaury Veray, Hector Campos Parsi, Luis Antonio Ramirez, Lito Peña, Pedro Rivera Toledo, Cucco Peña and Carlos Camuñas, among others). Torres-Santos was joined by the musicians of the Puerto Rico Philharmonic Orchestra, who did a magnificent job in performing 17 challenging and diverse scores, from classical and rock to criollo and salsa, while the respective films were projected on a screen. He was also fortunate to share the stage with dear friends: Hilda Ramos, Edgardo Huertas, Cuquito Peña, Angel Torres and Geronimo Mercado. They enhanced the audio-visual experience. Torres-Santos was certainly pleased to see film directors, producers, actresses and actors in the audience (such as, Jacobo Morales, Marcos Zurinaga, Luis Molina, Efrain Lopez Neri, Ivonne Belén, Pedro Muñiz, Raúl Marchand, Noel Quiñones and David Santiago, among many others). At the end, the audience corresponded with a standing ovation.