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May 21, 2019

The 23rd International Cubadisco Music Fair pays tribute today to a paradigmatic figure of vocal performance on this continent, Benny Moré (1919-1963), on the centenary of his birth.

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May 21, 2019

Diana Balboa: Original and Multiple is the title of the exhibition by that renowned Cuban engraver and painter (Cienfuegos, 1945) that was inaugurated this Thursday the 16th, at 4:00 in the afternoon, at the Carmen Montilla gallery belonging to the Office of the Historian of the City.

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May 21, 2019

Kendrys Morales has gone down in history as the sixth Caribbean player to hit a home run wearing the uniform of the New York Yankees.

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May 20, 2019

The commemorative celebration for the centennial of documentarian Santiago Álvarez began in February with the inauguration of an exhibition in the gallery of l, located on the second floor of the School of Economics at the University of La Habana.

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May 20, 2019

The Cuban Rafael Alba (+87 kg) won the gold medal on the final day of the World Taekwondo Championship, held in Manchester, England.

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May 20, 2019

The best Cuban road cyclist Arlenis Sierra achieved two podiums this weekend in the fifth edition of the Tour of California and finished third in the points classification, which constituted her third participation in the prestigious cycling event, which is scorable for the Olympic ranking and was won for the second time by Dutch cyclist Anna Van Der Breggen, Olympic and world champion.

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May 19, 2019

The director Max Bragado-Darman led the Monterey Symphony in a concert of three popular masterworks at the Sunset Center in Carmel, and, as expected, it was a great success, as each piece received a great ovation.

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May 18, 2019

The outstanding pianist and composer Aldo López-Gavilán will return to the Martí Theater in the capital on Sunday, June 2 at 5:00 pm.

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May 18, 2019

Cuban musician Leo Brouwer arrived in Istanbul to participate in the VI International Guitar Festival, where he will teach a seminar and two master classes, according to the event organizers.

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May 17, 2019

Recorded in New York and Havana, the new album by Cuban singer Isaac Delgado is already available in the iTunes digital store and will reach the rest of the Internet platforms on May 24.

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May 17, 2019

The Cuban musician based in Los Angeles dedicated the piece to José Martí and titled it La palma real.

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May 17, 2019

The outstanding pianist Huberal Herrera will celebrate his 90 years of age at the Basílica Menor de San Francisco de Asís.

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May 16, 2019

In the context of Los Van Van's 50 years, the renowned orchestra will celebrate the first International Timba Festival "Forever Formell", in tribute to the founder of the "Cuban music train".

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May 16, 2019

Zaida del Río, one of the most relevant figures in Cuban visual arts, has announced on her Facebook profile that next Saturday, May 19th at 3:00 pm at the Segovia 3443 bookstore in Coral Gables she will present her new poetry book.

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May 15, 2019

The Association of Entertainment Chroniclers of New York (ACE) has just awarded the ACE AWARD to Vladimir Cruz from Cuba for "Los buenos demonios", an artistic work considered the most outstanding of 2019 in the following category and section: Film/Best Male Supporting Performance.

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May 14, 2019

The Cuban pianist Marcos Madrigal expressed his satisfaction with the opportunity to share the stage as a soloist with the Monterey Symphony, in California, United States.

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May 13, 2019

On her Facebook wall, Cuban singer Haydeé Milanés, daughter of Pablo Milanés, expressed: Yesterday I was with my husband Alejandro Gutiérrez at Prado, in support of the LGBT community.

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May 13, 2019

Teatro Colsubsidio presents from Cuba to ALAÍN PÉREZ Y LA ORQUESTA in Bogotá.

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May 12, 2019

Vicente Feliú, the Cuban singer-songwriter, expressed on his Facebook account dated May 11: "The absurd repression, shameful, dangerously evocative, of this afternoon's gay march is definitively indefensible.

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May 12, 2019

Little Mother This sentimental song has traveled the world.

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May 12, 2019

Cuban Alfredo Despaigne hit his seventh home run of the campaign this Saturday to contribute to the 4-2 victory of the SoftBank Hawks over the Lotte Marines at Yafuoku Dome in Fukuoka.

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May 11, 2019

The renowned Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez was the deserving recipient of the Gold Medal awarded by the International Music and Dance Festival of Úbeda, Spain, in an emotional encounter with organizers and members of the Festival and attending public who had been eagerly awaiting his arrival for several days, which resulted in a prolonged standing ovation upon Silvio's arrival that lasted several minutes.

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May 10, 2019

Carlos Acosta has been awarded this week with the British Circle of Critics Prize for Services to the Arts of 2018.

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May 10, 2019

He was yesterday's guest at the Orquesta Sinfónica de Cuba concert in Bilbao By: ANDRÉS PORTERO Photo: Oskar González) BILBAO- Silvio Rodríguez will die as he has lived, faithful to his ideas and songs.

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May 9, 2019

"Tito Reacciona" is the name of a series broadcast via YouTube created by the Instituto Latino de la Música (ILM), which tells the story of Tito, an 8-year-old "youtuber," who seeks to revive children's interest and taste for Cuba's musical idols.

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May 9, 2019

The Cuban writer Wendy Guerra Torres thanks her Spanish readers and the Alfaguara España publishing house, the Spanish press and the friends who spoil and indulge her so much for the beautiful and warm reception her new book "The Mercenary Who Collected Works of Art" has had.

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May 9, 2019

Vital Space is the title of the visual arts exhibition, bearing the stamp of artist Jesús Lara Sotelo, displayed in the lobby of the Avellaneda Hall, of the National Theater, on the occasion of the 75th birthday and 60 years of professional work of maestro Frank Fernández.

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May 9, 2019

The membership of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences seeks to represent thinkers and innovators from around the world, notable for their contributions in very different professions and branches of knowledge.

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October 12, 2018

Children from the Unión Internacional de Estudiantes Primary School and the Fructuoso Rodríguez Secondary School exchanged with teacher Digna Guerra at the headquarters of the Coro Nacional de Cuba and received instructions on how our glorious Hymn of Bayamo, which became our National Anthem, should be sung, in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Beginning of the Independence Struggles and the first singing of the Hymn of Bayamo.

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October 12, 2018

Silvio Rodríguez and Vicente Feliú will be among the guests who will pay tribute to Luis Eduardo Aute on December 10th at a concert to be held at the WiZink Center in Madrid, coinciding with the celebration of the 75th birthday of the creator of Aleluya, Rosas en el mar, Pasaba por aquí and Al alba.

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October 11, 2018

The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, made his debut this Wednesday as a Twitter user, becoming the first leader of the Island with a real presence on this popular platform.

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October 11, 2018

Cuban writer Leonardo Padura has won the Barcino International Historical Novel Prize, which is awarded as part of the Barcelona Novela Histórica literary competition, which reaches its sixth edition this year, according to an announcement today by the Institut de Cultura de Barcelona, organizer of the event.

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October 9, 2018

The Chamber Orchestra Música Eterna, directed by National Music Prize winner Guido López Gavilán, will perform these days in the western provinces, in celebration of the Cuban Culture Day.

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October 9, 2018

It cannot be otherwise for someone who played a role of the utmost importance in the crystallization of the orchestral style with which vernacular music reached its most refined expression around the middle of the last century.

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October 6, 2018

# Translation Destiny played another bad trick on "El Guille.

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October 6, 2018

The Cuban Tania Bruguera incites tears to be shed for the victims of the immigration crisis in a work with several surprising elements that was inaugurated this Monday at the Tate Modern in London.

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October 4, 2018

The Somos catalog, by Cuban photographer Roberto Chile, will be presented today Wednesday, October 3rd, at 4:00 p.

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October 4, 2018

Silvio and his accompanying musicians will perform on October 28 at Villa Dominico, in the Park of Workers' Rights (Avenida Mitre 5000), as part of the "Week of Cuban Culture".

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September 29, 2018

Brigadier General (retired) and former Attorney General of the Republic of Cuba, Juan Escalona, died in Havana on Friday, September 28 from bronchopneumonia at the age of 87, Cuban television reported.

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September 29, 2018

On the occasion of the celebration of Harold Gramatges' centennial, at the Lyceum Mozartiano in Havana, we spoke with its director, Ulises Hernández Morgadanes, a renowned pianist, professor, composer and researcher, record producer and winner of countless piano awards, both national and international.

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September 27, 2018

On the morning of September 25th, the lyrical text Canción antigua a Che Guevara by the notable Cuban intellectual Mirta Aguirre, dedicated to the immortal Heroic Guerrilla fighter, was presented in the space El libro del Mes.

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September 27, 2018

Cuba finished in eighth place at the World Judo Championship that concluded this Wednesday in Baku, the Azerbaijani capital, thanks to the performance of artemiseña Idalys Ortiz, who won the silver medal in the 78 kg division.

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September 26, 2018

Singer-songwriter Daymé Arocena, a revelation of Cuban Latin jazz, embraces this genre as a "philosophy of life" that got into her "veins" and allows her the "creative freedom" to fuse it with rhythms from the island to interpret them with a renewed perspective.

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September 26, 2018

Each generation of readers may have imagined a different portrait of Cuban writer José Lezama Lima.

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September 25, 2018

In the work of painter Manuel López Oliva, for more than two decades, multiple signs of theatricality, of masks, rituality and life metaphorized by the disguises of culture have appeared.

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September 25, 2018

The recent feature film by Spanish director Iciar Bollaín, inspired by the life of Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta, is receiving praise from specialists today following its premiere at the San Sebastián International Film Festival.

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September 24, 2018

The renowned interpreter Beatriz Márquez presented today her most recent record production, Libre de pecado, which comes from the hand of the Record Label and Musical Publishing House Producciones Colibrí, to pay homage to the work of maestro Adolfo Guzmán.

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September 24, 2018

The dancer, choreographer, and director Irene Rodríguez said today that she feels honored because the Embassy of Spain in La Habana summoned her to distinguish her with the Grand Cross of the Order of Isabel la Católica.

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