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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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September 22, 2018

Phonograms belonging to the Cuban companies Egrem and Producciones Colibrí were classified in the list of nominees for the 2018 Latin Grammy Awards.

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September 22, 2018

Eusebio Leal Spengler, Historian of the City of Havana, was recognized with the Hadrian Prize awarded by the World Monuments Fund (WMF) for "his heroic efforts to preserve and restore Old Havana," one of the most beautiful and well-preserved historic centers in the American continent, named by UNESCO as Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 1982.

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September 21, 2018

The Cuban singer Haydée Milanés has been chosen as a voting member of the Latin Grammy Academy, as announced by the artist herself through her personal Facebook account.

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September 21, 2018

One of the categories that are predicted to be most difficult in this 22nd edition of the Cubadisco 2018 festival is Cancionística.

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September 20, 2018

The British press, famous for its demands and honest treatment regarding what it promotes, has bestowed upon Carmen la cubana, the musical that covered the first part of August at the prestigious Sadler's Wells, with accolades that could seem surprising.

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September 20, 2018

Stars of international and Cuban music will unite in concert to wish many happy returns and "encouragement, animal" to singer-songwriter and poet Luis Eduardo Aute, who has just turned 75 years old.

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September 19, 2018

"Korda photographed dozens of beautiful women in his lifetime, but it is not yet possible to trace the aesthetic journey he made through their faces and bodies," confess the organizers of the exhibition Interrupted Obsessions, Women in the Photography of Alberto Korda, which opened this Friday at the Fototeca de Cuba, on the 90th anniversary of the birth of the Cuban photographic genius.

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September 19, 2018

On September 18th, the International Judo Federation (IJF) honored 19 names to the Hall of Fame of their discipline in a striking and elegant ceremony held at the Buta Palace in Baku, among them Cuban coach Ronaldo Veitía, the third Cuban to achieve entry into this exclusive venue.

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September 18, 2018

The Cuban Erick Hernández set another world record for ball control in Havana by keeping the ball in motion using only his feet and without touching the ground for three hours, two minutes and three seconds.

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September 18, 2018

The talented Cuban pianist Alfredo Rodríguez Jr.

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September 16, 2018

After suffering for months from stomach cancer, in the morning of September 15, Dimas Juantorena Danger, Glory of Cuban Sports, passed away at the Pedro Kourí Institute of Tropical Medicine in Havana.

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September 15, 2018

The seventh art has been one of the great passions of actress Isabel Santos, she has starred in the most transcendental Cuban films, imprinting her temperament and personality on them, among which Clandestinos, Lejanías and Aire frío stand out.

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September 14, 2018

The Cuban singer Alain Pérez was one of the artists present during the Meeting of Creators of Jazz Fusion and Experimental (AJAZZGO) held in the city of Cali, Colombia.

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September 14, 2018

With the presence of Arturo Infante, director and screenwriter of the new Cuban film, producer Claudia Calviño (representing Producciones de la 5ta.

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September 13, 2018

Presented at the Toronto Festival with all the red carpet paraphernalia and media fanfare, the television series Homecoming is propelled by Amazon and the combined talents of Julia Roberts, Cuban-American Bobby Cannavale, and the notable screenwriter turned director Sam Esmail, well-known for the previous Mr.

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September 13, 2018

The Cuban National Chess Commission, in light of the most recent events, offers an update on the status of its relations with Grandmaster Lázaro Bruzón Batista.

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September 12, 2018

The popular singer and songwriter Liuba María Hevia and her group performed on Monday, September 10 at the Hospital Infantil Sur Dr.

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September 12, 2018

The piano captivated him from his earliest years; he entered the Alejandro García Caturla Conservatory at a very young age.

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September 11, 2018

The prominent Cuban musician and composer Raúl Torres performed yesterday Monday and today Tuesday in the province of Camagüey, as part of his most recent national tour.

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September 11, 2018

The Cuban actress Ana de Armas will star in the thriller "Waiting for Helen", which American actor and filmmaker Kevin Pollak is preparing, reported the specialized media outlet Variety today.

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September 10, 2018

Cuban basketball pivot Javier Justiz appeared before the press for the first time after arriving in Barcelona to join the Spanish basketball club Tecnyconta Zaragoza.

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September 10, 2018

"With Two Who Love Each Other," in its third season, will be broadcast on the Cubavisión channel, Tuesdays at 8:30 p.

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September 9, 2018

Yordan Manduley had another excellent season with the Quebec Capitales in the Can-Am League, finishing as the leader in batting during the qualifying stage.

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September 8, 2018

On Friday, September 21, at 7:00 pm, Silvio will offer his 95th concert of the tour through the neighborhoods.

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September 7, 2018

Chicago White Sox first baseman José Abreu has reported that he underwent emergency surgery last month to correct a testicular condition.

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September 7, 2018

She becomes the first female singer to reach one billion 'streams' on digital platforms.

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September 6, 2018

The work "The Scent of Cherry Trees," by Cuban author Marta Acosta Álvarez, won the XVII edition of the Ibero-American Julio Cortázar Prize, among more than 200 texts by short story authors residing on all continents.

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September 6, 2018

When she sings she gifts her talent, her voice and her Cubanness on every stage.

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September 5, 2018

The Cuban singer-songwriter Pablo Milanés announced that he will offer a concert at the Karl Marx Theater in Havana on September 7th in tribute to the 500th anniversary of the founding of the Cuban capital.

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September 5, 2018

The historian of the city of Havana, Eusebio Leal, arrived in Stockholm on the eve, where he will complete an official work visit until September 12.

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September 4, 2018

A tribute to Cuban musician Juan Formell, founder of the orchestra Los Van Van, took place today here at the Superior Institute of Art (ISA) with the inauguration of the chair that bears his name.

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September 4, 2018

"I left Cuba because I fell in love and I left Venezuela because I got scared," said popular Cuban actress Beatriz Valdés in an interview with EVTV Miami.

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September 3, 2018

Former Cuban national baseball team player Germán Mesa and his compatriot Rogelio García, a former right-handed pitcher, will manage the team from the central province of Veraguas in the upcoming Panamanian baseball season.

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September 3, 2018

On September 4th, the Centro de Arte de Cienfuegos will open an exhibition composed of 18 engravings by the celebrated creator Wifredo Lam, the most universal of Cuban painters.

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September 2, 2018

UNESCO has formally created the Iberoamerican Dance Chair «Alicia Alonso», attached to Rey Juan Carlos University, in Spain, thereby opening a new avenue of international cooperation in the field of training and research in university-level dance education and other related artistic genres, as well as the study and preservation of intangible heritage in this discipline.

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