June 3, 2019
The sensitivity of Asian culture and the electrifying energy of Afro-Cuban music dialogue in «Mine Kawakami and Chucho Valdés», a recording published by Sony Classical, after being recorded in Spain with these two protagonists.
Source: CubaSi
June 2, 2019
The outstanding Cuban actor in cinema, radio, television and theater, Salvador Wood, National Television Prize for a Lifetime of Work, has passed away this Saturday at the age of 90.
Source: Cubadebate
June 2, 2019
The Cuban saxophonist and clarinetist Paquito D'Rivera and Paraguayan guitarist Berta Rojas shared the stage again this Saturday, May 25th at a concert organized by the Classical Guitar Society of Miami.
Source: El Nuevo Herald
June 2, 2019
The prima ballerina assoluta cubana, Alicia Alonso, received last Friday the insignia of the Official College of Architects of the Valencian Community, Spain.
Source: Cuba.cu
June 1, 2019
At the XV International Film Festival of Gibara (FIC 2019), Cuban actress Daisy Granados, her compatriot director Fernando Pérez, and Puerto Rican actor Benicio del Toro will be awarded the Lucía de Honor Prize.
Source: Cubadebate
June 1, 2019
The former pitcher Braudilio Vinent remained hospitalized yesterday, Friday, at the Saturnino Lora Teaching Clinical Surgical Hospital in Santiago de Cuba, due to a urinary condition, reported the CMKC radio station.
Source: Granma
May 31, 2019
The Cuban Yurisbel Gracial connected his ninth home run of the campaign this Wednesday, contributing to the victory of the SoftBank Falcons over the Orix Buffaloes in the Pacific zone of the Japanese Professional Baseball League.
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May 31, 2019
The poet, musician, balladist and one of the most popular composers of the present day, Cuban Descemer Bueno, will make his debut today in Buenos Aires in a concert that he has put a lot of love into.
Source: Cuba.cu
May 30, 2019
No one can deny the feeling of Cuban spirit that comes from enjoying singer Aymée Nuviola.
Source: El Nuevo Herald
May 30, 2019
The National Council of the Performing Arts has prepared a colloquium in honor of the 90th birthday of Cuban theater director Vicente Revuelta, founder of the Grupo Teatro Estudio and an essential figure in the local theater scene.
Source: Cubadebate
May 29, 2019
The Cuban composer, pianist, and cultural disruptor Chucho Valdés premiered a composition on Saturday night at Bellas Artes in homage to the person who made him a musician: Caridad Amaro, his grandmother, and he corrected the history of written music in popular imagination: it's true, Chucho entered the pantheon by the hand of his father, Bebo Valdés, but to whom he owes his love for sounds and their silences is his grandmother.
Source: Cubadebate
May 29, 2019
Regarding the concerts offered at the Sunset Center in Carmel, the main cultural center of California's central coast, the specialized local critics noted that while Marcos Madrigal enjoys fast sequences and technically difficult passages in any piece, according to the performer himself "his soul rests deeply in the softest passages".
Source: La Jiribilla
May 29, 2019
The prestigious and popular musician Benny Moré is part of the group of the 10 most influential Latin American figures in the hundred years spanning 1921 to 2021.
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May 28, 2019
Idalys Ortiz won the gold medal at the Hohhot, China Judo Grand Prix, confirming her position at the top of the world ranking in the +78 kg division.
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May 28, 2019
The Cuban duo Gente de Zona premiered their fourth studio album last Friday, May 24th, under the title Otra cosa.
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May 27, 2019
The Cuban baseball player Alfredo Despaigne Rodríguez, who plays in the Japanese League with the SoftBank Hawks, surpassed 400 home runs in his sports career last Friday and tied his personal record for a month in the Japanese Professional League (LPJ) by hitting two home runs against the Chiba Lotte Marines.
Source: CubaDebate
May 27, 2019
After having recorded more than 50 CDs and composed hundreds of songs, many of them authentic anthems of Cuban trova and song, Pablo Milanés presents a work of jazz and American standards from all time.
Source: El País
May 26, 2019
Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez will offer on May 31st the 102nd concert of his "Tour through the Neighborhoods," in which he will have as a guest the National Symphonic Orchestra (OSN), announced the organizers today.
Source: Cubadebate
May 26, 2019
THE documentary With Soul in the Land, about the life and work of Jaime Crombet Hernández-Vaquero —who passed away on May 25, 2013— premiered on Saturday, May 25, 2019 at 10:30 in the morning at the Palace of Fine Arts.
Source: Juventud Rebelde
May 25, 2019
Today's premiere in this capital of the work "Mojito con saoco", by renowned Cuban composer Guido López Gavilán, will be the main attraction of the concert by the Cuban-American Youth Orchestra on the occasion of Cubadisco 2019.
Source: CubaSi
May 25, 2019
Words for Salomón: Whoever has read the impressive curriculum of Salomón Gadles Mikowsky might think that this mission of praise should correspond to an academic, or a pianist; but it happens that I am here simply as a Cuban who is grateful for the years of talent and gift—the vocation of service to his people—that this Master of music exercises with generosity; and that right, the right to give thanks from the heart, no hardship can take from me.
Source: Segundacita blog oficial de Silvio Rodríguez
May 25, 2019
Luis Manuel Molina, one of Cuba's most outstanding guitarists and pedagogues whose music inspires you, recently celebrated 40 years of artistic life and his 60th birthday with a concert at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana.
Source: La Jiribilla
May 25, 2019
"Rain and Fire" is Isaac Delgado's most recent album, and it was presented today as a gift to consumers of contemporary Cuban music.
Source: CubaSi
May 25, 2019
The University of the Arts (ISA) presented yesterday the Doctor Honoris Causa in Art to pianist and pedagogue Salomón Gadles Mikowsky, an award he received from the hands of Alexis Seijo, Rector of the prestigious House of Higher Studies The University of the Arts (ISA) presented the title of Doctor Honoris Causa in Art to pianist and pedagogue Salomón Gadles Mikowsky, an award he received from the hands of Alexis Seijo, Rector of the prestigious House of Higher Studies.
Source: Granma
May 24, 2019
Bárbara Llanes will be accompanied by Karla Martínez on piano and by Lester Chio on clarinet, a format called Trío Nueva Habana and constitutes a new project belonging to the Concert Music Center of Cuba's Ministry of Culture.
Source: Bohemia
May 24, 2019
Rubén González was a wise and delicate man; he did not boast of his great musical virtues; he placed the notes in their place, and the soul in each chord.
Source: Granma
May 23, 2019
The Cuban Embassy in Japan has informed that the Japanese government announced the foreign personalities and artists who receive this year 2019, the decoration Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette.
Source: Radio Cadena Habana
May 23, 2019
The gala "Music Unites Us" will take place on May 25 at the Karl Marx Theater for the 55th anniversary of the Empresa de Grabaciones y Ediciones Musicales (EGREM), and as part of the International Cuban Music Fair Cubadisco 2019.
Source: Agencia Cubana de Noticias
May 23, 2019
The Latin Institute of Music (ILM) announced the screening of a new animated series that, among its characters, will feature the renowned Cuban composer, guitarist, and orchestra conductor Leo Brouwer.
Source: Prensa Latina
May 23, 2019
On May 19th, during the presentation of her book "La resina ámbar" at the Coral Gables Library in a commemorative event marking the 124th anniversary of the fall of the Apostle José Martí, the advisor and representative of the UNESCO Culture Center of Puerto Rico presented writer and painter Zaida del Río with recognition from the UNESCO Culture Center and the Golden Pen award from Entre Líneas publishing house, granted by Alfredo A.
Source: YouTube
May 22, 2019
The president of the Havana Film Festival, Iván Giroud, was invited to be part of the jury for the L´Oeil d´or-Documentary Award (Golden Eye Documentary in English) section of the 72nd edition of the Cannes Film Festival.
Source: CubaCine.cult.cu
May 22, 2019
The Cuban singer Leoni Torres and Spanish performer Rosario Flores premiered the official video of their first musical collaboration titled "Se me olvidó quererte" on the main internet platforms.
Source: CubaSi
May 22, 2019
"The good journalist prefers to save the news rather than his life" said Cuban Alfredo Martirena this Tuesday, winner of the Excellence Award in the Press Freedom Cartoon Contest in Canada.
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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.
Source: CubaSi
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.
Source: Ecured, Cubarte
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.
Source: Al bat.com
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
Next Thursday, May 23rd at 2:00 p.
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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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