June 2, 2019
The distinguished Cuban actor in film, radio, television and theater, Salvador Wood, National Television Prize for a Lifetime of Work, passed away this Saturday at the age of 90.
Source: Cubadebate
June 2, 2019
Cuban saxophonist and clarinetist Paquito D'Rivera and Paraguayan guitarist Berta Rojas shared the stage again this Saturday, May 25th in a concert organized by the Miami Classical Guitar Society.
Source: El Nuevo Herald
June 2, 2019
Cuban prima ballerina assoluta 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 honored with the Lucía de Honor Award.
Source: Cubadebate
June 1, 2019
The former pitcher Braudilio Vinent continued to be hospitalized yesterday Friday at the Saturnino Lora Teaching Clinical Surgical Hospital in Santiago de Cuba for a urinary condition, disclosed by radio station CMKC.
Source: Granma
May 31, 2019
Cuban Yurisbel Gracial hit his ninth home run of the season this Wednesday, contributing to the victory of the SoftBank Hawks over the Orix Buffaloes in the Pacific zone of the Japanese Professional Baseball League.
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May 31, 2019
The poet, musician, ballad singer and one of the most popular composers of today, 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 Cubanness 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 tribute to the 90th anniversary of Cuban theater director Vicente Revuelta, founder of the Teatro Estudio Group and an essential figure in the local theater scene.
Source: Cubadebate
May 29, 2019
Cuban composer, pianist, and cultural disruptor Chucho Valdés premiered a composition this Saturday night at Bellas Artes in homage to the woman who made him a musician: Caridad Amaro, his grandmother, and corrected the history of written music in popular imagination: true, Chucho entered the olympus by the hand of his father, Bebo Valdés, but the one to whom he owes his love for sounds and their silences is his grandmother.
Source: Cubadebate
May 29, 2019
Regarding the concerts held at the Sunset Center in Carmel, the main cultural center on California's central coast, local specialized critics noted that while Marcos Madrigal excels at 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 Grand Prix de Judo in Hohhot, China, thereby consolidating 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 24, under the title Otra cosa.
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May 27, 2019
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 Japan's Professional Baseball League (NPB) by connecting two home runs against the Chiba Lotte Marines.
Source: CubaDebate
May 27, 2019
After having recorded more than 50 CDs and having composed hundreds of songs, many of them authentic anthems of Cuban trovadorismo and song, Pablo Milanés presents a work of jazz and timeless American standards.
Source: El País
May 26, 2019
Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez will perform on May 31st the 102nd concert of his "Tour through the neighborhoods", in which he will have as a guest the National Symphony Orchestra (OSN), the organizers announced 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 Palacio de Bellas Artes.
Source: Juventud Rebelde
May 25, 2019
The premiere today in this capital of the work "Mojito con saoco," by renowned Cuban composer Guido López Gavilán, will be the main attraction of the Cuban-American Youth Orchestra concert 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 generosity –the vocation of service to his people– that this Master of music exercises with such generosity; and that right, the right to give thanks from the heart, is not something any lack can take from me.
Source: Segundacita blog oficial de Silvio Rodríguez
May 25, 2019
Luis Manuel Molina, one of Cuba's guitarists and pedagogues who inspires you with his music, recently celebrated his 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
"Lluvia y fuego" 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) yesterday awarded the Honorary Doctorate in Art to pianist and pedagogue Salomón Gadles Mikowsky, an honor he received from Alexis Seijo, Rector of the prestigious House of Higher Learning The University of the Arts (ISA) awarded the title of Honorary Doctorate in Art to pianist and pedagogue Salomón Gadles Mikowsky, an honor he received from Alexis Seijo, Rector of the prestigious House of Higher Learning.
Source: Granma
May 24, 2019
Bárbara Llanes will be accompanied by Karla Martínez on piano and 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 put the notes in their place, and his soul in every 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, Rays of Gold 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 Musical Recordings and Editions Company (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 premiere of a new animated series that will feature, among its characters, 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 for 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 a recognition award from the UNESCO Culture Center and the Golden Pen award from the publishing house Entre Líneas, 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 section of the 72nd edition of the Cannes Film Festival.
Source: CubaCine.cult.cu
May 22, 2019
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," expressed this Tuesday Cuban Alfredo Martirena, winner of the Excellence Award in the Cartoon Contest on Freedom of the Press in Canada.
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May 21, 2019
The 23rd International Cuban Music Fair Cubadisco pays tribute today to a paradigmatic figure of vocal performance on this continent, Benny Moré (1919-1963), on the centennial 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 made 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 event for the centennial of documentary filmmaker Santiago Álvarez began in the month of 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
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
Cuba's top road cyclist Arlenis Sierra achieved two podiums this past weekend at the fifth edition of the Tour of California and finished third in the points classification, in what was her third participation in the prestigious cycling event, which counts toward 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
Conductor Max Bragado-Darman led the Monterey Symphony in a concert of three popular masterpieces at the Sunset Center in Carmel, and, as expected, it was a great success, as each piece received a standing ovation.
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May 18, 2019
Distinguished pianist and composer Aldo López-Gavilán will return to the Teatro Martí in the capital on Sunday, June 2nd 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 event organizers.
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May 17, 2019
Recorded in New York and Havana, Cuban singer Isaac Delgado's new album is now available in the iTunes digital store and will arrive on other 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 renowned pianist Huberal Herrera will celebrate his 90th birthday 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 "train of Cuban music".
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May 16, 2019
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May 16, 2019
Zaida del Río, one of the most prominent 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 Critics of New York (ACE) has just awarded the ACE PRIZE 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
Cuban pianist Marcos Madrigal expressed his satisfaction for 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 on Prado, in support of the LGBT community.
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