Septeto Santiaguero celebrates second Grammy award
The concert offered the day before by the Septeto Santiaguero in one of the main squares of Cuban popular music, celebrated the recent obtaining of its second Grammy award and fulfilled a promise with its followers.
At the intersection of Carretera del Morro and Calle Tres, considered by many to be the ‘thermometer’ of orchestras in the country, the musicians shared with audiences who are aware of the group’s successful career and with artists who collaborated on A mí qué – tribute to the Cuban classics, the winning album. According to Prensa Latina, the band’s director, Fernando Dewar, thanked Santiago’s authorities for the opportunity to make this massive presentation as part of the program for the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, which will be commemorated in the Hero City (Santiago de Cuba) on January 1st.
Cuban music added to festivities for the triumph of the Revolution
A variety of musical proposals make up the program scheduled by the Cuban Music Institute for the end of the year and the anniversary of the triumph of the Revolution, the institution announced in a press conference.
The activities include concerts, theoretical events and traditional spaces such as the day of the triumph Cuba Va (“Cuba Goes On”). In the center of the celebrations is Havana, which comes in 2019 to its 500th foundation anniversary, so that all municipalities will host planned performances of national orchestras, dance groups and children’s shows. One of the most eagerly awaited spaces is the concert of the National Symphony Orchestra with compositions by the musicians Juan Formell and Adalberto Álvarez. Singing, activities dedicated to children and presentations of the Concert Bands complete the program of activities foreseen for the closing of 2018 on the Island.
Abel González Melo’s work, Premiere in Sancti Spíritus
The conflicts that can be generated with the destructuring of a current Cuban family mark the development of Adentro, a work by Abel González Melo that yesterday and today is presented in Sancti Spíritus Cabotín Teatro and Los Impertinentes, now under the direction of Roger Fariñas.
According to Radio Enciclopedia, the Casa del Teatro is the venue for the staging in which the renowned critic and advisor Roger Fariñas bets, for the first time, for the direction of a project that he and González Melo himself “dream” for some time. Fariñas told the Sancti Spititus press that this is a piece that had its world premiere in the year 2012, in the North American city of Chicago; however, although it won the National Dramaturgy Prize José Jacinto Milanés, in 2005, it has never been premiered in Cuba.
Creators from overseas will give prestige to disgn biennial in Cuba
Creators from various countries will converge at the second Havana Design Biennial, to be held from May 20 to 26, 2019. The National Design Office of Cuba launched the official call for this second edition, under the slogan Design Beyond Form.
According to the report, since its emergence in 2016, the biennial has become a multiple space for exchange and promotion on the importance of this manifestation for personal and social growth. In this edition, the event will be held in various spaces of the Cuban capital, with exhibitions, displays, catwalks and tours on Cuban and foreign design, while the Palacio de Convenciones of this city will host the theoretical event of the event.
Winter Readings in Ciego de Ávila
Reading, that superb path to knowledge, summoned various publics from Avila to a event that includes the presentation and sale of local, national and universal literature, an activity organized by the AHS and the Centro Provincial del Libro in Ciego de Ávila.
The writer and member of the AHS in charge of the activity, Eduardo Pino González, explained to the ACN that Winter Readings was a necessary option to bid farewell to the year dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the Triumph of the Cuban Revolution.
The program also included presentations, promotions and sales of some 100 titles in areas of the Juan Antonio Márquez bookstore and the Casa del Joven Creador (“House of the Young Creator”), in addition to narrative readings, poetic recitals and oral narratives.
(Taken from Radio Rebelde in Spanish)
Written by Radio Grito de Baire
