Culture

A female ghost dressed in red appears before a lonely man sitting on the Havana seawall. They talk and dive into the water. People ascend, stairways are lowered, they go into the sky, traveling, and swimming among the clouds, by day or night.
They fight (uncontrolled) for a position inside an old car. The city is presented as a seething mass of people, desires, customs that occur again and again.

The witch (Laura Alonso) is capable of anything to stay the “fairest of them all.” In this Cuban rendition, she gives a poison guava to Snow White to send her into a deep and endless sleep, at least until the prince arrives and undoes the spell with a kiss.

A Concert for Snow White is performed by children with the support of their mothers and fathers, whose presence is felt in the atmosphere, organization and discipline within the theater.

Enrique Pla is a man of few words but of a very musical ear. Since he was just a kid, he picked up on the melodies produced from his sister’s piano, and very soon earned the nickname “little drummer boy,” because he would improvise on that instrument for hours on end. He invented his own unique drum to begin his journey through the world of music, that of Cuban percussion. To celebrate his 60 years of life, Havana’s Museum of Music decided to pay him homage inviting several of his fellow musicians and friends.

Roy didn’t come alone to Cubadisco, the island’s recording industry’s most important annual event. He came with friends to receive the Honor Prize for his years of music. Tito Auger and the group Asi Somos were his guests at the Pablo de la Torriente Brau Cultural Center in the capital.