Havana’s jazz lovers had to plan their evenings meticulously to be able to enjoy as many of the performances staged at different venues and times around the city as possible. We report at the conclusion of Jazz Plaza 2013. (26 photos)
Read MoreThe prominent Dominican jazz pianist Michel Camilo announced he will record in February in Spain his contribution to the soundtrack of a film dedicated to the famous Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona, reported Prensa Latina.
Read MoreLa Partida (“The Last Match”), a film that touches on a number of controversial issues, was screened at the 35th Havana Film Festival held in the Cuban capital the first half of December. “I beg to differ with those who see a portrait of contemporary Cuba in my film,” said its director, Antonio Hens, during his interview with HT.
Read MoreThere are people who nourish their worldview by reading the international press and absorbing and analyzing a patchwork of ideas, forces, events, and the people who exemplify them. Others go to literature to understand their time and place. These latter especially, will appreciate El país de las mujeres, for the reality as well as the dreams it contemplates. Book review by Margaret Randall.
Read MoreMy expectations were not high when I accepted the invitation of an old out-of-town friend to see the Rockettes’ Christmas show. But once there, the cultural shock made my critical faculties go on overdrive as if they had been put on steroids.
Read MoreThe latest album of Cuban pianist Roberto Fonseca, “Yo” (I) , is among the 10 best musical productions of 2013 in the U.S., according to a survey by The Washington Post. The musician announced on its Web site several tours during March and April next year, in Australia , New Zealand , Hong Kong , France and the UK.
Read MoreThe music of Arturo O’Farrill (from the US) and the young Cuban pianist Harold López Nussa, will open Jazz Plaza 2013 at Havana’s Mella Theater . The festival runs through Sunday, December 22.
Read MorePaul Seaquist, manager of the man who is considered the century’s best dancer, speaks to us about Vladmir Malakhov’s recent visit to Cuba in an exclusive interview for Havana Times. “We’ve decided to return and to continue contributing to the arts in Holguin,” he told us.
Read MoreThe movie “Heli”, a controversial love story between a young girl and a young policeman set in a background of violence and drug trafficking in Mexico, won first prize for fiction at the this year’s Havana Film Festival. “I try to film what bothers me or catches my attention,” said the director Amat Escalante. “It’s the reality around me that I see, I touch ,” he added .
Read MoreDiego Gutierrez belongs to a group of Cuban folk musicians that some refer to as the “lost generation.” So called, perhaps, because of the unfair neglect of the media or the consequences of internal situations decided by the country’s cultural policies, their music, undeniably rewarding, has nevertheless treated us to some of the most important moments in recent Cuban music history.
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