Musical Pays Tribute to Santiago de Cuba
A musical play was premiered at the Hero City’s Dolores Hall, dedicated to the 500th anniversary of the foundation of Santiago de Cuba Village and the 62nd of the assault to barracks Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Cespedes.
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The title is Caribbean Sounds Suite and it was premiered within the framework of Santiago Concert, an event that has been held in this city since May 5 so as to promote young talents of chamber music.
Daniel Guzman Loyzaga, its author, told AIN that besides those historic dates, the musical is dedicated to the 60th anniversary of Madrigalista choir, 20th of Magic Sax saxophone quartet and 56th of the opening of Esteban Salas conservatoire.
Masterfully played by the Junior Symphonic Orchestra of this institution, as well as some local music professors and artists, the performance became an exchange of experiences with a trumpet player and a trombonist from the United States.
“Both musicians are outstanding and acclaimed professors at the northern nation, so we’re proud to have them attending the event and I was personally pleased by their participation in this premiere as solo players”, Guzman Loyzaga said.
“It’s not a popular piece and it has complex sonorities, since I tried to create a programmatic and descriptive music in an effort to back up the feelings and emotions of the theme line I’m suggesting”, he pointed out.
“As for the first part, I named it Origins, Struggle and Hope”, he explained, “as it evokes the genesis of Caribbean people and the influences of aborigines, whose customs marked the nationality and culture of the countries in the region.”
“In that fragment I illustrated the horror of the conquest, all the punishment, tortures and massacres carried out against the first inhabitants of these lands. Feelings is the title of the second section and, although it shows certain sadness and nostalgia, it suggests happiness”, Guzman Loyzaga underscored.
“Our history is made up of that symbiosis, so we hope that Caribbean Sounds Suite is acclaimed by the public, as that’s our goal”, Guzman Loyzaga added.
