US-Cuba Coral Symposium 2012 joins choirs from Cuba and US in Havana
- Submitted by: lena campos
- Arts and Culture
- 05 / 30 / 2012
Cuban, U.S. choirs joined their art here to give a varied repertoire of national and international pieces during an evening within the exchange program between directors and vocal groups of both nations.
As part of the US-Cuba Coral Symposium 2012 until May 30, the Cuban National Choir and the Cardinal Singer of the U.S. University of Louisville, Kentucky, on Monday staged a concert reaffirming the gradual rapprochement of the two countries in the artistic sphere in recent years.
In the hall of the Oratory of San Felipe Neri, the U.S. group, led by Ken Hatteberg, presented classic and contemporary works, including pieces by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525/6-1594), Henry Purcell (1659-1695), Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), Georg Schumann (1866-1952) and Frank Martin (1890-1974).
Cardinal Singer also included in its program the Song of celebration, by the teacher and guitarist Leo Brower, one of the greatest Cuban contemporary composers.
This binational seminar will also include presentation of other major Cuban groups such as Vocal Leo, Sine nomine, Exaudi, the Matanzas Chamber Choir, Schola Cantorum Coralina and the Polyphonic Choir of Havana.
Sponsored by National Center of Concert Music (Cuba) and the American Choral Directors Association, the initiative brought to Cuba more than twenty U.S. choirs, as a result of relationships that began some years ago and will continue in the future, told the press authorities on both sides.
Fuente: Prensa Latina
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