Saturday, September 28, 2013

PLEnglish.com: 'Leo Brouwer Festival Highlights Cuba's Oldest Music'

Esteban Salas



Leo Brouwer (b. 1939) is an Afro-Cuban composer, guitarist and conductor who is featured at AfriClassical.com.  Above photos of Maestro Brouwer are from Cuba Absolutely


V Festival Leo Brouwer de Música de Cámara
(Fifth Leo Brouwer Chamber Music Festival)

Santiago de Cuba, Sep 25 (Prensa Latina) The oldest musical heritage of Santiago de Cuba was highlighted today by researcher Miriam Escudero as a relevant part of Cuban culture related to the first metropolitan cathedral and treasured for four centuries on this island.
During a confererence as part of the 5th Leo Brouwer Chamber Music Festival, Escudero, who is also director of Musical Heritage at the Havana City Historian's Office, discussed the results of 15 years of research on that musical treasure linked to the churches in Cuba.

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