Cuban Symphony Orchestra Begins Season and Celebrates Its 65th Anniversary
The National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba announces the start of its 2024-2025 season with a concert featuring Cuban music, celebrating the 65th anniversary of its founding at the Covarrubias Hall of the National Theater of Cuba.
This special presentation by the country’s leading symphonic ensemble will take place on Sunday, September 22, at 11:00 a.m., as reported by the Cuban Institute of Music.
The selected repertoire includes works by composers Jorge López Marín, Amadeo Roldán, Alejandro García Caturla, and Gonzalo Roig, featuring soprano Milagros de los Ángeles and tenor Bernardo Lichilín as soloists, with Maestro Igor Ernesto Corcuera Cáceres conducting, who was recently appointed as the deputy director of the institution.
Continuing the symphonic tradition initiated in 1910 by Guillermo Tomás and the Havana Symphony and Philharmonic Orchestras, conducted by Gonzalo Roig and Pedro Sanjuán, respectively, the National Symphony Orchestra was founded on October 7, 1959, and gave its first concert on November 11, 1960, under the baton of maestros Enrique González Mántici and Manuel Duchesne Cuzán. Today, it serves as the governing body of the National Philharmonic of Cuba.
Program:
- Theme for a March of Sculptures by Jorge López Marín
- Three Cuban Dances by Alejandro García Caturla
- Three Little Poems by Amadeo Roldán
- Prologue, Exit of Cecilia, Contradanza, and Grand Duo from the zarzuela Cecilia Valdés by Gonzalo Roig.
Translated by Luis E. Amador Dominguez
