Edition 466: From Damiron to Shakespeare
FEBRUARY 10, 2014 · NO COMMENTS
The merengue arrived in Venezuela from the hands of Billo Frómeta, who opened the first set with Caña brava when he debuted at the Roof Garden
Edition 465: Columbus, trumpets and bonche
JANUARY 20, 2014 · NO COMMENTS
The ancestors of the Andean general Rafael Nogales Méndez go back to Christopher Columbus, on whose fourth voyage Captain Diego Méndez came
Edition 464: The Four of Cantinflas
NOVEMBER 29, 2013 · NO COMMENTS
Spanish folk music, more than any other, made use of plucked string instruments, which generate short and rhythmically complex notes.
Edition 463: Appreciating music
NOVEMBER 22, 2013 · NO COMMENTS
Music is an art that is unlike any other, because it is invasive and does not require direct attention like writing or painting. However, its flow is similar to that of words
Edition 462: The maracas of Cuba
NOVEMBER 22, 2013 · NO COMMENTS
Cuban television appeared in 1950 and, in color, in 1958. Regarding the …
Edition 462: The maracas of Cuba
NOVEMBER 15, 2013 · NO COMMENTS
Cuban television appeared in 1950 and, in color, in 1958. With regard to radio, Cuba was the second nation in the world to inaugurate a station (PWX) and the first to broadcast a music concert and present a radio newscast.
Edition 461: From Selena to Oedipus the King
NOVEMBER 8, 2013 · NO COMMENTS
Selena’s name doesn’t say anything around these parts, so maybe someone thinks it’s a shampoo or hand cream
Edition 460: Blacks, guaguancó and sheik
NOVEMBER 1, 2013 · NO COMMENTS
Fifty years before the discovery of the New World there were already black slaves in the kingdoms of Spain and Portugal
Issue 459: Duke Ellington with tips
OCTOBER 25, 2013 · NO COMMENTS
In the middle of the 1930s, when the big American bands were perched on the wagon of swing fever