Cuba and the Significance of Music
August 15, 2021 | 12:00pm
We invite you to watch the rebroadcast of the 2018 Miami International GuitART Festival’s Tribute to Leo Brouwer. Acclaimed in his youth as one of the all-time great performers of the classical guitar, the Cuban composer is an Honorary Member of UNESCO and is recognized worldwide as the guitar’s most outstanding living composer for the instrument and as a pioneer in the fusion of musical styles and genres.
Program:
Concierto Elegiaco (Concerto No. 3) for guitar and orchestra (1986)
FIU Symphony Orchestra
Javier José Mendoza, conductor
Eren Sualp, guitar
La Huida de los Amantes por el Valle de los Ecos (1981)
from "El Decameron Negro"
Celso Cano, guitar and FIU alumnus