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Last mentioned in Havana : Cuba
Juan Leovigildo Brouwer Mezquida (born March 1, 1939) in Havana, is a Cuban composer, conductor and guitarist. He is the grandson of Cuban composer Ernestina Lecuona Casado.

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  • Chiesa Nuova Presents Spanish and South American Traditional Folk Dances by ...

    News Source: PRWeb | 9 months ago
    September 11, 2012

    Artistic Director Robert Hutmacher, O.F.M., of Chiesa Nuova invites music lovers to the return of Sator Duo. After a series of concerts in London, Paolo Castellani and Francesco Di

  • Carlos Barbosa-Lima

    News Source: Moreover Silicon Valley | over 1 year ago
    Barbosa-Lima recalls that his father (Manuel Carlos) had hired a music instructor to teach him how to play the guitar. The guitar lessons were then transferred from the father to the son, and the child became known in the neighborhood as a prodigy.
  • Kings of the Dance live up to their lofty title

    News Source: The Orange County Register | over 1 year ago
    Kings of the Dance 2011," one of the highlights of the Segerstrom Center's 25th-anniversary season, is a guilty pleasure. Since its inception in 2006, this evening of bravura dancing has celebrated the beauty, power and sheer kinesthetic thrill of
  • Charles Lloyd / Maria Farantouri: Athens Concert

    News Source: All About Jazz | over 1 year ago
    Greek classical singer Maria Farantouri is herself a musical adventurer and risk taker; over the course of fifty years, she has collaborated with guitarist John Williams , Turkish composer Zulfu Livaneli, Cuban guitarist/composer Leo Brouwer,
  • Controversy over Milanés concert is déjà vu with a few fresh ...

    News Source: Miami Herald | almost 2 years ago
    Pablo Milanes in concert When: 8 p.m...He also criticized the caste system the government maintains, its discrimination against blacks and the Cuban media's self-censorship. Yet, in spite of it all, he said he remains faithful to the socialist system
  • Fort Worth guitar fest performers mix old, new music

    News Source: Fort Worth Star Telegram | almost 2 years ago
    The Fort Worth Guitar Guild's second festival program offered soloist Jeffery McFadden and a duo, John Huston and Richard Todd. McFadden gave a low-key but technically pristine performance. He used music, which always causes some distracting
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    News Source: The New York Times | almost 2 years ago
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    News Source: International Herald Tribune | almost 2 years ago
    The most striking thing about the guitar recital Martha Masters presented on Thursday evening was not her playing though that was satisfyingly fluid so much as her approach to programming. The concert, part of the New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes


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