Cuba celebrates 50 years of electroacoustic music
- Submitted by: manso
- Arts and Culture
- 04 / 03 / 2011
Havana, April 1 : Cuba is all set to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the composition of the first piece of electroacoustic music by a national artiste.
Beginning April 27, Cuba's current musical generation will pay its tribute to Juan Blanco, who began composing electroacoustic music pieces 50 years ago, Prensa Latina news agency reported.
Exponents of this genre such as DJ Ivan Lejardi, who combines techno, deep house and trip hop, jazz musician Yasek Manzano and rocker Ernesto Blanco, will open the series of tributes that would run till March 2012.
Renowned new artistes such as Luz de Cuba, Emilio Pena Leyva and Javier Esteban Alberti will attend the concert at the Nacional Theater in Havana.
The show - titled "Contrastes" - will combine music with other artistic expressions, such as graphic design, visual arts and audio-visual images.--IANS
Source: www.newkerala.com/news/world/fullnews-180467.html
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