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1893
Pianist and orchestra director Eliseo Grenet was born.
12 de Junio de 1893
He was born in Havana on June 12th, 1893 and died on December 4th, 1950. When he was five years old he began to study piano, at the age of nine he staged in a school party his musical play La geografía física, and at the age of thirteen played the piano in La Caricatura Cinema entertaining silent movies. At the age of sixteen he conducted the orchestra of the Havana Politeama. In 1926 he toured the island heading the orchestra of the Arquímedes Pous Company.
Later he went to different nations of America with a group of Cuban artists and musicians. In 1932, just few months after having returned, he had to leave the country because dictator Gerardo Machado´s henchmen were after him. He came back to Havana one year later, when the dictatorship was overthrown. In 1936 he went to New York where he developed a positive labor spreading Cuban music; there he intoduced the Conga. Then, he travelled to Spain and other European centers and shortly afterwards he came back.
He created music for some films: Escándalo de estrellas, Conga bar, Estampas coloniales, Milonga de arrabal and many theatre plays: Niña Rita, La canción del mendigo, Bohemia, Como las golondrinas, La virgen morena, El submarino cubano, as well as Nicolás Guillén poems, Motivos de son. In 1948 he won the First Prize in the Cuban Song Contest with “El Sitierito”.
Within his work outstands the danzones: “La Mora”, “Si me pides el pescao”, “Si muero en la Carretera”, “Papa Montero”; the songs: “Las perlas de tu boca”, “Tabaco verde”, “Lamento esclavo”, los pregones: “Rica pulpa”, “El tamalero”; the tangos congos: “Espabílate”, “Mama Inés”; the sones: “Facundo”, “Lamento cubano”, “Negro bembón”; and, specially, the sucu-sucu (his recreation from Isle of Pines folklore): “Felipe Blanco” and “Domingo Pantoja”.
1922
Outstanding Cuban poet Adolfo Martí Fuentes was born.
12 de Junio de 1922
He was born on June 12, 1922 in Galicia, but very soon he became a Cuban citizen, he died on June 10, 2002. Martí Fuentes was known as a renovator of decima (ten-verse stanza of Spanish origin) and as a prince of espinela. His work in verses embraced diverse meters. Apart from his work as a poet he was also a tecaher, journalist and diplomat. Since his young age, he was committed to the cause of Cuban social emancipation.
In 1971, Martí Fuentes won an important prize in the 26 de Julio Competition sponsored by the Revolutionary Armed Forces with his book “Alrededor del punto”.
He later wrote important books like Puntos cardinales, Contrapunto, La hora en punto, El árbol del retorno and Júbilo de enero.
Part of his work as an essayist and critic was reflected in his work “Points of view”. He also wrote for children and in this respect his work entitled Book of Gabriela is worth mentioning.
1972
Journalist and writer César Rodríguez Expósito died.
12 de Junio de 1972
He was born in Rodas, Las Villas, in July 10th, 1904 and died in Havana, in June 12th, 1972. He studied Elementary School in Havana. In 1923 he began working journalism as a reporter in Cuba, Libertad, El Día, La Lucha, La Noche, El Imparcial, Heraldo de Cuba, Diario de la Marina, Excelsior, El País, Información and Avance newspapers, where he was in charge of a section dealing with just published Cuban books. He got several journalistic awards such as "Varona" (1945).
He attended national and foreign journalistic congresses, joined the Reporters Association, the National College of Journalists and other societies, like the Hispanic American Institution of Culture, and the Playwright Society. Writer of Comedies, created numerous dramas where he became aware of social problems and hipocresy of ruling customs. Among his plays are: Huyendo de la verdad, Los muertos viven, Los que tienen culpa, Adulterio ocasional, La moral del divorcio, Violación, Multitudes. Besides, he is author of single-dramas: Luz en la sombra, La querida, Yo lo maté and Fusilamiento.
Permanency of Finlay´s Doctrines to the XV International Congress on History of Medicine was written with Horacio Abascal in 1957. César González Expósito was Secretary of the Cuban Society of History of Medicine and historian of Cuban Ministry of Public Health, where he was the director of the “Cuadernos de Historia de Salud Pública”. From 1962 he was Vice Director of the “Carlos J. Finlay” Historical Museum of Medical Sciences, from the Academy of Sciences of Cuba. He was also the compiler of the work Bicentenario de Tomás Romay: 1764-1849. He kept working in the museum until his death.
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