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1906
Composer, trombonist and instrumentist José Claro Fumero was born.
12 de Agosto de 1906
He was born on July 12, 1906 and died in Havana in 1977.
Disciple of the Belgian Oscar Verweire, conductor of Matanzas Music Band, who trained hin in the saxhorn. He joined Narciso Velasco typical orchestra, later he joined Aniceto DÃaz Orchestra, an later the Rafael Somavilla, Sr. Orchestra. Author of the boleros: Mi amor, mi fe y mi ilusión, Aquella mujer, of the conga: Y a mi que?, and of the band compositions: Un juguete, Pass silencio and Los CarabalÃes. He composed some danzones.
1976
The piano, theory and sol-fa teacher Ernestina Cabaleiro Cervantes passed away.
12 de Agosto de 1976
Ernestina Cabaleiro Cervantes was born on November 4, 1896 and died on August 12, 1976, in Havana. She stood out in the Cuban musical world as piano, theory and sol-fa teacher. Initially, she studied piano with important Havanan teachers and in the Municipal Conservatory of Havana.
In 1914, she won a scholarship to study in Germany, but she could not go to that country because the First World War broke out.
In Havana, Ernestina Cabaleiro performed diverse concerts, many of them next to the pianist José Echanez.
For many years, she was a teacher of Municipal Conservatory of Music and collaborated in the formation of several generations of Cuban musicians, an example is Ignacio Bola de Nieve Villa.
2003
Intellectual Noel Navarro died.
12 de Agosto de 2003
He was born in Manacas in December 30th, 1931 and died in August 12th, 2003. His literary work began in Camagüey in the 1950´s, where he also linked to the July 26th, Revolutionary Movement. Then he has already published his story "El hombre y el perro" in Carteles magazine in 1955, plus other stories and chronicles in local diaries and magazines, and in his archives are kept several unedited novels.
In 1960 he was one of the organizers of the First Meeting of Intellectuals supporting the Cuban Revolution, held in Camagüey. Also in 1961 he participated in the First Congress of Writers and Artists and in the constitution of the UNEAC. Ediciones R awarded his novel Los dÃas de nuestra angustia, he won the Ediciones Granma Award, in 1967, with his novel Los caminos de la noche, a mention in the UNEAC´s Cirilo Villaverde contest with El plano inclinado, whose award was conferred to him in the 1970 summon by Zona de silencio. He won the Casa de las Américas Award with his best collection of stories, La huella del pulgar and the Dolores Medio Narrative Award, from Asturias, Spain, by El asedio. He published a dozen of novels, two volumes of stories, dozens of essays, studies and prologues. Also hundred of articles, chronicles and reviews. Among his unedited materials there was, at least, a poem book, and in the 1970´s he wrote for the MINAZ (Ministry of Sugar Industry of Cuba) eight volumes on the complex Cuban sugar process that were never published, but that effort allowed him to write his awarded testimony Vida de Marcial Ponce. Some of his works were made public in Eastern Europe, Japan and China, as well as in Arab countries.
Journalist, settler of the UPEC, among other functions he was vicedirector and director of "Revolución y Cultura" magazine; Literature Vicepresident of UNEAC (Association of Writers and Artists of Cuba) from 1977 to 1988.
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