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1823
Lawyer José Ramón Betancourt was born.
17 de Octubre de 1823
He was born in October 17th, 1823 and died on June 23rd, 1890. He spent his childhood in Camagüey, where he studied elementary school in the Escolapios Priests and was pupil of Philosophy and Latin. He moved to Havana and studied Laws in the San Carlos Seminar. In 1847 he graduated as Licentiate in Civil and Canonic Laws, and Lawyer conferred by the Audiencia de Puerto Príncipe. In that city he was appointed General Attorney Syndic of the Town Hall.
In 1851 he was banished to Spain because of his links with anexionist groups acting in Camagüey. He returned to Havana in 1856. He was director of he Artistic and Literary Lyceum. He was appointed syndic of Havana Town Hall with the rank of Lieutenant Major. In 1868 he moved to Europe because of the represion lashed against Carlos Manuel de Cespedes uprising. He travelled along Italy, France and Spain. In the last one he was appointed Deputy to Courts by Puerto Rico. Through this position he denounced slave trade and made public the really serious political and social situation of Cuba and Puerto Rico.
In 1879 he was appointed deputy to the Spanish Courts by Camagüey. Thanks to his efforts the Banco Agrícola (Agriculture Bank) and the High School Institute of his hometown were created. He was elected Senator of the Kingdom by the Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País (Economic Society of Freinds of the Country) of Cuba and Puerto Rico.
He collaborated in La Gaceta and El Fanal (Camagüey) and in the Revista de Cuba and the Revista Geográfica Comercial (Madrid).
Among his works are: Una feria de la caridad en 183...; Cuento camagüeyano, Cartera de viaje, Las dos banderas. Apuntes históricos sobre la insurrección en Cuba. Cartas al Exmo. Sr. Ministro de Ultramar. Soluciones para Cuba, Prosa de mis versos, Discursos y manifiestos políticos, 1887. He wrote under the pseudonyms of: El estudiante and Las dos banderas ("The Two Flags").
1851
Writer José Zacarías González del Valle died
17 de Octubre de 1851
He was born on November 5, 1820 and died in Seville Spain, on October 17th, 1851. He made use of pseudonyms: El ecléctico, Otro y Tulio. He studied in the San Carlos Seminar. He graduated as Ph. Bachelor (1834), in Laws (1837) and in Sacred Canons (1838). He litentiated in Philosophy ín 1838. Tha very year the la Patriotic Society awarded his «Memoria sobre la educación». ("Memory on Education"). His first novel Recuerdos del cólera, (Cholera Memoires) also dates back to 1838. In 1839 he Litentiated in Laws and prsned to oppositions in the Chair of Aristothelic Text in the University of Havana. Later he was provisionally in charge of it. In 1842 he travelled to Spain and became Lawyer in Madrid .He visited France. In 1847 he got the Chair of Physics in the University of Havana in 1847.
He collaborated in La Siempreviva, La Flor de Mayo, La Cartera Cubana Memorias de la Sociedad Patriótica, Gaceta de Puerto Príncipe, Faro Industrial de La Habana, El Álbum, El Plantel, El Prisma, Diario de La Habana, El Artista, Noticioso y Lucero. His famous polemic with José de la Luz y Caballero on Ecclecticism took place on the Diario de La Habana pages (oct., 1839). He joined the circle of intellectuals who gahred around Domingo Del Monte. He ocassionally cultivated literary críticism At the end of his life, phthisical, he moved to Spain and was appointed Secretary of His Majesty.
1973
Composer Ofelio Guevara died
17 de Octubre de 1973
He was born in Santiago de Cuba in April 7th, 1914 and died in Havana in October 17th, 1973. Brother of Walfrido Guevara, with whom he made a duo, writing the lyrics of songs such as: “No quiero matarte”, “La canción del borracho” and “No puedo perdonarte”. Author of the song: “Aleida” and of other songs and boleros.
1987
The First International Festival of Lyrical Art in Havana inaugurated.
17 de Octubre de 1987
On October 17, 1987 the first International Festival of Lyrical Art in Havana, in which the world premiere of the Opera "Ernest Hemingway” by Russian composer Yuri Kasarián took place, was inaugurated.
This was the first modern opera performed in Cuba. Written in contemporary language, it was structurally divided in a foreword that reflected in a symbolic way the pacifism and humanism of Hemingway, and two acts with seven scenes, by means of which passages of the celebrated writer's life were remembered.
In this festival there was also a revival, six decades after its premiere, of the Cuban opera " El caminante” (The walker), by Eduardo Sánchez de Fuentes, who is also the author was of the habaneras “ Tú” (You) and " Corazón” (Heart), well known musical creations.
The first International Festival of Lyrical Art proved the maturity of the lyrical genre in Cuba since it presented the existent richness and variety in the country.
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