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1838
Havana Grand Theatre was opened.
17 de Abril de 1838
Most important theater square in Cuba. Numerous artists, dance and opera companies have performed on its stage. It has had several names: Tacón Grand Theater, National Theater and García Lorca Theater. At present it has the Lecuona Hall (concert Hall); García Lorca main hall (venue of the National Ballet of Cuba, the Opera, the Lyric Comedy and the Spanish Dance Ensemble), Imago Hall (exhibition gallery) Alejo Carpentier Hall and Antonín Artaud Hall (theatre halls), Luis Buñuel Hall (video hall) and Lezama Lima (lecture hall).
1915
Professoress and musical activist Carmen Valdés was born.
17 de Abril de 1915
She was born in Havana in April 17, 1915. She studied piano under the guidance of Ramona Sicardo and Alberto Falcón, and, later, Theory in the Municipal Conservatory of Havana. She has dedicated to teach and to spread Cuban music. Her professoral work has covered from elementary school, high school and university to the Amadeo Roldán conservatory. She has published texts on musical learning. Since the settlement of the School for Art Instructors in 1961, she taught there and later became Vice Director of Music in the National School of Art. She has continually worked on divulging music in radio, TV and periodical publishings.
1949
Poet, essay writer, critic and journalist Ramón Guirao died.
17 de Abril de 1949
He was born in La Habana, in 1908, and died in April 17th, 1949. He was founder member of the Society of Afro Cuban Studies and the first to deal with the black theme in Cuban poetry with: “Bailadora de rumba”, published in the Diario de la Marina newspaper in 1928. Guirao wrote a volume of black poems: "Bongó", and the anthologies Órbita de la poesía afrocubana and Cuentos y leyendas negros de Cuba. he is also author of critical essays on Juan Francisco Manzano and other black and mulatto poets from slavery years. When he died he he left unedited books on that theme.
1958
Rita Montaner, one of the greatest Cuban artists from Radio, TV, film and theatre died
17 de Abril de 1958
She was born in the municipality of Guanabacoa, Havana City, in May 14th, 1900, and died in Havana, at the age of 58, in April 17th, 1958. “La Única”, ("The Unique") as one of the greatest Cuban artists from Radio, TV, film and theatre was known by the Cuban people.
She studied piano in the Peyrellade Conservatory, and being 13 years old she won gold medal. In 1917 she graduated from piano, singing and harmony, and then she performed several benefit concerts. Although a great piano career was foretold to her, she preferred singing. In October 10th, 1922, when radio broadcasting was officially inaugurated in Cuba, from the building at Águila and Dragones Streets, she became the first female voice to be heard through that just-born media. From then on she linked to the most prestigious Cuban musicians and artists on different stages, Europa and América knew her art.
In 1928 he went for the first time to Paris, performing in the Olimpia and in the Palace; she is hired to substitute Raquel Mayer. A year later she performed in the show of Josephine Baker. She came back to Cuba in 1930, and next year she goes to the the United States of America hired by M. Jolson for singing in Wonder Bar. In 1935 she premiered in the Teatro Principal de la Comedia a show by Gilberto Valdés, performing “Oggere”, “Bembo”, “Tambó” and “Sangre africana”. In 1935 she is proclaimed Queen of the Radio. In 1939 she played the leading actress, together with the most important Cuban actor from those years: Alberto González Rubio, in the film El romance del Palmar directed by Ramón Peón. In 1948 she was the leading actress of the Cuban film María la 0 and in 1949 she began a season with Bola de Nieve, in Mulgoba cabaret, and later she worked in Tropicana, for nine years. In 1954 she made another Cuban film with Ramón Peón: La única.
She was more than a lyrical theatre singer, having a wide performing range. In the zarzuela Niña Rita she sang the tango congo “Mamá Inés” by Ernesto Lecuona and Eliseo Grenet, in 1927, and in 1955 she played the leading role in the operas The Medium and The Telephone by the Italian Gian Carlo Menotti. From one edge to another, besides her labour in radio, film theatre and TV, La Única (The Unique) -as she was also known in his top success- was able to perform delicate songs, such as “Canción azul” and “Siboney”, both by Ernesto Lecuona recorded by her in 1928 or sing a zestful “El manisero” ("The Peanut Vendor") composed by Moisés Simons. Behind her she left a great piano career a wide trial of true fame and sincere people´s love.
1976
The Playa Giron Museum was inaugurated.
17 de Abril de 1976
This small but significant museum located at Playa Girón was inaugurated on April 17, 1976. It is meant to reflect the heroic fight by Cuban people against the invasion of the Bay of Pigs which was finally defeated on April 19 1961.
It exhibit photographs of militiamen and members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces and the National Police who died in this military action, which rapidly disarticulated invaders by the quick action in less than 72 hours.
Likewise, it displays weapons and objects belonging to the antirevolutionary exiles, as well as aspects closely related to the work of the Revolution at the Ciénaga de Zapata.
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