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1874
Flutist Juan Francisco "Tata" Pereira was born.
21 de Agosto de 1874
Flutist Juan Francisco, "Tata", Perera was born in Matanzas on August 21, 1874 and died in May 17th, 1933. At the age of fourteen he started his musical studies in Havana and two years laters his debut took place in the Convento de Santa Teresa. He was disciple of professor Luciano Raluy, played saxhorn in Santa Cecilia and Fire Department Music Bands.
In 1896 he joined the Cuban Liberator Army where he ranked in the Regimiento Tiradores de Maceo (Shooters of Maceo Regiment), and arranged a music band, with Chencho Cruz, that resounded in the very battlefield. During the Republic he founded the Havana Police Band, later Municipal Band. In 1914 he started the making, for the first time in Cuba, of pianola music paper rolls.He won the First Prize in contest sponsored by Havana City Hall. During the 1930´s he was President of the Sociedad de Autores Libres (Society of Free Authors).
Along 1900 - 1910 "Tata" Pereira conducted a Charanga type orchestra in which he protruded as flutist. He composed danzones and made arrangements for his orchestra.
1948
Flutist Luis Bayard was born.
21 de Agosto de 1948
He was born in Santiago deCuba, in August 21st, 1948. Piper. He studied elementary level in the GarcÃa Caturla and Amadeo Roldán Havana conservatories, and his medium level in the National School of Art. Later on he studied in the Weimar, Conservatory in the former German Democratic Republic, where he graduated in 1974. He has performed as soloist with chamber groups and with the National Symphonic Orchestra and the Symphonic Orchestra of Camagüey, playing for the first time Cuban and foreign composers' works, mainly within the contemporary line. It was flute professor in the Instituto Superior de Arte (Higher Studies Art Institute)
1956
Gerardo Castellano GarcÃa passed away.
21 de Agosto de 1956
Gerardo Castellano GarcÃa was born on October 21, 1879, in Key West, United States and died on August 21, 1956 in Havana. With his work Panorama histórico he won in 1936 the First Prize in the national competition of the Ministry of Education.
He was son of the Commander of the Liberation Army Gerardo Castellano Lleonart.
He took his first studies in his native city, and at the same time he worked in a cigar factory. He came to Cuba in 1899 with his family. Here he took piano and violin lessons. In 1900, he was appointed in a modest position in the General Treasury of the Republic, later Ministry of Treasury, where he worked until his retirement.
He was a member of the Academy of History, the Geographical Society of Cuba, and other Cuban and foreign cultural institutions. He collaborated with different publications, like El Diario de Cuba, El Mundo Cubano, Revista Bimestre Cubano, Bohemia, as well as in others in Guanabacoa, where he lived. He used the pseudonym of Gerardo Casiol.
1959
Writer José Machado Hernández died.
21 de Agosto de 1959
He was born in Manzanillo, Oriente in May 17th, 1901 and died in Guanabacoa, Havana in August 21st, 1959. He studied High School in Santo Tomás de Aquino School, in his hometown. He passed 1st, 2nd, and 3rd years of High School in the Provincial Institute of Oriente, and the last one in the Institute of Havana, where he graduated as Bachelor in Letters and Sciences in 1922. He became Doctor in Civil Laws in the University of Havana (1925). He worked as lawyer, and later was appointed Judge in the municipal courts of Campechuela, Niquero and Manzanillo, in the province of Oriente. In December, 1927 he was appointed Second Deputy Judge of Manzanillo. He was one of the settlers of Las Noticias newspapers (1931), from Manzanillo. In 1934 he was promoted to Municipal First Deputy Judge of the same city. Next year he became Municipal Judge from Baracoa, Oriente, and presided the Junta Municipal Electoral of that Municipality. He collaborated, among other publishings, in Orto, Revista de La Habana, Diario de la Marina and Vanidades. He wrote several works on Laws.
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