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1888
Poet José Manuel Poveda was born.
23 de Febrero de 1888
He was born in Santiago de Cuba in February 23rd, 1888 and died in January 3rd , 1926. He settled the Sociedad de Estudios Literarios (Society of Literarary Stuydies) and the Grupo Nacional de Acción de Arte (National Group of Action of Art) Personal friend of Regino Boti, he takes part in a movement of literary renovation, taking Julián del Casal as the leader to be followed.
1944
Composer Martín Rojas was born.
23 de Febrero de 1944
He was born in Havana on February 23, 1944. He plays guitar and counterabass. He studied guitar with professors Isaac Nicola and Roberto de Moya. Later he kept on through self-teaching. In 1959 he started as professional with the group Antares, interpreters of Latin American music. In 1964 he joined a nite-club orchestra as counterbassist, and later he joined the Frank Domínguez group. In 1966 he setteld and directed the Combo Sonorama 6. He has worked as Omara Portuondo´s accompanying guitarist. Author of songs whithin the most recent expression, outstanding: “Cuento para un niño”, “Mi montuno son”, “Romance de la alondra y ci quetzal”, “Siempre es 26”, “Preludio por la soledad”.
1987
The musician repentista Cipriano Isidrón Torres, known as Chanito Isidrón passed away.
23 de Febrero de 1987
Cipriano Isidrón Torres, known as Chanito Isidrón, was born on September 26, 1903 in Calabazar de Sagua and died in Havana on February 23, 1987. He became a popular repentista(improviser) in Cuba.
Thanks to his work carried, next to that of other interpreters, a resurgence and regained popularity of décima (ten-verse stanza) took place in Cuba.
Chanito was actively involved in diverse controversias (improvisation between two or more singers) and performed in several radio and television shows. He stood out by the use of the characteristic sense of humor of Cubans in his improvisations.
He also published verses and works in prose related with the countryside and peasants theme.
1991
Musicologist, professor and composer Argeliers León died.
23 de Febrero de 1991
He was born in Havana in May 7th, 1918 and died in February 23rd, 1991. EIn 1943 he graduated on Pedagogics in the University of Havana, and in 1945 in the Municipal Conservatory of thas city, in which he studied with professors Mompó, Luaces and Pérez Sentenat. He began studying composition with José Ardévol and completed his formation with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. In 1951 an scholarship was granted to him for studying folklore and musical didactics in the University of Chile.
He travelled along American, Eurepean and Áfrican countries, delivering lectures and courses: University of Santiago de Chile, (Panorama of Cuban Musical Folklore) Ministry of Education, Lima, Peru( Black People in Cuban Musical Folklore) 1951; School of Antropology, Mexico, (Ethnological Factors of Cuban People) University of Humboldt, Berlin, (Ethnological Factors of Cuban People), 1967.
He took part in several international events; delegate to the VIII International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Moscow, 1964; Meeting of the working groups for the study of music in Latin America, held in Caracas, Venezuela, summoned by UNESCO. Besides, he has collaborated, in foreign magazines: Scientific World, London; Algérie Actualité, Algiers; América Indígena, Mexico; Abbandlungen und bericbte des staatliche Museums für volker-kunde Dresden, Dresde, Germany. From 1961 to 1970 he directed the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore of the Academy of Sciences of Cuba. He was also director of the Music Department of the “josé Martí” National Library, professor of the Municipal Conservatory of Havana; of African Art and Black Cultures of Cuba, in the University of Havana. He was professor of musicology of the Higher Studies Arts Institute (Instituto Superior de Arte, ISA), and Director of the Departament of Music of Casa de las Américas. His compositions are fundamentally based upon folkloric music, but making them through quite ellaborated technical elements.
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