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1918
Composer, guitarist and professor José (Pepe) Sánchez died.
03 de Enero de 1918
He was born in March 19th, 1856 and died in January 3rd, 1918. He is considered the father of Cuban trova song. He was mentor of Sindo Garay. According to testimonies by his contemporaries, it is known he was an excelent guitarist and singer. In 1880 he composed his earliest boleros, songs, guarachas and habaneras: "Cristinita", "El tabaquero", "Himno a Maceo", "Pobre artista", "De profundis", "Rosa I", "Rosa II", "Rosa III", "Cuba, mi patria querida", "Elvira", "Caridad, "Esperanza" and what is considered the first bolero, "Tristezas".
Master of prestigious Cuban music personalities such as: Alberto Villalón (1882-1954), Pepe Banderas (1894-1971), Miguel Matamoros (1894-1971) and Sindo Garay (1867-1968).
1926
Poet José Manuel Poveda died.
03 de Enero de 1926
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
Orchestra Conductor Guido López Gavilán was born.
03 de Enero de 1944
He was born in January 3rd, 1944. He studied in the Havana Municipal Conservatory and in the Tchaikovshy of Moscow, where he graduated as orchestra conductor in 1973. He has conducted concerts in several countries. In Cuba he has done it with the National symphonic Orchestra, as well as the orchestras of Matanzas, Villa Clara, Camagüey and Oriente. He was President of the Section of music of the Saiz Brothers Brigade.
1946
Composer, orchestra conductor and flutist Jaime Prats died
03 de Enero de 1946
He was born in Sagua la Grande, in March 29th, 1883 and died in Havana in January 3rd, 1946. Besides, he played clarinet, violin, counterbass and piano. He began studying music at the age of seven. In 1897 he moved to Cienfuegos, city in which he kept on his musical activities, at the same time he graduated as Bachelor at the age of 17. In 1899 he settled in Havana and played the first flute in the orchestra of the Azzali Opera Company, with which he toured several American countries.Back to Cuba he conducted the Municipal Band of Sagua la Grande, (Santa Clara).
He graduated in the Peyrellade Conservatory in 1904, and then he settled in Santa Clara a music academy annexed to the Conservatory of Carlos Alfredo Peyrellade. Since 1906 he conducted orchestras of theatre companies, travelling to Centroamérica with them. In 1913 he graduated as Doctor in Pharmacy in the University of Havana. A year later he performed a Cuban music concert with orchestra en New York. In 1922 he settled the Cuban Jazz Band, first musical group of this genre, whose musicians were all Cubans.
He composed music for theatre plays. Among his compositions protrudes the bolero "Ausencia". He dedicated his last years to teach history of music in the Iranzo Conservatory and at the same time he taught classes of harmony and composition in the Ramona Sicardo Conservatory.
2006
Poet Jesús Orta Ruiz, "El Indio NaborÃ" passed away.
03 de Enero de 2006
He was born on September 30, 1922 and died on January 3, 2006.
Since his childhood he performed agrilcultural labours with his father. He studied elementary school in a public school. In 1946 El Indio Naborà was awarded in the National Literary Contest Homage to Mothers issued by the Asociación de Periodistas y Escritores de Artemisa (Assoiation of Journalists ad Writers of Artemisa )(Pinar del Rio). In 1951 he started management careerer in the University of Havana, but he did not graduate. Struggling against Fulgencio Batista dictatorship he collaborated with the Revolutionary Movement July 26th and the People´s Socialist Party. In 1959 he attended the VII International Festival of Youth, held in Viena. That every year, and the next one, he was awarded by the General Diretction of Culture of the Ministery of Education and awarded with the «Juan Gualberto Gómez» National Journalistic Award. He got the title of Joutnalist at the «Manuel Marquez Sterling» Professional School of Journalism (1962).
Besides he studied Philosophy and the «Ñico lópez», National School of the Communist Party of Cuba. He was visited Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, the former Soviet Union, France, Italy, Spain, Mxico, Canada, United States of America. He has collaborated in Mañana, Noticias de Hoy in the latter he was in charge of the section «Al son de la historia» where he commented present-day political situation in verse, from 1960 to 1967. He has also collaborated in Bohemia, Mujeres, Romances, Mella, Trabajo, Verde Olivo, El Mundo and Granma. He has written scripts for special programs of the Cuban Broadcastin Institute (lCR). He was member of the Commission of History of the ommunist Party of Cuba. He is the author of the foreword and the compilation of the Cuban décima (ten-verse stanza) book Musa popular revolucionaria (Havana, Provincial Government 1960), of the foreword and selection of PoesÃa gauchesca (Gaucho Poetry) (Havana, Casa de las Américas, 1974), and of the foreword of «El Cucalambé» Poetry (Juan Cristóbal Nápoles Fajardo pseudonymous), published in 1974.
His poems has been translated into English, Franch, Italian, Czech, Russian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Vietnamese He has written under the following pseudonymous: Jesús Ribona, Juan Criollo, MartÃn de la Hoz and Indio Naborà being as well-known by the latter, as by his real name.
2008
Writer Lisandro Otero died
03 de Enero de 2008
He was born in Havana in June 4th, 1932 and died in january 3th, 2008. Son of the journalist Lisandro Otero Masdeu. He studied elementary and high school in his hometown. He was pupil of the School of Journalism and of the Philosophy and Letters of the University of Havana. He also studied in Le Sorbonne. He took part in the underground struggle against Fulgencio Batista´s dictatorship. After the Triumph of the Revolution he was appointed general director of Havana Municipality (1959). He was Chief Editor of Revolución newspaper (1960-1961). He took part in the Conference for National Sovereignty, Economical Emancipation and Peace, held in Mexico in 1961.
He was Secretary of the National Association of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) (1961-1963), elected for it on its First Congress (1961), and director of Cuba magazine (1963-1968). Novel Award in the 1963 Casa de las Américas Contest by La situación. In 1965 he wom Mention in the Biblioteca Breve Contest from Seix Barral Publishing House, Barcelona, with his novel Pasión de Urbino.
In 1966 he was elected Vice President of the National Council of Culture. From 1967 to 1968 he directed Revolución y Cultura, its official organ. In 1967 he attended the Second Latin American Congress of Writeres, held in Mexico. Besides he visited, United States of America England, Spain, Italy, Denmark, Sweeden, Belgium, Hollanda, Federal Republic of Germany, Switzerland, the former Soviet Union, Hungary, Poland.
He was cultural adviser of the Embassy of Cuba to Chile and Great Britain. He colaborated in Bohemia, Carteles, Granma, Juventud Rebelde, El Mundo, Casa de las Américas, Unión, La Gaceta de Cuba, from Cuba and in Partisans and Europe, both from France. Author of the script of the muisical comedy El solar, filmed and staged as a ballet.
His works have been translated to German, Italian, French, English, Russian, Rumanian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Czech.
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