Cuban Zarzuela: Performing Race and Gender on Havana's Lyric Stage marks the first comprehensive study of the Cuban zarzuela, a Spanish-language light opera with spoken dialogue that originated in Spain but flourished in Havana during the ...
... Song I Sing ) . Both this film and the song are dedicated to Ignacio Villa ( nicknamed Bola de Nieve ) , an important figure in the history of Cuban song . Varela's lyrics echo the beginning of Vilasís's documentary : he establishes the ...
... Havana On one of those cruises , For forty - nine fifty To spend a few days , I went to Havana , To look at the natives , To study their customs , Their picturesque ways . In searching for some local color , I ran across a Cuban gent ...
... Havana dotes on either dramatic and fervent lyrics or humorous songs; the most popular have lyrics with double entendre, and everyone chuckles over their bawdy refrains. The Cubans know and love all their songs, old or new, and when an ...
... lyrics from Spanish poet Federico García Lorca, who visited Havana in the 1930s. Many of the musicians, who hadn't performed for years, went on tour and played to packed houses throughout the world, from New York to Amsterdam. One of ...
... Havana Yacht Club were indeed refreshing . Havana was the final destination of all our passengers except Mr. Sikorsky , who intended to fly as far as Panama . From Bridgeport to Panama he was in the cockpit with me all the time . Mr ...
... Havana ; died 22 Octo- ber 1935. Began writing music when he was an adolescent . At the end of the Cuban War of Inde ... ( lyrics by Mariano Corona Ferrer ) . Roig , Gonzalo . Composer , band conductor . Born 20 July 1890 , Havana ...
... lyrics—angry denunciations of racism and police brutality, and bleak portraitsof daily life in Havana's forgotten neighborhoods. Clan 537—the main attraction of the group's eponymous first album isthe controversialsong theCuban ...
... Havana , while in a typical move - its lyrics romanticised the peasant life and the countryside from which it had sprung . From Guantánamo haled Herminio Wilson ( 1904-97 ) , who claimed to have set the words ' guajira guantanamera ' to ...