CubaPLUS Magazine

The 32nd edition of the International Choir Festival will ratify Santiago de Cuba as a significant place of that sound, when from December 6 to 10, it gathers Cuban and other groups. The event will pay tribute to Maestro Electo Silva, National Music Prize, founder of the meeting and defender of the singing to voices, who recently died and has in the Orfeón Santiago one of his greatest works, along with the children's cantorías and the teaching of that difficult artistic execution. The Concert Hall Dolores, recognized by Cuban interpreters as one of the best acoustics nationally, will be the main venue of the presentations that will be extended to squares and parks, schools, hospitals, museums, penitentiaries and other areas. Along with recognized Cuban groups, the organizing committee points out the international participation and the celebrations to such notable directors as Alina Orrraca, Beatriz Corona, Carmen Collado, Corina Campos and Leonor Suarez. At the Esteban Salas Conservatory, where the musical talent of the city is formed along with the José María Heredia Vocational Art School, meetings will take place with the students and professors, in addition to the theoretical sessions and practical workshops that will be part of the program. They will also return during those days the popular choral rounds, a tradition of the event that will fill with harmonies diverse spaces of the urban plot and will close in front of the Municipal City Council and the centric park Céspedes, this new edition.