CubaPLUS Magazine

Stanford comes to Havana

By: Charly Morales Valido
Jun 29, 2017
Stanford comes to Havana

Stanford Junior Symphony Orchestra played a concert in Havana, in another musical bridge laid between United States and Cuba. American symphonic band, directed by Anna Wittstruck, assumed a demanding repertoire after combining works by classical and contemporary authors. 

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The concert, held in the Avellaneda Hall of the Teatro Nacional de Cuba, had as a preamble the Chamber Orchestra of Havana, directed by Daiana Garcia, which played "Serenade for strings", a piece for string orchestra in three short movements, by British Edward Elgar, premiere in 1892. 

The Stanford symphony took over the stage and assumed with amazing interpretive solidity the second, third and fourth movements of the Symphony No. 7 by Beethoven, a monument to human creation that came to light more than two centuries ago. 

Our performance has been an example of commitment to the future and hope, said the PhD in Musicology in reference to the tense relationship between the United States and its southern neighbors following the arrival of Donald Trump at the White House.

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