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Carlos Pintado
Carlos Pintado (born 1974 in Cuba) is a Cuban–American writer, playwright and award-winning poet who immigrated to the United States in the early 90s. He received the prestigious 2014 Paz Prize for Poetry for his book '' Nine coins/Nueve Monedas'' awarded by the National Poetry Series and published in a bilingual edition by Akashic Press. His book ''Autorretrato en azul'' received the Sant Jordi's International Prize for Poetry and his ''El azar y los tesoros'' was one of the finalists for Adonais Prize in 2008. He also contributed to the book ''The exile Experience: a journey to freedom'', coordinated by Cuban American music producer Emilio Estefan. In September 2015, The New York Times Magazine published his poem "The moon", selected by US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey. Some of his works have been published on World Literature Today, The American Poetry Review, The New York Times, Raspa Magazine, among others. In praising Pintado’s work, United States' Presidential Ina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Richard Blanco
Richard Blanco (born February 15, 1968) is an American poet, public speaker, author and civil engineer. He is the fifth poet to read at a United States presidential inauguration, having read the poem " One Today" for Barack Obama's second inauguration. He is the first immigrant, the first Latino, the first openly gay person and at the time the youngest person to be the U.S. inaugural poet. Blanco's books include ''How to Love a Country''; ''City of a Hundred Fires'', which received the Agnes Starrett Poetry Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press; ''Directions to The Beach of the Dead'', recipient of the Beyond Margins Award from the PEN American Center; and ''Looking for The Gulf Motel'', recipient of the Paterson Poetry Prize and the Thom Gunn Award. He has also authored the memoirs ''For All of Us, One Today: An Inaugural Poet's Journey'' and '' The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood'', winner of the Lambda Literary Prize. In addition, Blanco has collaborated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Francisco Gattorno
Francisco Alejandro Gattorno Sánchez (; born October 12, 1964), better known in the show business world plainly as Francisco Gattorno, is a Cuban-Mexican actor. Biography Francisco grew up in Santa Clara. He is a son of a Canarian father, and mother whose grandparents descended from the French colonial population of Saint Domingue. He became interested in acting and directing as a young man. As a child, Gattorno became very fond of Cuban customs, such as Cuban music and sports. It was acting and directing, however, that occupied his interests more. Because of that, Gattorno studied acting, both at home in Cuba and in Mexico. He earned Mexican citizenship during the early 2000s. In 1985, 21-year-old Gattorno made his professional film debut, participating as Miguel in a Cuban production '' Una Novia para David'' ("A Girlfriend for David"). Before this chance he had played in amateur films as Tomas Piard's '' Boceto'' where he made a brief full frontal nudity. Three years passe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco Céspedes
Francisco Fabián Céspedes Rodríguez, also known as Pancho Céspedes (born 28 February 1957) is a Grammy-nominated Latin American singer, musician, and songwriter born in Santa Clara, Cuba. Céspedes is currently a naturalized Mexican. He is most known for his 1998 song, "Vida Loca". Biography Cuban-born singer/songwriter Francisco Céspedes left his physician career to get involved in romantic music movement called "feeling" (bolero and jazz mixed in Cuba). After his arrival in Mexico, 1993, Luis Miguel included one of Francisco's authored title "Pensar en ti" on the album "Aries", that was the international debut on Francisco composer career. Luis Miguel selected again in 1996 the title "Qué tú te vas" from him and included it in the álbum "Nada es igual". His debut as soloist singer and writer was in the Festival de Viña del Mar 1997, representing México with the title "Hablo de ti", a song written in Cuba years earlier. In this acclaimed Latino-American festival, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaufman Music Center
Kaufman Music Center is a performing arts complex in New York City that houses Lucy Moses School, Special Music School, and Merkin Hall and the "Face the Music" program. Originally known as the Hebrew Arts School, it was founded in 1952 and is currently located on West 67th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue. More than 75,000 people use the Center annually. History Kaufman Music Center was founded by Dr. Tzipora Jochsberger in 1952 as a community music school. Located at 129 W. 67th St. on Manhattan's Upper West Side, today's Kaufman Music Center is home to Merkin Hall; Lucy Moses School, New York's largest community arts school; Special Music School (PS 859), a K-12 public school that teaches music as a core subject; and the teen new music program Face the Music. First known as the Hebrew Arts School for Music and Dance, the school moved to its permanent home, the Goodman House, on W. 67th St. in 1978. Named after Abraham Goodman, the building was designed by Ashok ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Continuum (chamber Ensemble)
Continuum (founded 1966) is an American classical chamber music ensemble specializing in contemporary classical music. Biography and career Founded in New York City in 1966 by pianists Cheryl Seltzer and Joel Sachs, Continuum is a chamber music ensemble that focuses on performing and recording classical music by composers from the 20th and 21st centuries. Performing in their native New York City, and around the world, Continuum aims "to expand the audience for recent music," and performs and records both well-known contemporary composers as well as many lesser-known composers. Initially performing works by composers such as Bartók, Stravinsky, Ravel, and Debussy, Continuum branched out to feature works by Cowell, Ives, Seeger, Thomson, and many others. Continuum often performs "retrospective concerts," which focus on a range of works by a single composer. "Exploring a broad range of their work, such concerts offer the listener deep insights into a composer's development." ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ileana Perez-Velazquez
Ileana Perez Velazquez is a Cuban-American composer and Professor of Composition at Williams College since 2000. She was born in Cienfuegos, Cuba, and then studied as an undergraduate in piano and composition from the Higher Institute of Arts (ISA), Havana, Cuba before moving to the United States for graduate work in composition at Dartmouth College and Indiana University, where she earned her DMA. Her work draws from a range of influences, which a New York Times review characterized having an "otherworldly quality mirrored in the accompaniment and sounding like a musical expression of the Latin American literary form magical realism." In contrast, one of her compositions performed in 2019, ''Tu, paz mia,'' was reviewed as "Processional and solemn, the work is Baroque in tone." She has been commissioned to compose works by many organizations, including the 2015 Commission from the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University. She has written works for numerous performers and e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tania León
Tania León (born May 14, 1943) is a Cuban-born American composer of both large scale and chamber works. She is also renowned as a conductor, educator, and advisor to arts organizations. Early years and education She was born Tania Justina León in Havana, Cuba, of mixed French, Spanish, Chinese, African, and Cuban heritage. It was her grandmother who recognized that her granddaughter liked music because of the way she reacted to music on the radio. She began studying the piano at the age of four and she attended Carlos Alfredo Peyrellade Conservatory, where she earned a B.A. in 1963, and the Alejandro García Caturla Conservatory, where she studied piano with Zenaida Manfugás. Leon was one of an estimated 300,000 Cubans who left Cuba as a refugee on the so-called "Freedom Flights". In the spring of 1967 she left Cuba and settled in New York City, continuing her studies at New York University under the tutelage of Ursula Mamlok (B.S., 1971; M.S., 1975). Career In 1969 León bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Francisco Girls Chorus
The San Francisco Girls Chorus, established in 1978 by Elizabeth Appling and celebrating its 40th anniversary during the 2018-2019 Season, is a leading regional center for music education and performance for young women, ages 4–18, based in San Francisco. Each year, more than 300 singers from 45 Bay Area cities participate in SFGC's programs. The organization consists of a professional-level performance, recording, and touring ensemble and a six-level Chorus School training program. A leading voice on the Bay Area and national music scenes, the Chorus has produced award-winning concerts, recordings, and tours, empowered young women in music and other fields, enhanced and expanded the field of music for treble voices and set the international standard for the highest level of performance and education. The Chorus has been the recipient of 5 GRAMMY Awards, 4 Chorus America/ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music, and the Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soka Gakkai International
Soka Gakkai International (SGI) is an international Nichiren Buddhist organisation founded in 1975 by Daisaku Ikeda, as an umbrella organization of Soka Gakkai, which declares approximately 12 million adherents in 192 countries and territories as of 2017, more than 1.5 million of whom reside outside of Japan as of 2012. It characterizes itself as a support network for practitioners of Nichiren Buddhism and a global Buddhist movement for "peace, education, and cultural exchange." SGI is also a non-governmental organization (NGO) in consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council since 1983. History The Soka Gakkai International (SGI) was formed at a world peace conference on January 26, 1975, on the island of Guam. Representatives from 51 countries attended the meeting and chose Daisaku Ikeda, who served as third president of the Japanese Buddhist organization Soka Gakkai, to become the SGI's founding president. The SGI was created in part as a new inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Andrews (director)
Michael Andrews may refer to: * Michael Andrews (artist) (1928–1995), British artist * Michael Andrews (boxer), Nigerian boxer * Michael Andrews (musician) (born 1967), American musician * Michael Andrews (rugby league) (born 1962), Australian rugby league footballer * Michael A. Andrews (born 1944), member of the United States House of Representatives in the 103rd United States Congress * Mike Andrews Michael Jay Andrews (born July 9, 1943) is an American former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as an infielder for the Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox and Oakland Athletics. After his playing career, he served fo ... (born 1943), American baseball player * Mike Andrews (footballer) (born 1946), Australian rules football player for Fitzroy * Mickey Andrews (born 1942), American football coach * Michael Andrews (referee) (born 1956), Indian football referee See also * Michael Andrew (other) {{DEFAULTSORT:Andrews, Michael ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
