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"Social Club Buenavista" (also known as "Buena Vista Social Club") is a danzón composed by Cuban bassist Israel López "Cachao". [1] [2] It is one of his many compositions dedicated to a Cuban venue where he frequently played as part of the charanga Arcaño y sus Maravillas.
The piece is scored for two pianos and should not take much more than 7 minutes to perform. The score is marked Moderately [quarter note = 88], with the additional parenthetical remark "(nonchalant but precise)"; [8] in fact, the orchestral version is usually performed a bit slower due to specific demands made by Copland in its time, given the difficulty and the expected preciseness of the ...
Márquez is the first born of nine children of Arturo Márquez and Aurora Navarro. Márquez was the only one of the nine siblings to become a musician. Márquez's father was a mariachi musician in Mexico and later in Los Angeles. His paternal grandfather was a Mexican folk musician in the northern states of Sonora and Chihuahua.
Danzón No. 2 is an orchestral composition by Mexican composer Arturo Márquez.Along with Carlos Chávez's Sinfonia India and Silvestre Revueltas' Sensemaya, Danzón No. 2 is one of the most popular and most frequently performed orchestral Mexican contemporary classical music compositions.
Charanga is a traditional ensemble that plays Cuban dance music.They made Cuban dance music popular in the 1940s and their music consisted of heavily son-influenced material, performed on European instruments such as violin and flute by a Charanga orchestra.
Faílde's father was a Galician immigrant, and his mother a parda (dark mulata). [1] He was first taught music by his father, who was a trombone player, and at ten played cornet in the Banda de Bomberos (firemen) de Matanzas.
Raimundo Valenzuela de Leon (23 January 1848 in San Antonio de los Baños – 27 April 1905 in Havana) was a leading Cuban trombonist, composer and bandleader.
However, their debut album was already a bestseller, with 100,000 units sold in Mexico and 400,000 in all of Latin America. [3] In 1998, Control Machete covered the song "Amnesia" included in the album Volcán: Tributo a José José, a tribute to Mexican legend José José. Fermin IV left Control Machete in 2002 and released a solo album ...