Haydee Santamaría

When his friend George Gershwin persuaded Vladimir Dukelsky to change his name to Vernon Duke, what the music world already knew became apparent to the public at large—the man had two musical personas—one as a composer, the other as a tunesmith. One wrote highbrow music, the other lowbrow. Yet the two sides complemented each other. Neither could function without the other. Born and classically trained in imperial Russia, Vladimir Dukelsky (1903–1969) fled the Bolshevik Revolution with his family, discovered American popular music in cosmopolitan Constantinople, and pursued his budding...

En todas sus páginas de suspenso y drama de una mujer valiente que le toco sobrevivir y escapar de su verdugo quieres saber mucho mas de esta historia fantástica, de sacrificio y sufrimiento como de los traficantes humanos, el camión maldito, los cadáveres, el desertor sandinista, los desertores, centro Americanos del ejército y de los guerrilleros, centro americanos de refugiados y mucho mas. Lea esta maravillosa historia no se lo pierda es una historia de la vida real de Rosa y su amado Juan. Es una narración en lenguaje sencillo, pero valiente. Es una historia para el buen lector...

Este libro, fruto de una paciente y documentada investigación, nos muestra a Dulce María Serret en toda su grandeza. Esta ilustre figura de nuestra cultura recibió una esmerada educación musical en La Habana y Madrid, y brilló como intérprete en los principales salones de París. A su regreso a Cuba, estremeció la capital con sus presentaciones. Ya en Santiago funda, junto a otros intelectuales del momento, varias instituciones para el desarrollo de la música de concierto; la principal fue el Conservatorio Provincial de Música de Oriente. A partir de entonces, se entregó a la...

I became a father at fifteen. At my young age, I wanted to play at being an adult, and the responsibilities were coming day by day in my new chapter as a father. During my boy's first birthday, I had the opportunity, over dinner at my house, to tell my mother that I would soon marry Elizabeth. She took my hand and said, "You two are too young to take such a huge step. Life is just beginning for both of you, and you still have a very long way to go and meet many more people." Regardless of her words that night, my decision to continue with the civil wedding remained solid, and a couple of...