CHRIS SEARLE welcomes a new book that makes working class history come alive in a true story of human flesh and aspiration
Mozart and Mambo
NICK MATTHEWS recommends a vivacious blend of classical and traditional Cuban music that brings swing to Mozart
GORDON PARSONS is intrigued by a contemporary update of a problem play that raises more questions than it answers
New releases from Alice Di Micele, Tim Grimm, and Tereza Catarov
MARY CONWAY is frustrated by the stylistic muddle that arises when you apply a pub theatre sensibility to a towering Greek tragedy
ALAN McGUIRE welcomes a biography of the French semiologist and philosopher
ALEX HALL is frustrated by a book that ducks a clear definition of terrorism and fails to perceive the role of the state in sponsoring it
To mark Mozart’s 250th birthday in 2007 a marble bust was unveiled in San Francisco de Asis Square in Old Havana. It was the work of Austrian sculptor Anton Thuswaldner, and a gift from the state government of Salzburg, Austria.
This prompted the formation of the Havana Lyceum Orchestra, founded by Pepe Mendez and fellow students from the Instituto Superior de Arte and the Escuelas Nacionales de Arte. The Mozarteum Salzburg together with Eusebio Leal, a Cuban historian, at the same time founded the Lyceum Mozartiano de La Habana, a cultural centre for classical music.
More from this author
Our annual memorial event and lecture honouring a legend of English working-class history, who ‘organised the unorganisable’ in the countryside, will hear from today’s organisers of the unorganisable fighting the bosses of Amazon, writes NICK MATTHEWS
NICK MATTHEWS welcomes the return of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s music to the repertoire of this years’ Three Choirs Festival
From sexual innuendo about Blackpool Rock to Bob Dylan’s ‘God-almighty world,’ the corporation’s classist moral custodianship of pop music has created a roll call of censored artists anyone would feel honoured to join, writes NICK MATTHEWS
NICK MATTHEWS previews a landmark book launch taking place in Leicester next weekend
