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Hurts so good: Flamenco star Diego El Cigala to sing tango in Miami
What’s most remarkable about flamenco singer Diego El Cigala interpreting tango is not how wildly original it sounds, but how natural it feels. |
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Mercedes Sosa: "Cantora," and
a celebration of a life in music
It’s perhaps fitting that Cantora, simply woman singer in Spanish, turns out to be the last recording by Argentine folk singer Mercedes Sosa, who died of kidney and liver failure, Sunday, October 4, at a clinic in Buenos Aires. She was 74.
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Two to Tango
Across continents, generations, instruments and sensibilities, Al Di Meola remains committed to the Nuevo Tango of Astor Piazzolla. |
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See No Evil. Cry for Argentina
I had a flash of people chasing after me, grabbing me. I imagined insults, punches, kicks. It was 1976, I was 22 again, the cops and the military had life and death powers over me and this place was a police garage but also El Olimpo, The Olympus, one of the clandestine concentration camps in Buenos Aires, a place of torture and death. |
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Chucho Valdés: Cuban Story
With Chucho's Steps, pianist and composer Chucho Valdés reflects on a whirlwind life full of cultural heritage, creative inspiration and remarkable music. |
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Isabel Allende
Latin America’s Sheherazade
Her answers and gestures add up to intriguing paradoxes: a no-nonsense romantic, a tough survivor with manicured nails, a hopeful cynic, a feminist in high heels, a writer who writes to remember but, on a whim or a dare, would just as soon reinvent her memories. "I've always told stories," she says with a wave of her hand. "They used to call me a liar. Now that I write books, they call me a narrator." |
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Omar Sosa: The Flavor of Africa
For nearly two decades, Cuban pianist and composer Omar Sosa, has been constructing a Pan-African sound that both embraces and connects ancient African traditions and the neo-African cultures of the African diaspora, especially in Europe and the New World. |
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Bertolucci returns to Rome to explore the power of love, trascending "otherness'
In Besieged, the new film by Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci, a peculiar love story plays out over a profound cultural chasm. …
"I'm a bit obsessed by the curiosity for the 'other,'" says Bertolucci from his home in Rome. "But I'm interested in otherness as a seductive factor, not as a reason to fear. What I've found is that the first step of knowing the other one is to accept him or her." |
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Miguel Zenón Folk Art
On his latest album, Esta Plena, saxophonist Miguel Zenón blends the traditional plena music of his native Puerto Rico with modern-jazz ethos. But this is no standard fusion. Rather, the music suggests a form of bilingualism.
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The art of consensus
It's a late Friday morning at Britto Central on Lincoln Road and a casually elegant couple is being led around the gallery by an attendant, price list in hand.
In the small office in the back of the gallery, the phone rings nonstop. |
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