Canciones para subir a la Luna

Un libro de culto para entender el fenómeno ricotero. Esta nueva edición ampliada suma testimonios de los fans, la crónica de los recitales más emblemáticos y trata de desentrañar por qué una banda que no se presenta en vivo desde hace más de una década sigue todavía tan vigente.

Choral Scores is an anthology of music exemplifying distinctive choral repertoire by the most noteworthy composers throughout the history of Western music. A companion volume to Denis Shrock's Choral Repertoire (Oxford 2009), it presents works of salient importance to the development of choral music in Western culture, representing the music of the composers, eras, and movements discussed most prominently in that volume. Including 132 compositions by 124 different composers, each presented unabridged and in full score, and spanning the entirety of Western music history, from the medieval era...

A mucho más de medio siglo de ser compuestas, aún se escuchan en bares, cantinas y la radio de toda Cuba y fuera del país, muchas de sus creaciones como Cuidadito Compay Gallo y María Cristina; sin embargo, poco se sabe de la vida de este hombre cuyo verdadero nombre es revelado por el autor de esta obra, Oscar Montoto Mayor, apasionado baracoense, quien a partir de los testimonios de Antonio Fernández Arbelo, hijo de Ñico Saquito y auxiliado por el extenso archivo sobre su notable padre, junto a la pasion de sus nietos Alejandro y Toni, y las confesiones del propio compositor...

There is a woman who appears and disappears in the life of this almost 60-year-old musician, like an angel or demon, and removes everything. So much so that this confessional story begins that has the intensity with which a stranger is spoken to a stranger in a bar. Deeply traversed by music, history covers the character's relationship with alcohol, with women, with children, with the passage of time, but also with his artistic decisions and the role of his generation in culture and society. The songs are entangled in the discourse as in life, that echo in the wood that becomes lyrics and...