Casa de las Americas Musicology Award

Musicologists and music researchers from Venezuela, Uruguay, Bolivia, Brazil, Peru and Mexico, among others will participate in the 12th Casa de las Americas Musicology Award, to be in session next November 1-5.

17 works will be in competition for the award. On the sideline, the 4th International Musicology Colloquium will include conferences and workshops.

Members of the jury will be Latin American and Caribbean personalities such as: Argentinean Omar Corrado, Peruvian Chalena Vasquez, Venezuelan Mariantonia Palacios, Cubans Ana Victoria Casanova and Jesus Guanche and Argentinean Bernardo Illari as special guest.

The head of Casa de las Americas music department, Maria Elena Vinueza, remembered that Casa de las Americas Award that was founded in 1979, has created new links in the music of the region, included the Caribbean.

She said to press that the four main topics to be discussed in the debates are: Theory and critics on the history and music historiography of Latin America, Urban popular music in Latin America and the Caribbean, Organology: a field potential underestimated and Music Management and Musicology Applied. The award, created by Cuban Argeliers Leon (1918-1991), has stimulated the broadcasting and recognition of some 200 works, of great value to the musical history of our region, Vinueza said.

Cuba Premiered Argentinean Documentary on Che

The documentary "Che, A new Man", by Argentinean filmmaker Tristan Bauer was premiered at 330 Cuban films and video halls, presenting a human, live portrait, with new profiles.

In about one and a half hour, the film deals with the life of the guerrilla, his political thinking, his family relations, an his love for literature and arts, based on a comprehensive historic research the director made for 12 years.

"I knew it was a challenge, but I had to try to transmit the concept of a man who studies, immersed in a deep theoretic reflection on a par with action," Bauer told press.

The documentary was co-produced by the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC), the Center on Che Guevara's Studies, Argentina' National Film and Audiovisual Institute, the National University of San Martin, the Spanish Television, and Golem Distribution Label.

It was screened on the occasion of the 43rd death anniversary of Ernesto Guevara in Bolivia.

It is an audiovisual material of incalculable value, a portrait enriched with substantial contributions by the Center bearing his name, and unexposed images granted by ICAIC.