He wrote and admired many of the great creators of the time and attended classical and popular music concerts claiming that «the voice and the piano, like light and shadow go together»
Camagüey, Cuba, Jan 26th.- José Martí, lover of good music was the topic discussed this weekend at the Nicolás Guillén Birthplace by Dr. Verónica Fernández, who pointed to Alejo Carpentier as one of the discoverers of the sensitivity of the Apostle of Cuban Independence for this art and his critical skills, despite not having been a musicologist or playing any instrument.
From a young age, Mendive instilled in him a taste for Italian opera, which at that time was widely consumed by the Cuban elite. Martí showed interest in jazz, saying that music was more beautiful than poetry, even though his collection of poems had a rhythmic accent that nowadays makes it easy for many Cuban interpreters to convert his verses into melodic inspiration.
He listened with admiration to the first version of the Bayamo Hymn and to a Puerto Rican group that performed fragments of his essay De nuestra América.
He wrote and admired many of the great creators of the time and attended classical and popular music concerts, claiming that “the voice and the piano, like light and shadow, go together.”
By Luis Varcasia Era/Contributor