The 26th Holguín Classic Music Concert Meeting started 9.00 a.m. with a pilgrimage to the city cemetery to pay homage to Holguín late musicians José María Ochoa, Raúl Camayd and Manuel de Jesus Leyva, three outstanding exponents of the Cuban culture.
Next a concert was held at Julio Grave de Peralta park by the Cacocun municipality Concert Band.
The day went on with a conference on the Contribution of the Holguín Orfeón Choir to the Cuban choral art at the Iberia-American House by musicologist Ana Luisa Tamayo, Ana Arriaza, founder and first director of the Orfeón Holguín Choir, Marilín Aldana, its present-day director and the founding member María Fermina Durán and Oliver Hechavarría, who remembered its founding in 1964.
The inauguration concert, in the evening, included two choir from Eastern Cuba: the one from Santiago de Cuba and the one from Holguín. The latter is paid homage to for its 45th anniversary together with late musician Rodrigo Prats in his centenary and to Frank Fernández's 50 years of artistic life.
Headed by master Guido López Gavilán the inauguration concert came to an end with a Messiah selection, Glory to God in the Heights, Amén and Aleluya, from Händel, brilliantly interpreted by the Santiago de Cuba and Holguín Choirs, and the Holguín Chamber Orchestra.
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