Beethoven, German musical genius, goes into the cultural history of Holguín with the interpretation of his Ninth Symphony last May 6th just one hour before midnight, in the Mayor General Calixto García Revolution Square.
”It is the third time the piece is played n Cuba, and the first time outdoors”, said Maestro Enrique Perez Mesa, director of the National Symphonic Orquestra (OSN), invited to Holguín to conduct the Holguín Symphonic Orquestra. “It was played last when the Havana Book Fair was devoted to 
The execution, done purposely in the eve of its 185th anniversary when it was premiered in the Vienese Imperial Court, Austria; on may 7, 1824, renders a homage to Beethoven whose musical piece was taken as the official background of the May Pilgrimage celebrated yearly in Holguín.
Singers Maria Dolores Rodriguez, Norkristian Garcia, Marcos Lima and Rigoberto Lopez, the Orfeon Holguin and the Rodrigo Prats Lyrical Theater choirs, along with music students, were praised by the public and by Pérez Mesa who accepted conducting the most important fact from the 16th May Pilgrimages.
According to Frank Fernandez, “We must feel honored of belonging to a province that has the courage and the cultural capacity of playing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. 
He also appreciated "the effort and the result of playing for the first time in Holguín a work that is the most complex of all musical works ever composed, which demands many resources and good acoustics, but local musicians dared to play it outdoors so that Beethoven could be connected to this so popular, so dear and so famous May Pilgrimage Festival.
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