New headquarter for decane of cultural groups of Camagüey

By:Adolfo Silva Silva

The Provincial Band of Concerts, decane of the cultural groupings of this town, received its new headquarter officially in an act headed by Julio Cesar García, first secretary of the Party in the county.

The composer and musician was also among the assistants of Camagüey Adalberto Álvarez, deputy to the Parliament.

Members of the artistic institution, had been founded for 90 years, rehabilitated the property, an old warehouse lifted in the XX century, in the area proclaimed in the 2009 Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity, in the third city of bigger population in Cuba.

The local resides to few meters of the street Maceo, main commercial via of the provincial capital.

The “the Danzón queen Isabel” closed the offered show for the orchestra in the inaugural ceremony.

Esteban Quesada, national advisory of music bands, qualified--in dialogue with the press--, of excellent to the institution of Camagüey, one of those more than 120 of the effective sector in the island.

Quesada remembered that the figure is been of the application of an initiative exposed by the Commandant in Boss Fidel Castro, in the 2000, to multiply the quantity of that entity type, directed to the interpretation of a high variety of musical goods.