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Chucho Valdés, Arturo Sandoval, and Paquito D'Rivera reunite at the Adrienne Arsht Center in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Irakere.

Michel Herrera · Nueva Era 5 In a country like Cuba – where music education programmes have tended to be designed for the 19 th century, European-style conservatoire has reigned supreme – the focus would naturally tend towards orchestral instruments such as the piano, violin, cello and others. Despite the fact that traditions have always been vibrantly alive and that ancestral storytelling, music and dance forms have thrived and have been syncretized into both spiritual and secular...