{"id":102648,"date":"2017-09-15T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T10:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oncubamagazine.com\/?p=102648"},"modified":"2018-10-02T21:03:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T01:03:22","slug":"silvios-angels-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba-usa\/silvios-angels-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Silvio\u2019s angels in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

Silvio Rodr\u00edguez sang \u201cCita con \u00e1ngeles\u201d on the natural stage for that song. At least three misfortunes of the \u201cwinged beings from another world\u201d have an intense connection with New York: Mart\u00ed, the \u201cangel on horseback\u201d; John Lennon, shot down in front of \u201cCentral Park\u201d full of people and the \u201cthousands who fell\u201d in the attack on the twin towers of the World Trade Center 16 years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cI dedicate this song to the martyrs, to the innocent people of that day,\u201d said Silvio. The September 11, 2001 attack against the twin towers was the macabre spectacle with which we entered the new millennium, a demolishing blow in the heart of the so-called world capital that has again received the Cuban trova singer, seven years after his last performance in the United States.<\/p>\n

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Silvio in concert in New York\u2019s Summer Stage. Photo: Gabriel Guerra Bianchini.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To this is added that for him \u201cNew York is a partly mythological city\u2026. It has a special fascination for me because it was the hometown of Whitman, a poet I always greatly admired. And for having taken in during fundamental years the genius of Mart\u00ed.\u201d<\/p>\n

The repertoire included songs from the CD Amorios<\/em> (2015), written between 1967 and 1980 and which Silvio had not included in any record. He of course sang his classics, with new arrangements, La maza<\/em>, Ojal\u00e1<\/em>, Peque\u00f1a serenata diurna<\/em>\u2026. The Unicornio<\/em> he did only on guitar, like at the beginning of his career.<\/p>\n

As is usual in recent years and in the concerts of the tour through the barrios he\u2019s been doing since September 2010, he was accompanied by Niurka Gonz\u00e1lez on the flute and clarinet, Trovarroco on the strings, Jorge Arag\u00f3n on the piano, Emilio Vega on the vibraphone, Oliver Vald\u00e9s on the drums and Jorge Reyes on the double bass.<\/p>\n

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Silvio Rodr\u00edguez in Summer Stage. Photo: Gabriel Guerra Bianchini.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n