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Alejandro Caturla

Caturla studied in Havana and in addition with Boulanger in Paris. He founded and carried out the Orquesta de Conciertos de Caibarién. Caturla’s compositions had been energetic concoctions of Afro-Cuban rhythms, damaged forms, uncommon chord mixtures, and unbalanced orchestrations. Although his history was white, he attemptedto synthesize the white and …

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