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[Judi Lynn]

Cuba: US orchestra plays Havana after 85yrs

Thursday 7th May 2015

posted by Morning Star in World
by James Tweedie

A US orchestra will play concerts in Cuba for the first time in 85 years this month after the travel ban between the two countries was lifted on Tuesday.

The Minnesota Orchestra last played in the Caribbean island nation in 1930 and will at last return for two concerts at Havana’s National Theatre on May 15 and 16.

It will be the first US orchestra to play in Cuba since the historic reversal of Washington’s 55-year policy of economic blockade against the small communist state in December last year.

“We are honoured to have received this invitation from the Cuban Ministry of Culture,” said Minnesota Orchestra presi­dent and CEO Kevin Smith.

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