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	Ernesto Lecuona
		Ernesto Lecuona was the most important musician in Cuban musical life during the first half of the 20th century.
		Born in Guanabacoa, a suburb of Havana, in 1895, Lecuona first established himself as an outstanding pianist, graduating from the National Conservatory with the Gold Medal in performance at the age of seventeen.
		Lecuona wrote a great deal of film music in the '30s and '40s for such major studios as MGM, 20th Century Fox and Warner Brothers and, in 1942, was nominated for an Academy Award.
	www153.pair.com /bensav/Compositeurs/Lecuona.E.html (155 words)

	LECUONA, Ernesto : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ernesto 'Jaruco' V zquez; they successfully toured Europe until WWII, during which they toured Latin America (tracks collected in five CD vols of Lecuona Cuban Boys '89--94 on UK Harlequin label).
		The Lecuona Cuban Boys based in NYC '46--60 continued to tour until the mid-'70s; Lecuona kept in touch via correspondence and telephone.
		Lecuona's daughter Ernestina sang with both the Lecuona Cuban Boys and Havana Cuban Boys; his niece, mezzo-soprano Margarita (b '10, Havana), made records incl.
	www.musicweb-international.com /encyclopaedia/l/L35.HTM (380 words)

	AllRefer.com - Ernesto Lecuona (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Ernesto Lecuona, Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biographies
		Ernesto Lecuona[ArnAs´tO lAkwO´nA] Pronunciation Key, 1896–1963, Cuban composer and pianist, grad.
		Lecuona is known for his Rapsodia negra (1943) as well as for his popular songs Malaguena and Siboney.
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		Ernesto Lecuona was a prolific composer, writing in many different forms, including musical reviews, zarzuelas (Spanish opera), cantatas, operettas, and piano pieces.
		Lecuona wrote numerous film scores in the '30s and '40s for such major studios as MGM, 20th Century Fox and Warner Brothers and, in 1942, was nominated ("Always in My Heart") for an Academy Award.
		Lecuona was named honorary cultural attache to the Cuban embassy in Washington in 1943 in recognition of his work as Cuba's cultural ambassador.
	web.gc.cuny.edu /dept/bildn/bildner/events/2002Events/02-05-24.htm (841 words)

	Ernesto Lecuona, biography
		Ernesto Leucona y Casado was born on August 6, 1895 in Guanabocoa, a village near Havana, Cuba.
		Ernesto Lecuona wrote more than 400 songs, 176 pieces for the piano, 50 theatrical pieces, 31 orchestral works, 11 soundtracks for the cinema, 5 ballets, one trio and an opera.
		Lecuona was also an enchanting pianist and the live recordings of his performances remain an extraordinary testimony to his talent.
	www.kha.it /lecuona/librettoEn_lq.htm (1548 words)

	Songwriters Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		uban-born, Ernesto Lecuona is the dominant musical force to have come out of the island nation, and without question one of the major contributors to the emergence of Latin music as a power in the world marketplace.
		Ernesto Lecuona was born in Guanabacoa, Cuba, across the bay from Havana, on August 6, 1895, but for an unexplained reason he actually observed his birthday as August 7, 1896.
		While we honor the late Ernesto Lecuona for his wonderful collection of memorable and tuneful songs, his talents in music-making were literally all over the map.
	www.songwritershalloffame.org /exhibit_bio.asp?exhibitId=228 (381 words)

	Ernesto Lecuona
		Lecuona wrote in virtually every form, from cantatas to piano pieces, but his songs are by far the best remembers works.
		Lecuona was named honorary cultural attache to the Cuban embassy in Washington in 1943 in recognition of his work as a cultural ambassador from Cuban.
		Lecuona lived exclusively in ranches and farms in Cuba, raising small animals and exotic birds in his spare time.
	www.spaceagepop.com /lecuona.htm (613 words)

	Lecuona, Ernesto Music Web Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ernesto Lecuona - Biography and family background, main influences and effects upon subsequent composers, tours, and noted popular works.
		Ernesto Lecuona - Biography, summary of major film works, details of his use of percussion, and political background.
		Lecuona, Ernesto "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
	www.searchmusicnetwork.com /Composition_Composers_L_Lecuona,_Ernesto.html (1745 words)

	Ernesto Lecuona: the Genius and his Music - review
		Ernesto Lecuona's centenary (1995) was celebrated in appropriate style with SGAE's publication of a complete catalogue of his works, accompanied by a handsome volume of essays and reminiscences El arte musical de Ernesto Lecuona.
		Lecuona, el Genio y su Musica is a collaboration between two historians, one of whom (Castellano) lives and works in the Canary Islands, where Lecuona died in 1964 and from whence his father had emigrated in 1860.
		Ernesto Lecuona the man remains elusive and shadowy.
	www.zarzuela.net /cd/book/LecuonaGM_review.htm (581 words)

	Ernesto Lecuona b
		Their concerts comprised of Ernesto performing his own pieces for solo piano and the band playing material from their repertoire of popular Cuban numbers, many of which were written by Lecuona and Oréfiche.
		The band was renamed the Lecuona Cuban Boys, and under the musical leadership of Oréfiche and trumpeter/guitarist/composer/arranger Ernesto Jaruco Vázquez, they continued to tour Europe extensively with considerable success until the outbreak of World War II.
		Ernesto's daughter, Ernestina Lecuona, sang with the Lecuona Cuban Boys for a while and also with Armando Oréfiche and his Havana Cuban Boys.
	www.centrohd.com /biogra/l1/ernesto_lecuona_b.htm (532 words)

	Encyclopedia: Ernesto Lecuona (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ernesto Lecuona (August 6, 1896 - 1963) was a Cuban composer and performer, undoubtedly the greatest and most legendary Cuban musician of his time.
		Lecuona was born in Guanabacoa, near Havana, Cuba on August 6, 1896.
		In 1960, thoroughly unhappy with Castro's new regime, Lecuona moved to Tampa.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ernesto-Lecuona (563 words)

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		Ernesto Lecuona and four of the soloists who appeared with him at the famous 1943 Cuban Liberation Day concert at Carnegie Hall in which the Rapsodia Negra was premiered.
		With Ernesto Lecuona are Miguel Matamoros and Gonzalo Roig.
		The Palau brothers became famous as The Lecuona Cuban Boys and Alberto Bolet was the brother of pianist Jorge Bolet.
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	Ernesto Lecuona -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He started early studying (A stringed instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds) piano under his sister Ernestina, then, at the Peyrellade Conservatoire under Antonio Saavedra and the famous Joaquin Nin.
		Lecuona graduated at the National Conservatory of Havana with a Gold Medal on interpretation when he was sixteen.
		He died 3 years later at (Click link for more info and facts about Santa Cruz de Tenerife) Santa Cruz de Tenerife and he is buried in (United States writer of novels and short stories mostly on moral themes (1804-1864)) Hawthorne, (A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies) New York.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/er/ernesto_lecuona.htm (192 words)

	Ernesto Lecuona Biography / Biography of Ernesto Lecuona Biography Biography
		Ernesto Lecuona (1896--1963) remains Cuba's best known and perhaps the nation's most prolific composer.
		Lecuona was also a noted pianist and conductor.
		Lecuona was born Ernesto Sixto de la Asuncion Lecuona y Casado in Guanabocoa, Cuba, on August 7, 1896.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-ernesto-lecuona/index.html (233 words)

	The Long Way Home: From The Tampa Tribune (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Despite Lecuona's fame, however, his more serious music rarely surfaces on orchestral programs in the United States, denying listeners a chance to explore live the scope and poetry of his art.
		Although often called a miniaturist in his approach to music, Lecuona was ingenious in crafting melody, and he fused it with the exotic rhythms of the day: the samba, rumba, habanera, conga and bolero.
		Lecuona was nominated for an Academy Award for his score for the 1942 film "Always In My Heart" and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1997.
	www.tampatrib.com /Baylife/MGBQRTTAGEE.html (759 words)

	Ernesto Lecuona
		A biography of the composer, Ernesto Lecuona: the Genius and his Music, in a new English translation by Professor Rafael A. Lecuona, has just been published and can be obtained by ordering from this web site if you follow the link.
		Lecuona's piano music is an important and very significant contribution to 20th century music.
		Lecuona's most ambitious theatre work was the opera, El Sombrero de Yarey, which he worked on it for several years but, to this day, remains unperformed.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/mvbart (760 words)

	Lecuona, Ernesto on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lecuona is known for his Rapsodia negra (1943) as well as for his popular songs Malagueña and Siboney.
		Rescatan olvidadas canciones de Ernesto Lecuona en nuevo disco
		Esther Borja: la "Damisela encantadora" de Lecuona cumple 90 años
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/L/Lecuona.asp (208 words)

	Product Fact - ACT 9404-2 - ACT Music + Vision (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Born in a suburb of Havana in 1895, Lecuona was a child prodigy who began studying piano at age three, entered the National Conservatory at 14 and graduated at 17 with a gold medal in piano performance, the school's highest honor.
		Like Lecuona, Valle is classically trained and started out young, beginning his piano studies at a Provincial School of the Arts when he was seven and turning professional after graduating from Havana's National School of the Arts in 1984.
		Lecuona had a remarkably inventive melodic gift and a seemingly effortless ability to conceive tender ballads and sunny themes that have not only proven to be timeless in their appeal but also perfectly adaptable to jazz improvisation.
	www.actmusic.com /press/pfe9404.htm (677 words)

	Ernesto Lecuona, el compositor cubano más difundido en el mundo / Yupi Internet - Cuba News / Noticias - CubaNet ...
		Lecuona, con una personalidad multifacética y abarcadora en el contexto de la creación, quien junto a Gonzalo Roig y Rodrigo Prats, forman la trilogía más importante de compositores del teatro lírico cubano y en especial de la zarzuela, nació en Guanabacoa el 7 de julio de 1986.
		Ernesto Lecuona fue un hombre de grandes iniciativas que organizó la Orquesta Sinfónica de La Habana y una compañía de teatro lírico con la que estrenó algunas de sus obras, entre las que destacan la ópera "El Rumbero de Yarey", y la zarzuela "El Cafetal".
		Ernesto Lecuona falleció en Santa Cruz de Tenerife, el 29 de Noviembre de 1963, lugar al que había viajado con la intención de conocer la tierra natal de sus padres.
	www.cubanet.org /CNews/y02/nov02/29o3.htm (751 words)

	Directory - Arts: Music: Composition: Composers: L: Lecuona, Ernesto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ernesto Lecuona · cached · Biography and family background, main influences and effects upon subsequent composers, tours, and noted popular works.
		Ernesto Lecuona · cached · Biography, summary of major film works, details of his use of percussion, and political background.
		Ernesto Lecuona · cached · Brief biographical sketch and Naxos discography.
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	Buy ( L ): Ernesto Lecuona: The Complete Piano Music, Volume 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lecuona was a Cuban composer who occupied the border world between 'classical' music and 'salon' music.
		These performances are incisive, colorful, stylistically very much LECUONA, (with even Lecuona's subtle changes in the scores included in these recordings), researched to a fault, executed with such breadth and depth of interpretation, color and old Cuban style.
		This is a must in your collection, and the standard to which all other Lecuona recordings should be measured and compared.
	classical.video-dvd.com.ru /C_24132/G_B0000016N9/Ernesto-Lecuona-The-Complete-Piano-Music-Volume-1.html (443 words)

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		Tirino is recognized as a leading authority on Ernesto Lecuona’s music and is responsible for its revival.
		He has recorded The Complete Piano Works of Ernesto Lecuona, mastering his rhythmic style and has been chosen as editor for the republication of Lecuona’s piano music.
		Lecuona is considered the most important composer to emerge from Cuba in the first-half of the 20
	www.mdc.edu /press_releases/102203NocheCubana.htm (267 words)

	Ernesto Lecuona sheet music : Ernesto Lecuona music scores (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ernesto Lecuona: 7 Danzas Cubanas Tipicas Composed by Ernesto Lecuona (1895-1963), arranged by Thomas Tirino.
		Ernesto Lecuona: Malaguena - Accordion Composed by Ernesto Lecuona (1895-1963), arranged by.
		Ernesto Lecuona: Malaguena - Percussion/Piano/Xylophone/Marimba Composed by Ernesto Lecuona (1895-1963), arranged by Howard M. Peterson.
	www.charlespiano.com /ernesto_lecuona.php (190 words)

	Ernesto Lecuona (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ernesto Lecuona hijo de un periodista español establecido en la isla de Cuba, nació en Guanabacoa el 7 de Julio de 1986 y muere en el exilio, en Islas Canarias el 29 de noviembre de 1963.
		Podríamos decir además, que con sus zarzuelas más inportantes, Ernesto Lecuona dio forma clásicamente definida a la zarzuela cubana en cuanto a género y estilo se refiere.
		Lecuona poseyó siempre una capacidad especial para la realización escénica y supo explotar todos los medios a su alcance para que las representaciones fueran siempre un éxito.
	www.dmsgbc.sld.cu /gbcoa/lecuona.htm (584 words)

	Open Directory - Arts: Music: Composition: Composers: L: Lecuona, Ernesto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ernesto Lecuona - Brief biographical sketch and Naxos discography.
		Ernesto Lecuona - Filmography listing movies scored or using his works plus acting, singing, and conducting credits from the Internet Movie Database.
		Ernesto Lecuona - Find A Grave entry with birth and death information, photograph, cemetery picture, and interactive memorial.
	dmoz.org /Arts/Music/Composition/Composers/L/Lecuona,_Ernesto (340 words)

	The Lecuona Song
		It's a shame, for Lecuona was a multi-talented artist: bandleader, song writer, serious composer, and pioneer of Latin music in America.
		Lecuona originally wrote the song "Andalucia" as part of his "Spanish Suite." It was later performed by itself by his band, the Lecuona Cuban Boys.
		And as with many of Lecuona's songs, it could be versatile in its applications.
	www.spaceagepop.com /lecusong.htm (588 words)

	Ernesto Lecuona: The Cuban Gershwin
		Lecuona had a Gershwinesque ability to write one gorgeous tune after another, and he composed 406 songs, 176 piano pieces, 53 theater works, 31 orchestral scores, 6 compositions for piano and orchestra, 3 violin works, a trio, 5 ballets and 11 film scores!
		FLAXMAN: Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona's Rapsodia Negra for Piano and Orchestra was performed by the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra under the direction of the American conductor, Michael Bartos, and featuring the American pianist Thomas Tirino.
		FLAXMAN: Ernesto Lecuona's Rapsodia Cubana for Piano and Orchestra, performed by Thomas Tirino at the piano with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Michael Bartos.
	www.compactdiscoveries.com /CompactDiscoveriesScripts/07Lecuona.html (1434 words)

	Ernesto Lecuona Sheet Music
		Composed by Ernesto Lecuona (1895-1963), arranged by Thomas Tirino.
		Composed by Ernesto Lecuona (1895-1963), arranged by Louis Sugarman.
		Composed by Ernesto Lecuona (1895-1963), arranged by Vicente Gomez.
	www.musicverve.com /e/ernesto_lecuona.html (316 words)

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