Bridges to Cuba: A Celebration of Poet Jose Martí and Legendary Composer Aurelio de la Vega
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Add to Calendar 2015-09-27 14:30:00 2015-09-27 17:30:00 Bridges to Cuba: A Celebration of Poet Jose Martí and Legendary Composer Aurelio de la Vega Doheny Memorial Library 02:30 pm 05:30 pm America/Los_Angeles public
Please join Dean Catherine Quinlan and the Friends of the USC Libraries for a celebration of the most important living classical composer from Cuba, Aurelio de la Vega. A discussion with de la Vega, documentary filmmaker Camilo Vila, film editor Kert Vander Meulen, and USC Prof. Roberto I. Diaz will precede a screening of Aurelio: Rebel with a Cause. At the reception, we are proud to rededicate a bust, donated to the USC Libraries Boeckmann Center by Yolanda Lorente, of famous 19th-century Cuban poet and patriot Jose Martí.
2:30 p.m. Exhibition of Aurelio’s archive, Special Collections (room 206)
3:00 p.m. Panel discussion and screening, Friends Lecture Hall (room 240)
4:30 p.m. Reception and dedication of Jose Martí bust, Intellectual Commons (room 233)