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Horns to Havana Trip Report
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SEPTEMBER 12, 2011
WE ARE BACK FROM A WONDERFUL WEEK IN HAVANA
The Horns to Havana's lyrical cultural exchange between the American jazz community and Cuban music students, based on music with deeply shared African as well as European roots was an extraordinary success!
Key to our all-volunteer effort have been some astoundingly productive partnerships. The most significant has been with RS Berkeley Musical Instruments, donor of a full orchestra’s worth of brand new reeds, brass, string and percussion instruments to the Amadeo Roldán Conservatory. Les Silver, Berkeley’s CEO has also helped us purchase other instruments and parts at substantial discounts.
Other important partners include the Sheldon Concert Hall’s Music for Lifelong Achievement Program in Saint Louis, PlazaCuba in the San Francisco Bay area and the (anonymous) donor that started us off with a matching grant of $75,000.
The Center for Cuban Studies in New York served as a base for our activities. But many, many individuals helped us make this a successful effort. In addition to 120 first class trumpets, trombones, saxes, drums and other instruments, we delivered a hundred recorders for younger children and boxes of reeds, strings, bows, mouthpieces, pads for reed instruments, valve oil, and a variety of other parts to mend old or broken instruments. “We want to thank everyone who helped,” says Susan Sillins, a Horns to Havana co-founder.
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