HAVANA (AP) — Lilting wind tones filled the pillared hall of a historic former church in Old Havana on Friday as a quintet of musicians from Florida performed in the latest of a string of U.S.-Cuban cultural exchanges that have increased in recent years.
The five members of the Tampa-based Florida Orchestra, all principals on their instruments, played an all-wind program of works from George Gershwin and five other composers during the evening recital at the San Felipe Neri Oratory, which dates to 1693 and was used as a bank for part of the 20th century before reopening as a concert hall in 2004.
"It's a historic opportunity to play in such a place," bassoonist Anthony Georgeson told The Associated Press. "I never thought that I'd be in Havana playing a concert."
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