With a concert-tribute to Eusebio Leal for the 80th anniversary of his birth reopened its doors this Sunday Marti Theater of Havana, after four months in reconstruction work due to the damage suffered by the explosion of the nearby Saratoga Hotelaccording to official media on the island.
The Camerata Romeu, the teachers Frank Fernández and José María Vitier on the piano, the flutist Niurka González and the trio Los ambassadors, among other renowned exponents of Cuban culture, left their best art on stage during the tribute to who was the Historian of the City, according to a office of the Cuban News Agency (ACN).
The media reports that a standing ovation greeted Luis Carlos Guzmán, head of the Cuban Fire Department, whom Perla Rosales, deputy director of the Historian’s Office of the City, awarded for the first time the commemorative medal of the 80th Anniversary of the Birth of Eusebio Leal in honor of those who carried out heroic acts after the accident that occurred in the tourist facility.
The evening hosted songs such as “I pray to the ceiba”, performed by Leo Vera; Danzón a La Habana, with Alejandro Falcón on piano and Janio Abreu on clarinet; and the iconic “Sábanas blanca“, by Gerardo Alfonso, among others, adds the publication.
Vania Borges sang “El boyfriend de La Habana“, a single that gives title to the recently released album that pays tribute to Leal, a co-production of Bis Music and the La Ceiba record label.
In addition, as part of the program hosted by the so-called Hundred Doors Coliseum, the musicalized poem “Siembra” was heard, recited by Alden Knight, and “Profeta del amor”, performed by the Ktalejo Duo, details the ACN.
The Martí Theater, a majestic space that owes so much to Leal in its conservation, returned to welcome the public after four months of intense restoration work, mainly in the carpentry, roofs and false ceilings, after the fatal explosion in the Havana hotel that It cost the lives of 47 people.
Notable patrimonial objects also suffered, such as the painting with the image of the Cuban National Hero José Martí, which was exhibited in the lobby of the theater, and which received several impacts and inlays of glass and solid materials, as a result of the blast wave.
Portrait of José Martí damaged by the explosion at the Saratoga hotel is restored
The canvas required extensive restoration work in the easel painting workshop of the Office of the City Historian, and now returns to its usual position in the enclosure.
Although the results of the investigations have not yet been revealed, the official hypothesis indicates that the explosion was the product of a liquefied gas leak that occurred when a tanker truck was filling a tank with that fuel, located in the upper part of the building. .
