Playing Lecuona is, on its surface, an idiosyncratic and tightly, even myopically focused documentary on the Cuban composer and pianist Ernesto Lecuona. But by going narrow, this movie also goes deep.

The Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona (1896-1963) doesn’t readily fall into any of our current pre-fab musical categories. His better- known compositions tended to be short, colorful, dance- inflected ...

Composer Ernesto Lecuona was known as "The Cuban Gershwin." Lecuona was a dominant figure in Cuban musical life, Latin America, and even in the U.S. He found enormous commercial success composing for ...

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