When Ariel Serrano was just 11 – growing up in Santiago de Cuba and not much interested in the classical ballet training the Cuban government had selected him for the year before – he saw a ballet ...

It’s been a dream of mine to do such a thing – a festival hosted by a symphony orchestra,” she said. Honorary director of the ...

Cuba is roughly 1,300 miles away, but in a rehearsal space in downtown Manhattan, it doesn’t feel all that far. Cradling their percussion instruments, horns, and guitars, a ten-piece band of musicians ...