Music Museum Opens to the Public in Holguin
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Casa de la Victrola, a newly opened cultural project in the city of Holguin, now attracts lovers of music, especially those who love the history and ancient music.
This music museum exhibits a collection of recorders and players of mechanical and acoustic sounds created during the nineteenth century and the first three decades of the twentieth century.
There, visitors can find 14 original pieces, including an Edison Phonograph model C (1898), a Victor 1 gramophone (1905) and an Amberola Edison model 30 (1912), manufactured in New Jersey, United States.
All the equipment work thanks to the thorough and constant research and repair work developed by Jorge Luis Betancourt Sanchez, a violinist by profession and passionate lover of history and archeology, to which he joins the exhaustive knowledge of restoration techniques.
Betancourt took interest in the victrolas as of 2011 and since then he has spared no time or financial resources of his own when moving to any place in Holguin or other neighboring provinces, in an effort to restore old music equipment.
This museum, located around the Calixto Garcia Park and prepared with the support of the highest political authorities and the government of Holguin, offers to the public the opportunity of listening to any of the more than one thousand records collected by Jorge Luis Betancourt.
Many of the phonograms contain the best of symphonic music of the last century and original recordings of the famous Italian tenor Enrico Caruso and celebrities of the national pentagram such as Ernesto Lecuona and Rita Montaner.
According to Jorge Luis Betancourt, this is an special space for students of Lyric Art in Holguin, because together with their professors they will be able to attend auditions in which they will appreciate the nuances with which great orchestra conductors or famous singers performed their creations. / ACN
