Roldán’s ballet La rebambaramba

1928-01-01 · 1928

In 1928 Roldán wrote La rebambaramba, a ballet — dance theater with orchestra — about Three Kings Day (January 6) in 1830s Havana. Carnival street groups (comparsas) fill the plaza. It became the piece of his that other cities played most. “La rebambaramba (1928), a colonial ballet in two scenes based on a local event.” “La rebambaramba has remained as the most famous of his scores, having been performed in Mexico, Paris, Berlin, Budapest, Los Angeles, and Bogota.” — Alejo Carpentier, Cuban novelist and music historian, Music in Cuba, trans. Alan West-Durán, ed. Timothy Brennan (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001), pp. 272–273.

Genres: Música clásica, Conga