Lecuona

Fiery affairs devouring lust disastrous jealousy broken hearts brutal longing contempt rancor and indifference in lyrics that border on the kitsch and dazzlingly beautiful melodies these are the exuberantly romantic songs written by Ernesto Lecuona 18951963 They captivated choreographer Rodrigo Pederneiras in the mideighties and two decades later in 2004 GRUPO CORPO celebrated the alltime greatest genius of Cuban music opening for the first time since 1992 an exception to the house rule that the dance company would only dance to soundtracks especially composed for them The result is a 38minute ballet simply called Lecuona an infatuating sequence of pasdedeux followed by a single ensemble number created by Rodrigo Pederneiras to twelve aching love songs and one Waltz by the famous composer of Siboney Lecuona has a singular character among all the other ballets by GRUPO CORPO