Ramón Calzadilla y el Coro del ICR
Himno de la victoria
Not On Label LD-V-3 · Cuba
- Artist
- Ramón Calzadilla y el Coro del ICR
- Title
- Himno de la victoria
- Release
- Vietnam canta a Cuba - Cuba canta a Vietnam
- Label
- Not On Label # LD-V-3
- Format
- LP · Compilation
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Cuba
- Genre
- Hispanic Music · Nueva canción latinoamericana
- Primary theme
- Vietnamese Patriotic
Notes
LD-V-3, 33 r.p.m., blue labels with silver print, "Hecho en Cuba por EGREM - CNC"; side A is headed "Cuba Canta a Viet-Nam" and side B "Viet-nam Canta a Cuba". Cara A: "Ho Chi Minh: Su nombre puede ponerse en versos" and "Por que" (Pablo Milanés), "Cuento para un niño" (Omara Portuondo), "3,000 pajaros negros" (Silvio Rodríguez), "La hora de todos" (Elena Burke), "David y Goliath" (Carlos Puebla) and "Himno de la victoria" (Ramón Calzadilla y el Coro del ICR); Cara B: "Vietnam-Cuba" (Tran Kiet Tuong), "Marcha de las milicias Cubanas", "Canto a los combatientes de Girón", "Siboney", "Vietnam-Cuba" (Hoang Van) and "Marcha de América Latina", the side B items other than the two "Vietnam-Cuba" songs carrying no performer credit. The front cover shows two large yellow flowers on a red ground; the back carries the tracklist with two black-and-white photographs, a child playing a flute while…
About the artist
Ramon Calzadilla (8 January 1934 - 13 April 2024) was a Cuban baritone, born in Havana, trained at the Conservatorio Hubert de Blanck and then in Rome (Accademia di Santa Cecilia) and Bucharest on government scholarship. He won the 1960 Beniamino Gigli International Singing Contest in Rome and first prize at the 1962 Toulouse International Singing Competition, was soloist baritone of Cuba's National Opera Company from 1960 to 1980, founded the singing department of Cuba's Instituto Superior de Arte in 1977, later taught in Mexico, and died in Cuernavaca in April 2024 at 90. The Coro del ICR…
Themes
From the release Vietnam canta a Cuba - Cuba canta a Vietnam