HAVANA, Cuba. – Along with the Amadeo Roldan Conservatory Symphony, the Chicago Harp Quartet will provide offer two concerts in Cuba.

The shows will be next Friday and Saturday, in the Covarrubias Hall of the National Theater, and will have as protagonists the harps ensemble leader in North America.

Specialists revealed this would be the first time in more than seventy years that a quartet of that instrument performs in Cuba, where it has never been seen a group of this kind playing as a soloist of a symphony orchestra.

Cuban composer Alfredo Rolando Ortiz he wrote for the Chicago Harp Quartet the theme Pensamiento (Thought), to make his world premiere in Havana. They will play also Sueño cubano después de la tormenta (A Cuban Dream after a Storm) by the same author, some classics as one of the famous Hungarian Rhapsody by Franz Liszt.