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Students Comments: The course exceeded all my expectations and was a brilliant
learning experience. It was great to get hands on with our instruments,
playing with top Cuban musicians, to find out what makes it all
work and where they're coming from. Beyond the course, going out
to gigs in Havana, watching the way bands work, joining in the
dancing, getting a handle on the whole social interaction that
is part and parcel of the music scene. All that was a treat and
I’ve been enormously inspired by the whole experience. Being
around musicians opened a lot of doors in Havana. The tutors were
great - professional musicians don’t necessarily make good
tutors but they did a good job and made sure we learned a lot
and the gig was excellent, considering the mixed bag of musicians
that we were. The tutors couldn’t have worked harder to
prepare us for it, and we played well.
There wasn’t much room for improvement, everybody on the course got on well together. I would recommend this course to any performing musician wanting to get more deeply involved with Cuban music. Zoe Stevenson’s comments –
Having a go at this was so refreshing and fun and my tutor Arsel always tempered the music to just about within my capabilities, but never made me feel unable to do it, even at such a pace. It was wonderful to be met at the airport and have the taxi waiting to go to the hotel after such a journey the thought of trying to get my brain in gear and come up with the Spanish would have been too much! Everything worked from the shower to the air conditioning and
if there was a problem they fixed it immediately, amazing! It
was good to have sea breeze and being surrounded by palm trees. |