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| Allmusic |
![Buena Vista Social Club - At Carnegie Hall [Live] review](http://www.sweetslyrics.com/poze/l78793lpkji.jpg) It seems very strange that World Circuit/Nonesuch would wait ten long years to issue this historic document of the grand, wildly celebrated Buena Vista Social Club concert at Carnegie Hall. This is the very show so wonderfully and artfully detailed by filmmaker Wim Wenders in his documentary on the project that reunited these then-obscure Cuban music legends for an album and a tour and catapulted them to worldwide fame. Perhaps it was worth the wait; perhaps this music should have been in our midst all along. Of the four older legends, those who had made music together in Cuba before Castro, only Omara Portuondo remains on the Earth, and she is still quite active. The other three, vocalist Ibrahim Ferrer, pianist Rubén González, and guitarist and vocalist Compay Segundo, have passed away -- Segundo lived to be 96! The youngster of the group, guitarist Eliades Ochoa, continues to record and tour....full text |
| Musicomh |
| Ten years after the original release and the documentary that swung its way towards an Oscar, the Buena Vista Social Club finally have a live album released. The Cuban melodies, the rhythms of son, bolero and danzón are still fresh in the memory. It would be almost impossible not to recognize at least Chan Chan, Dos Gardenias, or Siboney if you heard them. They are contemporary Cuban anthems but what we are likely to remember are the mere studio recordings. Astonishing as those were, it's a whole other experience to hear these legendary artists live. This 2-disc album manages to take us closer to the heart of that particular type of experience than the most any live shows ever recorded....full text |
| Popmatters |
| In today’s globalized and mostly capitalist world the effects of musical diplomacy can be overlooked. After all, most any music can be listened to and consumed by anyone most anywhere in the world. Cultural exchanges (albeit by P2P or iTunes) occur regularly, efficiently and subconsciously. Despite its nuanced prevalence, though, profound impacts through musical exchange have been considered for centuries and could still provide opportunities today, with timely releases like the Buena Vista Social Club’s 1997 eponymous debut album and most recently their live recording, At Carnegie Hall. First, it pays to revisit the precedents of what Thomas Jefferson once framed as “reconciling to [his countrymen] the respect of the world” through “the exchange of ideas, information, art and other aspects of culture,” beginning with Van Cliburn. In 1958, the young Texan pianist won the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow—a contest conceived to demonstrate the U.S.S.R.’s cultural superiority. Awarding Cliburn first prize, after a legendary eight-minute standing ovation, required Nikita Khrushchev’s personal approval and warranted a New York City ticker tape parade, the only one ever held for a musician’s triumph....full text |
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