Un día de noviembre: Leo Brouwer/Humberto Solás

A small homage to guitarist/composer Leo Brouwer, who will be 70 on March 1st (b. Havana, 1 March 1939), and to Cuban film director Humberto Solás, who died on 17 September 2008.

I'm sorry I couldn't find more or better stills from this (very hard-to-locate) film.

Leo Brouwer plays "Un día de noviembre", which he wrote for the sound track of Solás's film by the same name. In the original version, the guitar was accompanied by flute, bass and percussion; Brouwer later transcribed the music for solo guitar.

"The golden age of the Cuban cinema, which reached its peak in the late 1960s, seems miles away from the 1970s, when bureaucracy replaced spontaneity. [During] the first half of the 1970s, [defined] as the grey years, censorship was enforced... Solás suffered from this situation with "Un día de noviembre" (One Day in November, 1972), which he considers his most personal work. Though well received abroad, the film would not be viewed in Cuba until 1978. This painful experience led Solás to a crisis serious enough for him to consider giving up filmmaking."
(from Julie Amiot, in "The Cinema of Latin America", ed. A Elena, M Díaz López, 2003)

Un día de noviembre (1972) Cuba 35 mm 110 min
Director: Humberto Solás/ Script: Humberto Solás and Nelson Rodríguez/ Music: Leo Brouwer

Recording: La obra guitarrística de Leo Brouwer: Vol. I (Brouwer por Brouwer). Egrem, 2000

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• 1972

[gildoXL]

The film is great, much more if your father is the main character jaja. The film is about the life of Humberto Solas (the director), he died few months ago, and the cuban television played the film after that, just like many others films. I have the it on a

DVD but isn´t in english, just spanish. Maybe I can upload to some torrent site. I´ll let you know.

[grenouilleGG]

gildoXL,

That would be fantastic; I've been looking for it for more than a year! ¡Miles de gracias!

[grenouilleGG]

If you find it, please (please please) let me know! I've searched for months and had no luck.

[loquendok07]

@grenouilleGG You can speak spanish? leo great!

[langvarig]

Wonderful Hommage and very informative comments. Thanks. Greetings from Copenhagen. John

[ipoodaily]

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[olaolilla6699]

Me encanta esta canción, ya me he bajado las partituras y le estoy dando a la guitarra. Qué buena.

[Hiroshima49]

@thejugglenaut91 Great player, great artist.....

[thejugglenaut91]

this is leo brouwer playing

[Hiroshima49]

Great music ...great interpretation....might be very close to what it was intended to be...byt he composer... some of the fretted notes were slight out of tune..due to pulling on the string...which made the music sound even more poignant...

[niwatoripanic]

Thnk you for up load this record! This performance is best of other same song performance.

[gildoXL]

ok, U are welcome grenouilleGG, this weekend I'll try upload it to some torrent. Nos vemos