Birth Name:

Rolando Valdés-Blain

Male

Birth Date:

Tue, Feb 21, 1922

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Havana, Havana, Cuba

Age:

102

Zodiac Sign:

Pisces

Astrology Data:

Sun

2°

Pis

19'

About Rolando Valdés-Blain

Rolando Valdés-Blain (8 March 1922 – 2 April 2011) was a Cuban classical guitarist, born in Havana, and immigrated to New York as a child. In the 1930s he and his brother Alberto had a weekly music show on WNYC radio. He served in Burma from 1942 to 1946 during World War II and afterwards studied at the Madrid Royal Conservatory, where he was awarded the Grand Prize for concert guitar playing by Joaquín Rodrigo. He toured worldwide under the management of impresario Sol Hurok and his United States tours as guitar soloist included Yale University, Carnegie Recital Hall, and the Spanish Ballet. He was one of the pioneering classical guitarists to perform as soloist together with a symphony orchestra, in 1955 with the Radio City Music Hall Symphony Orchestra and the Joffrey Ballet at the New York City Center. He appeared in Tennessee Williams's Broadway play Camino Real and he also composed the music for the play Bullfight. He was vice-president and adviser of Manuel Velazquez guitars and founder of the Guitar Department at the Manhattan School of Music. In 1968 he was invited to give a command performance at the White House. The New York Times called his performance "a musical gem…reflecting every baroque nuance of the music".

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Rolando Valdés-Blain: Sun 2 Pisces, Moon 6 Capricorn, Mercury 17 Aquarius, Venus 5 Pisces, Mars 1 Sagittarius, Jupiter 18 Libra, Saturn 6 Libra, Uranus 9 Pisces, Neptune 14 Leo, Pluto 8 Cancer, Mercury Opposition Neptune, Sun Conjunct Venus, Sun Square Mars, Sun Sesquiquadrate Jupiter, Sun Conjunct Uranus, Mercury Trine Jupiter, Venus Square Mars, Venus Sesquiquadrate Jupiter, Venus Quincunx Saturn, Venus Conjunct Uranus, Venus Trine Pluto, Mars Semi Square Jupiter, Saturn Quincunx Uranus, Saturn Square Pluto, Uranus Trine Pluto

Categories related to Rolando Valdés-Blain: 2011 deaths, 20th-century American male musicians, Cuban emigrants to the United States, American male guitarists, February 21 births, 20th-century classical musicians, American classical guitarists, Manhattan School of Music faculty, 1922 births, Cuban male guitarists, Cuban classical guitarists

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