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This Week's Guest:
Carlos Acosta
Sunday 2 January
Repeated
Friday 7 January |
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Carlos's Choice |
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Sue Lawley's castaway is the dancer Carlos Acosta.
Carlos Acosta is one of the greatest ballet dancers of his generation. He is the first black principal dancer at Covent Garden; Tocororo, the show about his own life, that he wrote, choreographed and starred in, broke box office records at Sadlers Wells and in his homeland of Cuba he is a national hero.
But his extraordinary success has followed an even more remarkable journey from the impoverished back streets of Havana. He was the youngest of eleven children and, as a boy, his only ambition was to be a footballer. At the age of nine, his father sent him to ballet school – inspired not by art, but by the promise of free school meals and the hope that his increasingly delinquent son would be brought into line by the strict regime. Carlos hated it, was bullied by his friends and was twice expelled.
The first time, his father persuaded the school to take him back; the second, his father found another ballet school and secured Carlos a place there as a boarder. It was only there, at the age of 13, that he had an epiphany. Seeing the Cuban National Ballet perform he decided he did want to follow that path. At the age of sixteen he travelled for the first time to Europe, he won four major dance competitions in one year and his career as an international ballet dancer was launched.
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1.Echale Limon
Performer NG La Banda
Composer Jose Luis Cortes
Publisher Copyright Control
CD Title Beginners Guide to Cuba: CD2 Jazzy Cuba
Track CD2 trk 2
Label NASCENTE
Rec No: NSBOX 006
2.Variation Basilio
Performer Sofia National Opera Orchestra conducted by Boris Spassov
Composer Léon Minkus
Publisher Capriccio
CD Title Don Quixote
Track Cd2 trk 19
Label Capriccio
Rec No 10 540/41
3.Love Theme
Performer Unione Musicisti of Rome
Composer Andrea Morricone
Publisher BMI music
CD Title Cinema Paradiso Soundtrack
Track 6
Label DRG
Rec NoL: 99501
4.Piano Concerto No.21 in C Major
Performer Malcolm Bilson with the English Baroque Soloists with John Eliot Gardiner
Composer Mozart
Publisher Polydor International
CD Title Mozart: Piano Ctos, Nos 20 & 21
Track 5
Label Archiv
Rec No:4196092
5.Bacalao Con Pan
Performer Irakere
Composer Valdes
Publisher Shake Boom/Cuba Songs Music
CD Title Hot Latin Grooves: La Havana Real
Track 19
Label Piesd
Rec No:065
6 Voodoo Chile
Performer Jimmy Hendrix
Composer Jimmy Hendirx
Publisher MCA
CD Title Electric Ladyland
Track 16
Label MCA
Rec No:MCD 11600
7.Sonata Oriental
Performer Abraham Mansfarroll
Composer Miguel Núñez
Publisher Discs Como
CD Title Tocaroro - Soundtrack
Track 6
Label Discos Como No
Rec No:TOC 001
8.Un Montón de Estrellas
Performer Polo Montañez
Composer Fernando Borrego Linares
Publisher Lusafrica
CD Title Guajiro natural
Track 6
Label Editions Lusafrica
Rec No:362202
Record: Bacalao Con Pan
Book: Dirty Havana Triology by Pedro Juan Gutierrez
Luxury: Case of Havana rum
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