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New Music: Arsenio Díaz Reimagines a Cuban Modernist

“The highest form of tradition is not preservation. It is renewal.”

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Tomás Peña
Jul 07, 2026
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Nearly ninety years after Cuban composer, violinist, and Afrocubanismo pioneer Amadeo Roldán redefined the possibilities of twentieth-century music, guitarist, composer, and sitarist Arsenio Díaz returns to the master's groundbreaking work—not to recreate it, but to reimagine it for a new generation of listeners.

His new recording, Roldán Transmutado, is…

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