He is a slave in a Cuba occupied and ruled by the Spanish; he escapes to the jungle by smashing his overseer's face with a rock. He is a survivor, alone with nature. In the late 1890s, he fights with ...

If you ask someone about los Llanos — the plains region shared across Venezuela and Colombia — they might talk to you about cowboys. Or at least their modern-day equivalent: ranchers who ride ...

Like the Spanish fandango, the Colombian joropo of Cimarrón, developed on the plains of the Orinoco River, is fierce, stomping and virtuosic, both on stage and on the dance floor. The band will be at ...

In his diaries from a journey to Cuba during the late 1960s, the German composer Hans Werner Henze observed that it was the first time he noticed invisible threads between people. If was as if a ...

The typical joropo song begins with a fast homophonic block of melody and rhythm, stringed instruments led by folk-harp and bandola guitar, and percussion — BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM ...

RIVERSIDE, Conn. “Is Greenwich ready for bestiality?” a well-dressed woman said during the intermission of Hans Werner Henze’s “El Cimarrón” (“The Runaway Slave”), which opened on Thursday evening at ...

With his band, the Grammy and Latin Grammy nominated, Cimarrón, Rojas was leading a resurgence of Colombian joropo music. By Judy Cantor-Navas Colombian musician Carlos “Cuco” Rojas was a master of ...

The South American music joropo often deals with horses and cowboys. The Colombian band Cimarrón has made the genre more inclusive by adding... Los Llanos are home to cowboys. Cimarrón's music ...