The Reading Pops Orchestra and four vocalists supplied by Brickhouse Theatre will celebrate Valentine’s Day with “Come to the Cabaret,” a concert that will replicate a circa-1940 nightclub, Saturday ...
Xavier Cugat was a catalan musician and bandleader, born in Spain (Girona, 1 January 1900 – Barcelona, 27 October 1990) who spent his formative years in Havana, Cuba. A trained violinist and arranger, ...
An exotic selection of music from Spain and Latin America will be offered by the brass ensemble, including the Xavier Cugat Orchestra's El Cumbanchero, the Marcha de Zacatecas, Raphael Mendez's La ...
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - Lina Romay, who sang with the Latin-inflected Xavier (ig-ZAY'-vee-yur) Cugat orchestra in the early 1940s before beginning a decade-long career as a film and TV actress, has ...
Band leader Edmundo Ros, who led the introduction of Latin dance music to wartime Britain, died in Spain at the age of 100, friends said this weekend. Xavier Cugat (Catalan pronunciation: ) (1 January ...