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It is around 14 kilometers from the city of Santiago de Cuba, on the road to Playa Siboney. It was the starting point for the young soldiers of the Centenary Generation who, lead by Fidel Castro were involved In the attack to the Moncada Garrison on July 26, 1953. It is a masonry building, painted in white and red with a corridor of arecas from the entrance to the doorway. Today the house is a museum to let people know its history, the previous activities done prior the attack, the development of the facts and their consequences.
It was created in 1969. Its first members were: Leo Brouwer Silvio Rodríguez, Pablo Milanés, Noel Nicol, Eduardo Ramos, Sergio Vitier, Leonardo Acosta and later Emiliano Salvador, Pablo Menéndez, Sara González and Amaury Pérez, among others. The aim of ICAIC authorities was to get a group of creators, who were dispersed, together. They had to do a collective, analytical, deep and political and social work about the popular music; with Leo Brower as the director. The name of the Grupo de Experimentación Sonora would indicate the working system they had proposed. It was an experimental analysis of the musical product.
It was officially created on May 27th, 1988. Among the aims of this group we can mention the creation of the basis for the Integral Development of the city of Havana. To elaborate a strategy for the urban development to improve the living conditions of the population was another of its aims. The Group includes advisers who are architects, engineers, sociologists, economists and other specialists of other fields interrelated with the urban development. In coordination with other state associations some studies are done by this group to solve the main problems of the city. In the same way workshops have been organized to study the integral transformation of specific neighborhoods of the Cuban capital city. Some projects of great importance have also been advised from the architectural and engineers point of view by this Group. There is a big model of Havana city in the main building of the Group in Street 28 between Primera and Tercera, Miramar.
It was created on February 28, 1958 by eight outstanding artists, among them the brothers Vicente and Raquel Revuelta. It had its genesis in 1956 with the premiere of "Juana de Lorena", by Maxwell Anderson, according to an adaptation of the original by Julio García Espinosa and Vicente Revuelta and directed by the latter. Teatro Estudio's first performance was "Journey of a Long Day into Night", by Eugene O'Neill. It was very well received by the public and by the specialized critics, who awarded it the prizes for best direction, best male and female performances and best scenography in 1958...
In 1964 the group would settle definitively in the Hubert de Blanck Hall, in Vedado.