Carnegie Hall Debut Concert
The Alonso Brothers
From Havana to New York
Concert is at Carnegie Hall in New York City
Time & Place
Date: Sunday, Jul. 12, 2026
Time: 7:30 PM
Weill Recital Hall 154 West 57th Street, New York, NY , USA, 10019
To join us in New York, contact us at info@musicatstmary.com
Tickets will be on sale April 12
About
This is not just a concert — it is a sonic journey of two nations, two brothers, and one indelible rhythm of freedom and invention.
We are proud to Close the Music at St. Mary season with a special presentation of The Alonso Brothers’ at Carnegie Hall, presented in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the United States.
From Havana’s rumba halls to Harlem’s jazz clubs, Cuban and American music have danced together for over a century. In this bicentennial tribute, The Alonso Brothers — Cuban-born pianists and lifelong collaborators — trace that vibrant dialogue of migration, memory, resistance, and joy.
The program begins with the nostalgic music of Ignacio Cervantes and Ernesto Lecuona — works shaped in exile, written on American soil as these composers found refuge and a new voice far from home. That tradition continues with contemporary Cuban-born, American-naturalized composers Manuel Valera and Jorge Gómez, whose driving rhythms and lyricism speak to the immigrant experience today.
From there, the music crosses the Straits into the American soundscape — where Tito Puente, Dizzy Gillespie, Leonard Bernstein, Gershwin all bear the unmistakable imprint of Caribbean rhythm and influence.
Together, these works reveal a bilingual, bicultural symphony of the Americas — a celebration not only of anniversaries, but of the shared musical DNA that binds Havana to New York.
Program:
Echoes of Cuba & Rhythms of America
• Ernesto Lecuona – Y la negra bailaba
• Ernesto Lecuona – La Comparsa
• Ernesto Lecuona – Gitanerías
• Jorge Gómez – Para Ti
• Manuel Valera – Centenario (2024)
• Miguel Matamoros - Lagrimas Negras
• Ignacio Cervantes – Adiós a Cuba
• Leonard Bernstein – Mambo from West Side Story
• Dámaso Pérez Prado – Mambo No. 5
• Tito Puente – Oye Como Va