Musician Edmundo López was born in 1922 in Victoria de las Tunas, Oriente Province, Cuba. At age 12, he began his musical studies in Havana and later traveled to New York City and London, England to complete his advanced studies. He taught as a music professor at the Universidad de Santiago de Cuba in the 1960s and traveled widely to deliver seminars and talks on Cuban music and musical theory. López also published several works and bibliographies on Cuban music. He died in New York City in 1992.
From its origins in three classrooms in 1950, the Lowe Art Museum has been committed to fulfilling its mission to serve the University of Miami as a teaching resource, and the residents of and visitors to greater Miami as a major general art museum. With the gift in 1950 by philanthropists Joe and Emily Lowe, this free-standing museum facility opened to the public in 1952 as the first art museum in South Florida. Its 17,500–object collection is one of the most important in the southeast, with strengths in Renaissance and Baroque, American, Ancient and Native American, and Asian art.
