Marco Rizo papers, 1938-1999, (bulk 1950-1998 )
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Rizo, Marco.
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Perfomer, composer, and arranger, Marco Rizo was born in Santiago, Cuba in 1920. Coming from a musical family, Rizo studied popular and classical music forms from an early age and he had become an accomplished classical pianist by the age of sixteen. In 1938 he moved to Havana where he joined that city's Philharmonic. He immigrated to the United States in 1940 and continued his studies at Juilliard until 1942, when he joined the war effort as a performer in the 2nd Army ...