Mario Kuri-Aldana

Mario Kuri Aldana (Tampico, Tamaulipas, August 15, 1931 - Mexico City, January 15, 2013) was a Mexican musician, composer and researcher. He was the author of more than 200 works of different musical genres. He was a professor of composition and ethnomusicology.His first work was the bolero "Gota En El Mar" which he did in co-authorship with his brother Armando Kuri-Aldana, however his best-known work in this genre was "Pagina Blanca" which he co-authored with Guillermo Lepe. Throughout his career he wrote more than 200 musical works of different genres (boleros, sones, concert music, etc.), some of them were made with the co-authorship of composer and dancer Guillermo Arriaga Fernández, composer and musical anthropologist Jorge Daher, of the dancer Josefina Lavalle, of the historian Miguel León-Portilla and of the composer Ventura Romero Armendáriz. He composed the ballet "Dream of a Sunday in the afternoon in the Alameda" which was interpreted by the National Dance Company at the Palace of Fine Arts.