Away from the intensive tourist touting of rum and cigars, the endless but rather limited repertoire of Son and Salsa, and the cheesy Hemingway trail there is a quiet civility about Havana that would seem to hold many lessons for modern urban living.
Miloš calls this piece "the holy grail of the guitar repertoire and an endless source of inspiration".
With howler monkeys, anteaters, ocelots, margays, jaguarundis, dolphins, giant turtles, and an endless variety of birds, the repertoire of species is both atypical and dazzling.
Even more powerful than the conductors were the soloists: legendary pianists such as Vladimir Horowitz, commanding staggering fees and performing the same repertoire of works on endless tours, basked in the kind of réclame bestowed on film stars.
If at times he seems overcome by the physical demands of the role – with its endless lifting, it's probably the hardest in the male repertoire – this only emphasises the humanity of his performance.
"Trenton is an artist who completely inhabits his images, and who has a rare capacity for engaging a repertoire of forms and motifs to develop a seemingly endless series of variations on a profound core idea," Lawrence Rinder, curator of the 2002 Whitney Biennial, wrote in an e-mail.
