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Cuban National Art School student Betsy Brizuela plays the oboe as Minnesota Orchestra oboe player John Snow conducts a master class in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, May 14, 2015. The Minnesota Orchestra will offer two concerts in Havana and is the first major U.S. orchestra to play in Cuba since 1999. The trip cost nearly $1 million. It was underwritten by Marilyn Carlson Nelson, an heir to the Carlson hotel company fortune, and her husband Glen. The U.S. government gave special permission for a direct charter flight from Minneapolis to Havana for the event, putting 4 tons of equipment and 160 people on an Airbus 330. (Photo by Desmond Boylan/AP Photo)
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