Alejandro García Caturla : a Cuban composer in the twentieth century
This is a biography of Alejandro Garcia Caturla (1906-1940), including interviews with members of Caturla's family, photographs and maps of Cuba from Caturla's time, a bibliography and list of works, and a CD of music by Caturla never before heard outside Cuba
Biographies
xxxii, 263 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
9780810843813, 0810843811
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Family background and early musical influences
Havana : the university years
Emergence of a new image : lawyer-composer
Paris : studies abroad
From Paris to Remedios and beyond
Barcelona : Festivales Sinfónicos Ibero-Americanos
Return to Paris
Eminent and distinguished son of Remedios
Interlude : transition from apprentice to local celebrity
Sociedad de Música Contemporánea : Cowell and Slonimsky in Havana
Bound to the interior
Rebirth of liturgia : yamba-o
New standards for old forms
Reality of life in Remedios
Aftermath of Caturla's Orquestra de Conciertos de Caibarién
Self-renewal "To unite is the word of order "
Culmination of a creative ideal : Manita en el suelo
Ranchuelo : Caturla as defender of worker's rights
Isolation and premonitions of death
The final years : return to Remedios
Caturla's legacy : a new perspective