Leonardo Balada: A Transatlantic Gaze (Carnegie Mellon University Press Biography)

De Dios, Juan Francisco

ISBN 10: 0887486630 / ISBN 13: 9780887486630

Edité par Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2020

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pp. 328.

N° de réf. du vendeur 369158954

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Leonardo Balada: A Transatlantic Gaze (Carnegie Mellon University Press Biography)
• Éditeur: Carnegie Mellon University Press
• Date de parution: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0887486630
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780887486630
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

Leonardo Balada: A Transatlantic Gaze tells the story of how composer Leonardo Balada journeyed from a childhood and youth overshadowed by the violence of the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath of "the years of hunger" to a new life as a budding composer in New York. Through meticulous historical research and hours of interviews conducted with Balada over six years, biographer Juan Francisco de Dios has produced a unique portrait of the making of an artist. His imaginative eye for detail recreates a sequence of fascinating episodes in social history. We meet adolescent Balada at school, the only boy in a class of girls, view his suffering as a military conscript in the mountains, witness behind-the-scenes conflicts and rivalries in the production of his opera in Barcelona, and get a glimpse of a more settled life when he became an educator of musicians-to-be at Carnegie Mellon University. Throughout, Francisco de Dios delivers riveting description of Balada's music and development as a composer. This biography is an essential contribution to the understanding of a musician who spans continents and the contemporary history and culture of Spain and the United States.

À propos de l?auteur

Juan Francisco de Dios, born in Madrid, is a musicologist who teaches at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.