Alejandro García Caturla : a Cuban composer in the twentieth century / Charles W. White.

Author/creator White, Charles W., 1929-
Format Book
Publication InfoLanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2003.
Descriptionxxxii, 263 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, music ; 23 cm + 1 CD (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Subjects
García Caturla, Alejandro, 1906-1940.
Composers--Cuba. --Biography.

Contents 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 Orquesta 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.
Abstract 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.
Bibliography note"Catalogue of compositions by Alejandro García Caturla": pages 229-236.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 237-244) and indexes.
LCCN 2002008914
ISBN0810843811 (alk. paper)

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