Leonardo Balada : a transatlantic gaze / Juan Francisco de Dios ; prologues by Leonardo Balada & Fernando Arrabal ; translated by Peter Bush.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Dios, Juan Francisco, author.

Arrabal, Fernando, author of prologue.

Contributor:

Bush, Peter R., 1946- translator.

Standardized Title:

Leonardo Balada. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Balada, Leonardo, 1933-.

Balada, Leonardo.

Composers--Spain--Catalonia--Biography.

Composers.

Composers--United States--Biography.

United States.

Spain--Catalonia.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

325 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2020.

Language Note:

Translated from the Spanish.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Balada Without a Hat

2. Pepito and the Adventures of Nono

3. The Son of an Anarchist

4. The Distant Blast of Bombs

5. The School for Girls

6. Baptism Under Arms

7. From Happenstance to Happening

8. Working in the Dark

9. Elective Affinities

10. Of Friendship and Other Surprises in Writing

11. Feeling Like a Composer

12. Organs and Their Pedals

13. Spain in a Plane

14. Dali's Mustache

15. Scores Are Not for Eating

16. Necessity and Conviction

17. An Aesthetic of Commitment

18. Cela, Maria Sabina and the Mushrooms

19. Paradoxes in Equilibrium

20. Too Human

21. My Transparencies and I

22. The More I Hate You, the More I Need You

23. The Columbus Catharsis

24. Twelve Ways to Look at an Orchestra

25. Balada in the Classroom

26. The Rebellion of Symbols

27. The Orchestra in a Piano

28. Caprichos and Other Venial Sins

29. Memories of Sound.

Notes:

"Leonardo Balada: La Mirada Oceánica was first published in Spanish by Editorial Alpuerto, S.A., Madrid in 2012."--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-319) and index.

ISBN:

9780887486630

0887486630

OCLC:

1145095934