You Must Remember This: A Memoir of Travels and Other Stories in the Life of a Classical Composer

ISBN-10: 153948341X
ISBN-13: 9781539483410
Series: You Must Remember This
Pages: 92
Language: English
Published: 2016-11-06
Author: James Lewis

Description

James Lewis' love of music led to a career as both a professor and composer, marked in later years by a more adventuresome spirit that possessed him to sail solo from Florida to Cuba, the first American composer to visit the embargoed island nation since the Cuban Revolution in 1959. In this short volume of choice stories, we learn about his youth and musical education, time spent at the famed MacDowell Colony, his extraordinary relationship to Cuba, the historic Mexican town to which he has retired, and his family of origin. We also laugh in relief as he recounts a classic traveler's tale of getting lost from a cruise ship in Cambodia.