Alejandro L. Madrid is a professor of musicology at Cornell University. He is the author of the award winning In Search of Julian Carrillo and Sonido 13 and coauthor of Danzon: Circum-Caribbean Dialogues in Music and Dance.
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"There is incredible beauty and power in the way this book attends to aesthetics and artists with rigor and care. What sets it apart are Madrid's stunning interviews conducted over several years with Leon and her family, peers, and students. An essential document about an extraordinary artist."--Alexandra T. Vazquez, author of Listening in Detail: Performances of Cuban Music "Alejandro L. Madrid is one of the leading musicologists of our time working on contemporary classical and experimental music, and his wide-ranging narrative on the life and works of the composer, pianist, and conductor Tania Leon perfectly matches her cosmopolitan outlook and incisive creative practice. Leon knew and worked with many of the leading cultural figures of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and Madrid's intricate 'contrapuntal' dialogue with his subject shows in exquisite detail how and why Tania Leon has exercised an incalculable impact on the expressive culture of our time."--George E. Lewis, author of A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music