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,...
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