AW.: Re: Getting rid of the middleman

In einer Nachricht vom 12/11/99 10:27:00 AM (MEZ) Mitteleurop�ische
Zeitschreibt clumma@nni.com:

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>He was an American composer who lived in exile in Mexico City.

Actually, I remember reading that he was a citizen of both the US and
Mexico. I don't believe he was ever exiled from the US. He just preferred
Mexico.

-Carl >>

After Mr. Nancarrow's return from the Spanish Civil War, where he fought with
the Lincoln Brigade, the US withdrew his passport. He was, as they say,
"prematurely anti-fascist". Without a US passport, his travel was restricted
to Canada or Mexico, and he found the latter more interesting and attractive.
After settling in Mexico and taking Mexican citizenship, he made only one
"undercover" trip the the US to purchase materials for equipment. On the
basis of newspaper articles (including one describing the refusal to allow
Luigi Nono to attend his mother-in-law's (Gertrude Schoenberg's) funeral
before the intervention of Senator Kennedy) and word-of-mouth in the old left
expatriot American community in Mexico he was of the belief that he would not
be allowed to visit the US. It was only late in his life, first for an
appearance at the Cabrillo Music Festival in 1981, that this matter would be
officially cleared up. Unfortunately, by that time his health was so weakened
that he restricted himself to one trip outside Mexico each year.