1. La Fiesta del Fuego: The Antonio Gomezanda Papers at Northwestern University
Morris S. Levy
February 24, 2017

2. Invitation from the Director of Culture and Education in Lagos de Moreno, Mexico

3. Gomezanda at Northwestern
1988
Jorge Velazco, Mexican conductor and musicologist, contacts Don Roberts
Roberts contacts Yolanda Gomezanda de Macías
1989
Roberts travels to Mexico City to assess archive
1990
Northwestern purchases archive for $5,000
Roberts returns to Mexico City to bring back music manuscripts
1993
The rest of the archive is shipped to Evanston
2013
Archive processed by Morris Levy

4. Description of the collection
Approximately 12 linear feet
Music manuscripts ( )
Stage music (operas, ballets)
Orchestral music
Piano concertos
Vocal music (piano and orchestral accompaniment)
Band music
Chamber music
Piano music
Sketchbooks
Printed music ( )
Ediciones Gomezanda
Other publishers (A. Wagner y Levien, Maurice Senart)
Ephemera ( )
Playbills, programs, clippings, photographs, diaries

5. Gomezanda at 11 months

6. First known as a piano prodigy

7. European tour (1921)

8. Opens piano school for children (1925)

9. La Fiesta del Fuego (“Xiuhtzitzquilo”) (1925) Piano score published by Maurice Senart (1928)

10. La Fiesta del Fuego premieres in Berlin (Feburary 19, 1928)

11. Ediciones “Gomezanda” (1931-1935)

12. Opera Ranchera (1935)

13. Piano Method Book (1942)

14. Fantasía Ranchera (filmed 1944; released 1947)

15. Fantasía Ranchera (filmed 1944; released 1947)

16. Fantasía Ranchera (filmed 1944; released 1947)

17. Gomezanda’s obituary

18. Juanita Martin Ulloa’s Thesis

19. ¡Gracias!