A Death in Zamora

by Ramon Sender Barayon

Overview

Ramón Sender Barayón was born in Madrid during Red October in 1934 as the Spanish Civil War was unfolding. During the next year his father fought briefly with the Republican army against Franco's Falangists and his mother returned to her home in Zamora.

In 1936, his father left Spain with him and his sister, Adriana, and after periods in France and Switzerland, in 1939 his father booked tickets to New York on the USS Manhattan. In the United States, his father left him and his sister with foster parents.

The question Ramon asked was: What happened with my mother? His father refused to give him any information. Following his father's death in 1982, he returned to Spain to find the answer.

This is a gripping, wonderful, and profound story. It takes us through the Spanish Civil War. We meet Ramon's family. We meet people who lived through the war. And Ramon finds the answer.

In a brief paragraph introducing the book, he wrote, "This pilgrimage, also one of self-discovery, has brought me to where I now address all beings, starting with myself, with kind regard and compassion."

Product Details

BN ID:	2940157593032
Publisher:	Intelligent Arts Inc.
Publication date:	03/12/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	477 KB

About the Author

Composer, visual artist and writer, Ramón Sender Barayón was the co-director, with Morton Subotnick, of the San Francisco Tape Music Center from 1962 to 1966. During that time he collaborated with composers and visual artists including Pauline Oliveros, Tony Martin, Joseph Byrd, Terry Riley, William Maginnis, and many others in the San Francisco art world at the time. He also collaborated with Don Buchla in the design of the first Buchla synthesizers.

In 1966, with Ken Kesey and Stewart Brand, he co-produced the Trips Festival, a three-day event that, in conjunction with The Merry Pranksters, brought together the nascent hippie movement for the first time.

Following 1966, he was a resident at Lou Gottlieb's Morning Star Ranch, then the Ahimsa Ranch. He lived and worked in and around Occidental, California, until 1979, then collaborated with author Alicia Bay Laurel on 'Being of the Sun'. In 1989, he founded the Peregrine Foundation, of which he was the administrator until 1999.

He holds a B. Mus from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Robert Erickson, and an M.A. from Mills College, where he studied with Darius Milhaud. He currently lives in San Francisco and works as an artist, musician, and author.