When I wrote last summer about the uncertain future of the Thomes Mann house, I heard from the composer and new-music stalwart Charles Amirkhanian, who informed me of a similar situation affecting the former home of the great experimental composer Conlon Nancarrow, in Mexico City. His widow, Yoko Sugiura Nancarrow, must sell the property, whose conjoined structures were decorated and in part designed by the Mexican painter and architect Juan O'Gorman. Charles tells me that a buyer on the regular market is likely to tear down the complex and build a modern luxury home. Mrs. Nancarrow hopes to sell the property to a person or institution that will preserve the house, studio, and library as a study center or artist's residency. I have no idea whether posting an item here will do anything to advance that aim, but it's worth a try.
