Enrique Jordá was a Spanish

Spain

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-American

United States

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 conductor

Conducting

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. Born in San Sebastián

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 (Guipúzcoa, Spain

Spain

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), later on he was a naturalized US citizen.

After conducting in Madrid

Madrid

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, Cape Town

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 and Antwerp, he was music director of the San Francisco Symphony

San Francisco Symphony

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 from 1954 to 1963. He made several stereophonic recordings in San Francisco for RCA Victor in 1957 and 1958. His final recordings with the orchestra were for CRI in 1962. During the San Francisco Symphony's 1973 European tour, the musicians were reunited with Jordá for the final time. He is the author of a popular book in Spanish on conducting (El director de orquesta ante la partitura). Jordá died at 84 in Brussels, Belgium following a two-month illness related to a blood transfusion.

His daughter Tessa is married to David William Brewer

David William Brewer

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, Lord Mayor of London

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between 2005 and 2006.