Jesús Bal y Gay was one of the first ten Spaniards invited by President Cárdenas to found the Casa de España in Mexico City. He moved to that country with projects that he had already started in Madrid and had continued in Cambridge. He got the best supporters that anyone could get there: the Mexican composer Carlos Chávez, and his colleagues in exile, Rodolfo Halffter and Adolfo Salazar. His life was very active; he had to produce good and fast, without a pause, with an eye set on an uncertain return to Spain. It was said that he always had his bags packed. Bal had a brilliant career in Mexico as a prestigious intellectual: he was a music critic for El Universal, a musicologist, lecturer, radio executive, essayist, professor, and composer. He was also cofounder of the Conciertos de los Lunes at the Sala Schiefer, the Ediciones Mexicanas de Música, and Nuestra Música, and author of important works, including Tientos, and Chopin. Bal was part of a great team that promoted and enriched Mexican musical life. There were many untold stories, less glamorous activities that he had to do for a living to maintain the extended family that came with Rosita. And also Diana, the art gallery that he and his wife opened in Mexico City, which was like a window open to the world, a breath of fresh air and novel proposals by artists such as Remedios Varo, Vera Stravinsky, and Genzso. But the couple still had their sight focused on the other side of the ocean: was that spot on the horizon the tip of Cape Finisterre?