Tag: Tania Leon
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WPA News Digest – December 2, 2024
There’s lots to be excited about for women in music as we kick off December! (Including a few gift ideas.) On Wednesday November 27, the Raices Negras Trio performed at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. The group featured three members of the larger Raíces Negras Collective (pictured left): Dr.…
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Tania León’s Stride: A Review
When considering that the canon of western art music is based in a system of white supremacy and patriarchy, it is a sad truth that most of the music that is presented in classrooms and concert halls is written by dead, white, men. Scholars continue to spend great amounts of time in archives, studying scores,…
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Monday Link Round Up: September 6, 2021
Music and news to start your week! Violinist Jennifer Koh, pictured above, turned the pandemic – and the silencing of the performing arts industry – into an opportunity to collaborate and create in a new way. She contacted composers and commissioned 40 new works for solo violin. The composers included Tania León, Missy Mazzoli, Angélica…
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Monday Link Round Up: June 14, 2021
News and music to start your week! Tremendous congratulations go to Tania León who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for music for her work entitled Stride. Commissioned by the New York Philharmonic as part of their 19th Amendment Anniversary commissioning project, Stride was premiered at Lincoln Center just prior to the shutdown due to Covid 19. Read…