Week 9

 

Tania León, Thomas Adès

 

Read

 

Joseph Auner, "Border Crossings,” in Music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries (NY: W. W. Norton, 2013), 301-302.

Robert Raines, “Interview with Tania León,” in Composition in the Digital World: conversations with 21st century American composers (Oxford University Press, 2015), 189–201.

Drew Massey,"Introduction," in Thomas Adès in Five Essays (Oxford University Press, 2020),1-7.

Additional Sources

 

Alejandro Madrid, "The Body is a Vehicle for Traveling the World: A Conversation with Tania León" (in English and Spanish), Americas : A Hemispheric Music Journal 29 (2020): 109-120.

Listen

 

Scores in week 9 packet

 

León, Indígena for large chamber ensemble (1991).

Adès, Movement IV, Stars, Sun, Moon from In Seven Days for piano and orchestra (2008)