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KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Speaking of Music: Tania León, 1985, 2 of 2

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Event Type
Interview and Music
Origin
KPFA
Identifier
SOM.1985.09.19.B
Program Series
Speaking of Music
Program Length
104 min
Part
2 of 2
Dates
1988-04-18 | broadcast
| 1985-09-19 | created
Description
Recorded on September 19, 1985 as part of the San Francisco Exploratorium’s Speaking of Music series, the Cuban-born composer, Tania León, talks with Charles Amirkhanian before an enthusiastic audience at the McBean Theater in San Francisco, about her work as composer, conductor, concert producer, and arts activist. At 23, a graduate of the Havana Conservatory of Music, León moved to the United States where she was a co-founder of the Dance Theater of Harlem. She remained with the company until 1978 when she resigned to devote more time to composing. She has conducted orchestras in Germany, Italy, South Africa, The Netherlands, and New York, organized a number of concert series and festivals, taught at Harvard, Yale, and the University of Michigan, and is currently a Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York. In this program she introduces a number of her pieces, ranging from works for solo piano, acappella chorus, orchestra, and jazz ensemble, as well as a lengthy excerpt from an experimental concert in which the audience members were invited to interact with the musicians on stage.
Genres
20th century classical
Musical Selections
[music from the play “First Night Out”] (2:14) -- Permutation Seven [start of the piece] (1981) (17:00) -- Permutation Seven [end of the piece] (1981) (1:20)
Subjects
20th century classical
Composition (Music)
Jazz
Sextets (Clarinet, flute, trumpet, percussion, violin, cello)
Interactive art
Acknowledgment
Funding for the preservation of this program made possible through a grant by Save America’s Treasures, a program of the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.
Related places
San Francisco (Calif.) (was recorded at)
Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)
Related Entities
Amirkhanian, Charles
León, Tania