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About this time a couple years ago, Talea was getting ready to perform a portrait concert of Boulez’s works at Miller Theatre.  Boulez had been with us for the few rehearsals leading up to the performance and we were honored to have David Robertson, conductor of St. Louis Symphony and former music director of Ensemble  Continue Reading »

  Your new work, SynchroniCities is a play on words; you’ve turned it into a compound word: time and place. I understand you took field recordings in different locations and worked them into the piece. What inspired you to do this? And can you describe the processes involved in incorporating these recordings? I was interested  Continue Reading »

                Columbia Professor, legendary trombonist, improvisor and scholar George Lewis speaks a bit about his new work for Talea and about his compositional approach.     Talea will be premiering your work, Mnemosis, on December 14th. What was the point of departure for this piece? Mnemosis draws inspiration from  Continue Reading »

    Composer, saxophonist Steve Lehman fields questions about his work and his upcoming piece, Khalid. Can you talk a bit about how you found yourself choosing to study music composition first at Wesleyan while concurrently at the Hartt School of Music and then later at Columbia? What attracted you to these institutions? Well, my parents  Continue Reading »