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Alejandro L. Madrid, Professor and Chair at Cornell's Department of Music, has recently published his book Tania León's Stride. A Polyrhythmic Life as part of the University of Illinois Press' Music in American Life series. In this book, Madrid draws on oral history, archival work, and ethnography to offer the first in-depth biography of composer...
Senior Lecturer Annie Lewandowski will present her installation Siren: Composers of the Sea at Mass MoCA on January 22, 2022 with collaborators Kyle McDonald and Amy Rubin. Siren immerses listeners in Lewandowski’s detailed recordings of humpback whale song, made with pioneering bioacoustician Katy Payne and the Hawaii Marine Mammal Consortium....