•  Press Release December 2005

TANIA LEÓN AWARDED A COMMISSION FROM THE FROMM MUSIC FOUNDATION, HARVARD UNIVERSITY. 

The award is for Tania to write her first string quartet to be performed in the Spring of 2007 by the dynamic Del Sol String Quartet, which recently rose to international attention with their Grammy-nominated 2005 CD of George Antheil's complete string quartets.

<http://www.delsolquartet.com>

DECEMBER 14: LIVE INTERVIEW ON TELEMUNDO.  Tania will appear in the

live program, Noticiero del Mediodia, during which she will be

interviewed by Odalys Medina to speak about her life as a composer and

conductor.  Channels 47 (New York),  51 (Miami), 44 (Chicago), 39

(Dallas), 52 (Los Angeles). Wednesday, December 14 at 11:30am.  Do not

miss it!

DECEMBER 8, 9 and 10: A NEW SPIRITUAL TO BE PREMIERED BY THE ALBANY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. On Thursday, December 8, the Albany Symphony Orchestra will perform Spiritual Project: Part II, an evening featuring classic spirituals newly re-imagined by seven leading American composers and including Tania León's "Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel." The concert, which features Baritone Nathan Myers, will take place at Canfield Casino, Congress Park (Saratoga Springs, NY), and will be repeated on Friday, December 9 at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall (Troy, NY), and on Saturday, December 10, at the First United Methodist Church (Pittsfield, PA).  For more information on each concert or to purchase tickets, visit: <http://www.albanysymphony.com>

READ AN INTERVIEW WITH TANIA in Composers' Voices From Ives to

Ellington, an oral history of American music edited by Vivian Perlis

and Libby Van Cleve, and published this past September by Yale

University Press. The book, and the two CDs that accompany it, is an

exceptional collection of interviews with the most significant musical

figures of our time. Tania León's interview was conducted by Jenny

Raymond on November 13, 1998, and you can read an except by going to:

<http://www.yale.edu/oham/frameexcerpt.html>

"One of the things I  always do is study other composers....When I'm

conducting something, I'm a total detective....I see the technique, see

ways of coloring, see personalities, shapes, graphics, architecture,

space, culture."

--Tania León, Composers' Voices From Ives to Ellington

TO KNOW MORE ABOUT TANIA'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE BROOKLYN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, check out  How Music Grew in Brooklyn, a biography of the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra written by Maurice Edwards, and coming out from Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., this December.  The biography is a full account of the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra from its nineteenth-century forerunner, the Philharmonic Society of Brooklyn, to its current status as house orchestra for the equally impressive Brooklyn Academy of Music and one of the most innovative and respected symphony orchestras of modern times. A chapter is dedicated to the orchestra's Community Concert Series, co-founded by Tania, and for which she served as Music Director from the late 70's to the late 80's.

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