Name: Ensemble Connect
Start: 2024-02-20T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-02-20T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Carnegie Hall

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New York City

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Weill Recital Hall

Ensemble Connect: De Memorias León, T. (+3 More)

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De Memorias

seven sisters paint the earth

Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout

Quintet in E-flat major, Op.16

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Tania León is a national treasure whose achievements as a composer, conductor, educator, and advocate are singular. Since moving from Havana in the late 1960s, she has become one of New York’s most irrepressible forces in arts and culture, including her roles as Dance Theatre of Harlem’s first music director, new music advisor at the New York Philharmonic, co-founder of Sonidos de las Américas with the American Composers Orchestra, and founder and artistic director of the commissioning, presenting, and advocacy organization Composers Now. León’s recent milestones include the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Music and being named a 2022 Kennedy Center honoree. From solo and chamber works to orchestra, ballet, musical theater, and opera, her vibrant music defies
categorization.

“De Memorias”  
Written by Tania León  
Songs of Peer, Ltd. obo itself and Iroko Music (ASCAP)   
Performed by Ensemble Connect  
   
“Indígena”  
Written by Tania León  
Songs of Peer, Ltd obo itself and Iroko Music (ASCAP)   
Performed by Continuum; Richard Kelley, trumpet; Tania León, conductor  
New World Records  
  
“Rítmicas”  
Written by Tania León  
Songs of Peer, Ltd. obo itself and Iroko Music (ASCAP)   
Performed by the Grossman Ensemble  
Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition  
  
“Toque”  
Written by Tania León  
Songs of Peer, Ltd. obo itself and Iroko Music (ASCAP)  
Performed by the London Sinfonietta  
Recording courtesy of the London Sinfonietta
  
“Inura”  
Written by Tania León  
Songs of Peer, Ltd. obo itself and Iroko Music (ASCAP)   
Performed by Son Sonora Voices; Son Sonora Ensemble; DanceBrazil Percussion; Tania León, conductor   
Albany Records 

Archival Footage and Photos: 
Alarm Will Sound  
Rob Davidson, courtesy of the Miller Theatre at Columbia University  
Ensemble Modern 
The Harlem Chamber Players  
Henry Lopez   
Marbeth / ChromaDiverse, Inc. 
Erin Patrice O’Brien 
Carole Parodi   
John Rogers   
Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra         
Cherylynn Tsushima  

Photos by Marbeth, courtesy of ChromaDiverse, Inc. © 2022–2023. All rights reserved.

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Tania León: 2023-2024 Debs Composer's Chair | Carnegie Hall

Ensemble Connect explores the past, present, and future of classical music with a spirit of adventure and endless possibility. In this wide-ranging program, the musicians perform the New York premiere of a Carnegie Hall–commissioned work by inti figgis-vizueta, a composer whose music “feels sprouted between structures, liberated from certainty and wrought from a language we’d do well to learn” (The Washington Post). They also perform Beethoven’s Quintet for Piano and Winds in E-flat Major; the adventuresome Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout, an early career highlight by the versatile composer Gabriela Lena Frank; and De Memorias, a woodwind quintet by Carnegie Hall’s brilliant 2023–2024 Debs Composer’s Chair, Tania León.

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Ensemble Connect by León, T., Vizueta, Frank, G. L., Beethoven, From (2024/2024), Carnegie Hall, New York City, United States

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