Tania Le's Stride: A Polyrhythmic Life (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780252086014)

Acclaimed composer, sought-after conductor, esteemed educator, tireless advocate for the arts--Tania Le's achievements encompass but also stretch far beyond contemporary classical music. Alejandro L. Madrid draws on oral history, archival work, and ethnography to offer the first in-depth biography of the artist. Breaking from a chronological account, Madrid looks at Le through the issues that have informed and defined moments in her life and her professional works. Le's words become a starting ground--but also a counterpoint--to the accounts of the people in her orbit. What emerges is more than an extraordinary portrait of an artist's journey. It is a story of how a human being reacts to the challenges thrown at her by history itself, be it the Cuban revolution or the struggle for civil and individual rights.

Nuanced and multifaceted, Tania Le's Stride looks at the life, legacy, and milieu that created and sustained one of the most important figures in American classical music.

Author: Alejandro L. Madrid
ISBN-10: 0252086015
ISBN-13: 9780252086014
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Language: English
Published: 01/18/2022
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2022