Alto Podcast

My guest is composer Cecilia Livingston. She talks to me about: - her work on the opera about the Franklin expedition (Opera 5). WHAT WERE THEY THINKING? Terror and Erebus indeed. - being mentored by Steve Reich - on how the sexual difference makes itself known in composition - whether music is always ideological, no matter the composer's intention - Bach, Debussy, Britten, John Luther Adams, opera Nixon in China, Steve Reich again, Julia Wolfe - Sarah Kirkland Snider's article 'Candy Floss & Merry-Go-Rounds: Female Composers, Gendered Language, and Emotion' (NewMusicBox, May 17, 2017)