![]() ![]() In 2000 she introduced a dramatic song cycle based on Wharton writings at an international conference in Newport, R.I. "I'd start improvising when my part was over, and it just grew from there," she said.ĭrawn to the music of Charles Ives and Aaron Cope land - "and the period in Paris in the 1920s when all the artists converged together" - she became an interdisciplinary composer, leading a busy career composing for the concert hall as well as for dance, film and theater, and performing with her ensemble, the Encore Chamber Players, at venues including the Lincoln Center.īlock described her compositions as centering around novel instrumentation, interesting texts, artworks and poems. In a recent phone interview, Block explained she started out as a performing flutist. on Saturday, and will talk on Sunday at noon at Lenox Library, where an historical exhibit on the original sledding incident is on display. She will also introduce her work at a lecture demonstration with singers at The Mount at 4 p.m. ![]()
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