{"id":3096,"date":"2022-06-04T12:03:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timcorpus.net\/?p=3096"},"modified":"2022-08-05T12:15:53","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T17:15:53","slug":"letters-home-on-bbc-radio3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timcorpus.net\/index.php\/2022\/06\/04\/letters-home-on-bbc-radio3\/","title":{"rendered":"“Letters Home” on BBC Radio3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
I’m so excited and honored to be included in Nick Luscombe’s series about sound design and music & architecture on BBC Radio 3! You can hear this awesome first episode that also includes inspiring music by other fantastic composers [including a personal favorite of mine, Iannis Xenakis, who’s piece “Rebonds” I performed on my senior recital at the Chicago College of Performing Arts.]\n\n\n\n
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My piece “Letters Home” was composed for Open House Chicago at Chicago’s Union Station with the Chicago Architecture Foundation and Access Contemporary Music. In thinking about what to compose, I wanted to write something reflective and emotionally tied to Union Station’s Women’s Lounge. A room that had been boarded up and used for storage for decades, the Women’s Lounge would have been a getaway from the hustling and bustling travelers in the great hall of Union Station in the earlier half of the 20th century.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
I was so fortunate to find the letters written by a young woman who had recently moved to Chicago in the 1920’s, Trudel Adler Grossman. Her letters were a portal to another time and the exciting adventures of a young woman during her first years in Chicago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Leah N., pictured here at the same age as Trudel at the time of her writing, brought the letters to life at the original performance by reading a letter aloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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