Zanaida Robles - Part 2

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Episode 150: Zanaida Robles - Part 2
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In this week’s episode, we talk to Zanaida Robles about her compositional process, where she finds texts to set, and the difference in using existing text versus setting something written specifically for the composer. If you enjoyed today’s conversation and want to know more about Zanaida Robles, check her out here: https://zanaidarobles.com/. This episode was originally recorded in January 2024.

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Intro music: “Trifolium” by Gabriela Ortiz, performed by E4TT (Ilana Blumberg, violin; Abigail Monroe, cello; Margaret Halbig, piano), as part of “Below the Surface: Music by Women Composers,” January 29, 2022
Outro music: “Lake Turkana” by Marcus Norris, performed by E4TT (Margaret Halbig, piano), as part of “Alchemy,” October 15, 2021
Transcription courtesy of Otter.ai.
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1. Zanaida Robles - Part 2 (00:00:00)

2. In this week's episode, we continue our conversation with Zanaida Robles, who we spoke to in January 2024. (00:00:38)

3. Choral music features heavily in your compositional oeuvre, what's your process? How do you find or write your texts? Because you write some of your texts, right? (00:00:46)

4. So for your texts that you don't write, where do you find those? Are they usually a commission, somebody hands you a text, or... (00:04:05)

5. So you're finding that most of them, when you reach out to them, they're happy to have you write to their poetry, their text? (00:06:27)