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Publications and Recordings
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New CD featuring the music of Tania León!!!
Tania León: Singin' Sepia (Six Compositions, 1992-2002) Bailarín (1998), David Starobin, guitar BRIDGE 9231 |
Jade Simmons performs Tumbao at Harlem Stage's The Gatehouse (Boosey & Hawkes)
Timbrando. Meridien Arts Ensemble. Features Saoko. (Peer Music)
Thomas Buckner - New Music for Baritone & Chamber Ensemble.Features Canto.
Sequitur: To Have and to Hold: Features Ivo, Ivo.
Family Album ( New Music with Guitar Vol. 7) - David Starobin, guitar. Features Bailarin.
Polytopia: Music for Violin and Electronics - Mari Kimura, violin. Features León's Axon for violin and interactive computer. Bridge 9236 (released Sept. 2007)
Sequitur: To Have and to Hold: Features León's Ivo, Ivo. Koch KIC-CD-7593 (released May 2007)
“Salsa Nueva" - Elena Riu, pianist. León's Tumbao. SOMMCD 237 www.somm-recordings.demon.co.uk
"Percussion" - Edith Salmen. León's A La Par. Castigo 02419.
Publications:
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Eight
Visions: A New Anthology for Flute and Piano Theodore Presser Company is honored to publish a collection of commissioned flute solos by eight different composers, a result of a collaboration between flutist Marya Martin and Meet the Composer.
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Cuba: Idea of a Nation Displaced by Andrea O'Reilly Herrera (Editor).State University of New York Press. 2008.Includes In Search of the Palm Tree: An Afternoon with Tania Leon Interview by Iraida Iturralde |
 Joan
Peyser's Revised Edition of To
Boulez and Beyond
recounts a meeting between Boulez and León
during a celebration of Boulez's 80th Birthday by the Chicago Symphony in
which both Boulez's and León's work were performed.
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 The
World of Women in Classical Music
By
Dr. Anne K. Gray. Word World
Publishing. 2007 |
 How
Music Grew in Brooklyn:
A Biography of the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra
by
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 A
History of Music in Western Culture, Second Edition.
Supplement:
CD Set, Volume II - The Classical Era through the Twentieth Century
- a 2/E (Audio CD) includes León's
Ritual
score and recording. By
Mark Evan Bonds. Published
by Prentice Hall. 2006
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 Dvorák
to Duke Ellington, A Conductor Explores America's Music and Its African American
Roots by Maurice Peress. Published by Oxford University Press. 2004 |
 Interview
with Tania León in Composers’
Voices From Ives to Ellington, an oral history of
American music edited by Vivian Perlis and Libby Van Cleve, published by
Yale University Press. The book, and the two CDs that accompany it, is
an exceptional collection of interviews with the most significant
musical figures of our time. Tania León’s interview was conducted by
Jenny Raymond on November 13, 1998. |
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Additional publications: ALZOLA, Concepcion Teresa. Trayectoria de la Mujer Cubana. Ediciones Universal. 2009.
CHOONG CHEONG, Yew. An introduction to the solo piano works of three Latin American composers. Miguel del Águila, Tania león, and Juan María Solare. Doctoral Thesis. West Virginia University. 2009.
Music
Cultures in the United States: An introduction
The
Beat of Latin Women by Sylvia Mendoza
Contemporary
Anthology of Music by Women
The
New Grove Dictionary of American Music.
ed. by H. Wiley Hitchcock and S. Sadie, London: Macmillan Press,1986 and
1996/7 Charles Shere, biographer. La Sabiduria de los Nuestros, Mas de 1,000 citas que le inspiraran. ed. by Yvonne Conde. Vintage Espanol (Random House). 2006
An Introduction to the Music of Tania León and a Conductor's Analysis of Indigena. Monograph by James M. Spinazzola, Louisiana State University. 2006
Music in America, Adelaida Reyes. Oxford University Press. 2005. Discusses Batey. CD included.
Musica latinoamericana para violonchelo, German Marcao. Catalogo de obras. Fundacion Emilio Sojo, 2004 Encyclopedia of Cuba, Vol. 2. Greenwood Press, 2003.
Europaischer Dirigentinnen Reader, Schriftenreihe Frau und Musik Internationaler Arbeitskreis e.V., Band 4. 2003 Women and Music in America since 1900, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2003
The Colors of Culture: Characteristics in Selected Works of Tania Justina León. Dissertation by Donna Jean Reiner, Graduate School of the Union Institute. 1999.
The Popular Guide to Classical Music by Anne Gray, Ph.D. Birch Lane Press:NY, 1993.(chapters on women composers and women conductors)
The
Symphony of the New World, compiled by Clarissa and Marion Gumbo, |
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Publications including music by Tania Leon:
Boosey & Hawkes: Tumbao in “Salsa Nueva: vibrant salsa beats meet contemporary classical piano music". CD included BandQuest: "Alegre" (CD-ROM and score/parts). American Composers Forum. 2003 Two Cuban Songs: Drume Negrita, El Manisero. PeerMusic, 2002 |