Carla Lucero - Part 3

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Episode 116: Carla Lucero - Part 3

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In this week’s episode, we talk to Carla Lucero about being her own librettist versus collaborating with other lyricists, and how composing is narrative-driven for her, no matter the genre or musical forces. If you enjoyed today’s conversation and want to know more about Carla Lucero, check her out here: https://carlalucero.com/. This episode was originally recorded in February 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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Producer, Host, and E4TT co-founder: Nanette McGuinness
Co-producer and Audio Engineer: Stephanie M. Neumann
Podcast Cover Art: Brennan Stokes
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If you're curious to hear a little music from our guest Carla Lucero, who we spoke to in our most recent episode, check out E4TT's annual concert of music by women and non-binary composers "Midnight Serenades" on January 25.

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1. Carla Lucero - Part 3 (00:00:00)

2. In this week's episode, we continue our conversation with Carla Lucero, who we spoke to in February 2024. (00:00:37)

3. You are a double-if not, many more-threat, you know, triple quadruple threat. You also write your libretti. So, when you are your librettist, are you writing the libretto with the music or do you write the libretto first? Does it go in tandem? How does... (00:00:50)

4. Do you like when you're your own librettist or co-librettist? Or do you like it better when someone hands you the text that you then have to maybe mold a bit? (00:04:14)

5. If you were writing an instrumental piece, because you write a lot of opera and a lot of vocal music. But if you're writing instrumental music, where there's no text, what's your process, then? (00:09:03)