On the July 14 afternoon of Joan Tower's world premiere, the composer let her dry-as-the-Eastern-Oregon-desert humor roll. "Well I'm still alive," she said, greeting the audience in her unpretentious way at University of Portland's acoustically attuned Lincoln Performance Hall...
Tower and her energetic music have exerted a substantial influence on many American musicians, both in composing and performing fields. Everyone I've interviewed whom she has worked or played with admires her...
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