sandiegoopera OP t1_it8l9s0 wrote on October 21, 2022 at 6:47 PM

Reply to comment by ladyO26 in Hi Reddit! I'm a Grammy winning classical composer, composer-in-residence for the Philadelphia Orchestra and I also founded a music academy. In two weeks, the San Diego Opera will premiere my first ever opera, El Ultimo Sueño de Frida y Diego. AMA by sandiegoopera

Ohhhhh yes. My mentee composers laugh that I'm constantly using food and cooking metaphors.

I grew up in Berkeley eating "chifa" or Peruvian-Chinese food. When my mom was growing up in Piura and Chimbote, Perú in the 40s-60s, this was the food that her Cantonese-Chinese father wanted to see cooked in their household. So, the model of delicious cultural-fusion certainly normalized cultural fusion in my own music today.

ladyO26 t1_it8wf1o wrote on October 21, 2022 at 8:02 PM

I made cancha yesterday and sang to the beat of the kernels popping. Ya clearly this is how we roll. Thank you for your art!!