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Article: This jazz innovator's scores call for flugelhorn and oboe: 'Being a woman artist, I have a certain freedom. I'm not compared to anybody.'.(Features)(Arts & Leisure)(Music)(Artist At Work)(Maria Schneider)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- September 8, 2000
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"I dance all the time. When I'm sitting down, I get trapped in an idea and lose perspective - but when I dance, my body tells me how my compositions should develop," says jazz composer Maria Schneider in a recent phone conversation from Manhattan about her new recording.
If the image of a perpetually dancing composer flies in the face of stereotypes, Schneider's art shatters many more conventional images.
With the recent release of "Allegresse," her third album on the Enja label, Schneider has earned a place of honor among the jazz composers of our time. She has been nominated twice for a Grammy, she composed a major piece ("El Viento") for Carnegie ...