Arts & Culture | 12.14.2012

Updated 8.29.2023

Hannah Lash: Avant-garde, Post Romantic

Composer Hannah Lash, Ph.D. ’10, discusses how she forms a complex piece of music from a simple idea.

Composer Hannah Lash, Ph.D. ’10, profiled in the January-February 2013 issue, discusses how she develops musical ideas for her compositions and plays with some examples of such ideas at the piano.

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Performing & Recorded Arts

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