‘Basura’: Gloria and Emily Estefan on writing music that serves the story
In 2019, producer Michael Shulman invited Gloria Estefan to score a musical he was developing based on ‘Landfill Harmonic,’ a documentary about a children’s orchestra in Paraguay that builds its instruments from recycled trash. Estefan invited her daughter Emily to write alongside her. On this episode of WABE Arts, Sherri Daye Scott talks with Gloria and Emily Estefan — during rehearsals at the Alliance Theatre ahead of the musical’s May 30 premiere — about what it takes to write original music for the stage: the panic, the process, the songs that…
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