The “Composer’s Journey” of Annea Lockwood | The New York Times
In advance of Annea Lockwood's Composer Portrait on November 14, 2019 at Miller Theatre, Kerry O'Brien interviewed the composer for "Burning Pianos and Whispering Rivers: A Composer's Journey," noting that Lockwood, who turned 80 this year, "for decades has studied how sound can have visceral and profound effects on attentive, listening bodies."
The article discusses Lockwood's obsession with rivers and how her "sonic attention to the body and the environment has been interwoven with her life as a feminist."
The Portrait, according to O'Brien, is a fitting tribute to the composer, who "influenced by ecofeminism," has been devoted to a "reverence for sound’s potential to move people, particularly in a time of environmental crisis."
“Ms. Lockwood turned 80 in July, and she is being celebrated on Thursday with a Composer Portrait concert at the Miller Theater at Columbia University. Featuring a premiere by the piano-percussion quartet Yarn/Wire, the event is a tribute to Ms. Lockwood’s devotion to collaboration and her reverence for sound’s potential to move people, particularly in a time of environmental crisis.”