Alexis Cuadrado “La Aurora“ Live on Soundcheck

HEAR THE FULL INTERVIEW AND PERFORMANCE: Eighty years before terms like “1 percenter“ and “the Occupy movement“ entered our conversations, the great Spanish playwright and poet Federico Garcia Lorca wrote about the inequalities he saw while living in 1930s America. Now, Spanish bassist and composer Alexis Cuadrado has set those poems to music. He unveils his jazz song cycle, “A Lorca Soundscape,“ live in our studio. Subscribe for more WNYC videos here: Watch more