Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) was the most famous tango composer and
bandoneonist in the world. He grew up in Argentina and New York. His
whole life was spent fusing varied musical styles and his synthesis of
traditional danced tango, jazz and classical music became known as Tango
Nuevo. “Milonga del Angel” was written for the New Tango Quintet for
their 1986 album “Tango:Zero Hour.” He described the album personally
as the recording which he could give to his grandchildren and say “this is

what we did with our lives.”

Miranda Scripp is a violinist, violist, pianist, and composer from Brighton,
MA and a sophomore at CSW. She also studies at the New England
Conservatory Preparatory School where her teachers include Kelly Barr
for violin and Jonathan Bass for piano; Peter Zazofsky and Peter Jarvis for
Chamber music; and Gary Fieldman for jazz ensemble. She has attended
the Greenwood summer music camp for the past 6 years. She studies
composition with Howard Frazin. “Swing States” was written after the 2017
election, hence the anxious, nervous, sad passages of motoric/minimal

Music.

Michael H. Weinstein is a composer, theorist, educator, and hornist. He is
the chair of the music department at the Cambridge School of Weston, an
Assistant Professor of Composition at Berklee College of Music, and chair
of music theory at the New England Conservatory of Music Preparatory
Division. He is third horn with the Symphony New Hampshire. His music is
published by Boosey & Hawkes and Micha Music. Recent performances
have taken place in Seattle, New York, Washington, D.C., Boston, Berlin,

Paris, and Moscow.