Mexican composer Gabriela Ortiz is highlighted at Carnegie Hall

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Gabriela Ortiz is one of Mexico’s best-known classical composers, and she’s becoming better known in the United States, as the Los Angeles Philharmonic has premiered many of her rhythmic, colorful compositions. As Jeff Lunden reports, this week she begins a season-long residency at Carnegie Hall in New York that promises many groundbreaking new pieces.

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