Part Teacher, Part Den Mother, a Composer Fosters Diversity (New York Times)

By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim

Gabriela Lena Frank’s Peruvian heritage suffuses her music, and her academy focuses on training new voices.

Half a dozen. That’s how many times the composer Gabriela Lena Frank reckons she has visited the grocery store since the coronavirus hit in late winter. She and her husband have otherwise been able to fend for themselves: Their 15-acre farm in Mendocino County, Calif. — laid out in Inca-style terraces on a redwood-rich mountain slope — is home to chickens, bees, vegetable patches and dozens of fruit trees.

As weeks stretched into months this year, her kitchen became a laboratory for culinary experiments: Wild dandelions proved a hit, as did acorn tortillas. “That’s the kind of thing that sustains me,” she said in a recent phone interview.

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