Roberto Sierra: "Creating music"

Music

3/13/2017

Roberto Sierra, Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities in the Department of Music, talks about his life, composing, teaching, and the creative process in this video.

This originally appeared on the Cornell Research website.

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