![]() ![]() ![]() One is a Jewish boy who’s lost his mother, the other is his family’s single-mom black housekeeper, who worries about her children’s future in early-’60s America. In 2003’s “Caroline, or Change,” two more lonely souls seek wholeness. Her first musical, 1997’s “Violet,” is about a disfigured young woman from rural North Carolina who yearns to be healed. And then there is the soul and the heart.” “Music, for me, is like the architecture of a beautiful thing you’re envisioning, and the way to get there is intervallic, it’s mathematic. “It’s where the mystery and the science meet,” she says by phone from her apartment on New York’s Upper West Side. That duality imbues the way that Tesori talks about music. Her father was a doctor, her mother a nurse, but “both parents really believed that every kid had to have some kind of artistic expression,” she says. She grew up in a home where science met the arts. SIGN UP for the free Essential Arts & Culture newsletter »įamily life is a repeated reference point as Tesori, 55 and mother of a 19-year-old daughter, reflects on the career that has made her one of the most-nominated composers in Tony Award history. ![]()
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