In the 60-minute performance special MESTIZA MUSIC, Grammy-winning Peruvian-American composer Gabriela Lena Frank brings her unique music-making process to her alma mater, the University of Michigan. After years of planning, musicians with roots in Finland, Korea, China, and the United States join three talented Ecuadorian pan players in Ann Arbor, Michigan for a weeklong workshop that culminates with a concert showcasing a cross-cultural fusion of music that is both revelatory and forward-thinking. Viewers have a front-row seat as the mestiza (mixed) music comes to life, watching the musicians create the sounds, build the friendships, and make the changes needed to bridge the two very different worlds of classical and traditional Andean music. In the process, Gabriela helps show that western classical music is a genre still being written today.
