Maria Schneider composed “Bulería, Soleá y Rumba” in the wake of a cancer diagnosis. Inspired by American artists such as Robert Henri and George Bellows, Schneider discusses “art for life’s sake” that tells a story of people—like the evocative figures in Bellows’s The Lone Tenement.

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Image credit: George Bellows, "The Lone Tenement," (detail) 1909, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.83

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