It's an evening of firsts for the Springfield-Drury Civic Orchestra, as they play their first-ever concert in the Gillioz Theatre tonight as 7:30pm, and offer a concert featuring music exclusively by living composers--mostly (but not exclusively) female composers. One of the composers whose music will be played at tonight's concert is Puerto Rican-born composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist Angelica Negron (pronounced "an-HEL-ih-kah neh-GROHN"). She joined me live in the studio this morning during "Arts News," along with the SDCO's Assistant Conductor Amy Andreassen. Negron's musical tastes and involvement are nothing if not eclectic. In addition to being a founding member of an ambient-electro-acoustic pop group known as Balun, where she sings and plays the accordion and keyboards, Negron has made a name for herself in recent years composing orchestral and chamber music--and she's currently working on an opera--as well as having a keen interest in electronic music. "I've always
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