Description
Florida - Postcards from ParadiseScott Lee: Greetings from Florida - Postcards from Paradise is a new genre-blending song cycle from composer Scott Lee featuring jazz vocalist-guitarist Camila Meza. The Meza, Camila: Scott Lee explores the tension between an imagined Florida and the reality experienced bythose who are drawn to the state: retirees, tourists, immigrants, and nature lovers. Eightpoems by Cuban American poet Carolina Hospital serve as lyrics, each re ecting a di erent side of Florida, from tourism and retirement to climate crisis and ecological loss.Written for Camila Meza and chamber ensemble, the music blends contemporaryclassical elements with jazz idioms and pop song structures. Meza's jazz/pop vocals and driving guitar glide over top of noisy, pointillistic grooves performed by a top-notchchamber ensemble of Floridian musicians who deftly execute Lee's complex scores .Together, the poems and music invite listeners to look beyond the postcard andexperience Florida in all its complexity, fragility, and beauty.