Sonia was born in San Antonio, Texas, in a Mexican-American family and grew up in Los Angeles. I could not understand why the history of music was not part of the curriculum in my classical high school, where we did study the history of art, literature, history and philosophy, Latin and ancient Greek. The 2nd movement in particular moved me to tears, while I was studying the classical music composers on my own, through books and (vinyl) records, as a teenager growing up in Italy in the 60s. As it happens that is also my favorite piece. Sonia had fallen in love with music at the age of 6 while listening to Beethoven’s 7th Symphony on the radio. So I finally decided to pay a visit and I picked a classical music concert by the Santa Cecilia Orchestra, because I was intrigued by its founder and conductor, Sonia Marie De León de Vega, who started her symphony orchestra in 1992 with the mission of making classical music accessible and affordable to Latino families in Los Angeles. I have been a frequent visitor and enthusiastic admirer of the Annenberg Space for Photography since it opened in Century City in March 2009, but I had not yet experienced the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts that opened in Beverly Hills in October 2013, in the remodeled Historic 1934 Post Office, with the addition of the state-of-the-art 500-seats Bram Goldsmith Theatre. Read our Cultural Weekly article for more info.
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