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Life gets lush: Gregory Spears meets The Crossing

AJBlogs Posted: October 30, 2018 11:58 am

Many composers go from maximal to minimal as they pare back and distill their musical language; Spears may be going the opposite direction. His Requiem and the neo-medieval dance opera Wolf-in-Skins are extremely spare; the music of his hit opera Fellow Travelers is understated dramatically but more harmonically rich; The Tower and the Garden, his new 30-minute piece for choir and string quartet, is positively lush.

AJBlogs Published: 10.30.18

Read the story in David Patrick Stearns Published: 10.30.18

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