Cheltenham Music Festival 2017: Tenebrae

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Dan JC

Me again! You make a lot of excellent points here. As someone who’s also spent a good deal of time both singing in and accompanying amateur choirs, I’m also frustrated by the conservative choice of repertoire and the unadventurousness of so much ‘contemporary’ choral music. Heck, I’ve met people whose idea of avant-garde music is Eric Whitacre!

And thanks also for the introduction to Joby Talbot, yet another composer who’s music I was unaware of. I swear, every time I come on this blog I discover a new composer…

[…] Camille: a short lovesong for solo piano (which i found charming), and his hour-long choral work Path of Miracles (which pretty much blew me […]

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