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Music Reviews: Vox Clamantis – ‘Sacrum Convivium’; The Crossing – ‘Zealot Canticles’ by Lansing McLoskey

November 8, 2018 Album Reviews, Avant-garde, Classical, Concert Music, Early Music, Music, Music Genres, Reviews music Comments Off on Music Reviews: Vox Clamantis – ‘Sacrum Convivium’; The Crossing – ‘Zealot Canticles’ by Lansing McLoskey

The monks retreated behind stone walls to chant their devotions. Composer Lansing McLoskey stands in the agora with his choral music on writings by Wole Soyinka.

Music Review: Lewis Spratlan – ‘Hesperus is Phosphorus’

August 3, 2015 Album Reviews, Classical, Music, Music Genres, Reviews music Comments Off on Music Review: Lewis Spratlan – ‘Hesperus is Phosphorus’

The Pulitzer Prize-winning composer has a surpassing ability to set tightly packed texts to expressive music using the combined vocabularies of tradition, modernism, and even the jazz age.

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Music Reviews: Vox Clamantis – ‘Sacrum Convivium’; The Crossing – ‘Zealot Canticles’ by Lansing McLoskey

Music Review: Lewis Spratlan – ‘Hesperus is Phosphorus’