A CHORAL CONDUCTOR’S APPROACH TO CHRISTOPHER THEOFANIDIS’S <em>THE HERE AND NOW</em>

American composer Christopher Theofanidis’s choral-orchestral work The Here and Now (2005) is a setting of Jalal ad-Din Rumi’s thirteenth-century poetry as translated by Coleman Barks. Theofanidis employs a cappella sonic contrasts, silence, rhythmic text setting, and a libretto based on fragments o...

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Main Author: MacNay, Regan Arlene
Format: Others
Published: UKnowledge 2018
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Online Access:https://uknowledge.uky.edu/music_etds/124
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1134&amp;context=music_etds