>Does anyone here listen to Crumb? His chamber works, especially "Songs,
>Drones, and Refrains of Death", the extended cycle of vocal works based on
>Lorca's poems, seems to be a fantastically rich expression, very evocative.
>A perfect match for the poetry.
Well Reich did a fine job on some Williams.
I agree with Mark about how so called atonal work can be very lyrical, & so
can a lot of 'minimalist' stuff: Pårt for example, certainly Reich & Adams
(who also set Whitman).
Reich is often interested in 'text' of one sort or another...
Doug
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many fancy things such as the dull red
cloth of literature, its mumbled griefs
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