In his famous Poetics of Music of 1939, Stravinsky observes, “A real tradition is not the relic of a past that is irretrievably gone; it is a living force that animates and informs the present.” Michael J. Trotta’s Seven Last Words is a work solidly grounded in tradition, yet incorporates a musical language that, in GeorgeContinue reading “Review of Seven Last Words by Michael John Trotta — Choral Scholar”
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Opera Canada & Canadian Music Teacher Reviews: Music by Stephen Chatman
Stephen Chatman’s music has been the subject of review in recent Opera Canada and Canadian Music Teacher magazines. Opera Canada: Choir Practice by Stephen Chatman, CD Recording Choir Practice, a comic opera in one act composed by Chatman with libretto by Tara Wohlberg, was premiered and recorded by the University of British Columbia Opera Ensemble and Symphony. TheContinue reading “Opera Canada & Canadian Music Teacher Reviews: Music by Stephen Chatman”
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