“To start ranking composers working in this tradition does a small disservice to the countless moments of accidental transcendence that are possible not just in the writer’s hand, but in the buildings for which the music was written, in the subtle personal intimacies of a small choir’s members lookin…”— Nico Muhly, nytimes.comTagged: Why Ranking Things is BS, Classical music, O Sing Unto the Lord, Andrew Gant, Books
“Having the music be a meditative space, with micro-narratives and different areas of intensity, feels more intimately communicative than expecting everybody to agree: ‘Ah, that was the sad bit,’ and ‘That was the climax right there.’”— Nico Muhly, nytimes.comTagged: Music, Making Complex and Nuanced Music, Telling Stories Through Music, Classical music, O Sing Unto the Lord