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From: The American Organist
Date: 20060601
Author:Anonymous
WILLIAM BOLCOM: Songs of Innocence and of Experience (William Blake). Multiple soloists; University of Michigan School of Music Symphony Orchestra; ensembles of the University of Michigan School of Music and the University Musical Society, Ann Arbor, Mich.; Leonard Slatkin, conductor. Naxos 8.559216-18 (3 discs). Bolcom's magnum opus was 25 years in the making. His relationship to Blake's monumental collection of poems, issued in 1794, began during his late teen years. The premiere of Bolcom's work was given in 1984. Blake's poems present a full panoply of literary styles from Drydenesque ...
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