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...years ago and Yo-Yo Ma ’76 recently premiered his cello concerto with the Chicago Symphony. His intense but accessible modernism is a welcome change from the watered-down simplicity of many of today’s new orchestral works. Symphonia, subtitled Sum fluxae pretium spei (“I am the prize of flowing hope” from 17th-century metaphysical poet Richard Crashaw’s “Bulla”), actually existed as three separate pieces before Carter combined them into one work...
Musica, O spei stella...
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