The Choral Contrarians
A couple of friendly conductors bantering about complex issues affecting the choral world.
The Choral Contrarians
Canon goes Boom!
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Eric Barnum and Richard Robbins
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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Richard and Eric make their return after a short winter hiatus. They begin 2020 discussing the choral "canon" and some composers therein. What is it? What do we do with it or how do we engage with it? Does it matter whether we engage with it or not nowadays? Should we care that some "great" composers may find themselves generally forgotten?
https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/latest/most-underrated-composers/
https://culture.pl/en/article/many-composers-have-been-erased-from-history-an-interview-with-marcin-swiatkiewicz