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Month: October 2017

The New York Times Covers Steven Mackey’s New “Electric Orpheus” Music Video

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Steven Mackey is far from the first composer to try his hand at the Orpheus myth, but he may be the first to treat it in what he calls a wordless opera for electric guitar. The piece, “Orpheus Unsung,” which also has a drum part written with Jason Treuting of So Percussion, came to Princeton …

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