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5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now
George Lewis's opera, Afterword: An Opera in Two Acts, draws influence from Anthony Braxton's operas and depicts the formation and development of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.
The opera offers poetic meditation, stretches of conversational English, and a stream-of-collective-consciousness libretto.
Gwendolyn Brown delivers an extraordinary performance as the contralto soloist. [ more ]