Episode notes
Composer Nico Muhly discusses picking and setting texts for choral music for sacred and concert settings ahead of the US premiere of his cantata "The Shadow of the Sun" by Christ Church Cathedral Choir at Carnegie Hall. The conversation winds through Reich, Glass, Taverner, his recent albums with the Tallis Scholars and the Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford, the wisdom of Eddie Murphy's RAW, Ghostbusters 2, Richard III, the Big Conversation around the role of text in music, decorating vs. architecture, traveling heavy, and what he likes about music.
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