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ACL 2018 ~ The Year’s Best Winter Music

Thanks to climate change, many of us are experiencing longer, colder winters.  It’s no surprise that winter music is also on the rise.  This was a particularly good year for the genre, as demonstrated in two early-year round-ups.  Now that the weather is turning cold again, many of us have already experienced frost-furling lows and record-setting snows.

These composers understand the season of…

For Varying Degrees of Winter

The title is taken from Lawrence English’s classic winter album, released in 2007.  The music comes from across the globe: ten artists, ten countries, ten new releases, each attempting to put their stamp on the season before it melts away.  From frigid temperatures to fragile thaw, these works represent the varying degrees of winter. There are two competing views of when winter ends and begins.…