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The Choral Dirge by Chloe Veltman

As the holiday season kicks into full swing and choral music concerts abound, I am invariably reminded of why it is that the genre has so little street cred.Here are the problems as I perceive them.1. Composers like to write tediously slow, earnest music. Most of the contemporary repertoire sounds like a dirge, with the same superficially complex harmonies borrowed from the Lauridsen and Whitacre cannons. There's lit…

SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 01:46PM on December 6, 2011

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