The composer Carson Cooman is incredibly prolific. He uses the old-style convention of cataloging his works with opus numbers, and with this oratorio, he's up to Op. 1342. He has written all kinds of music, but the oratorio form fits well with his orientation toward large themes and musical spaces. As We Are Changed aspires to nothing less than to depict this process: "The earth we live on does not stay still but evolves and changes; our lives are changed through our own personal struggles, through meetings with those whose ...
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The composer Carson Cooman is incredibly prolific. He uses the old-style convention of cataloging his works with opus numbers, and with this oratorio, he's up to Op. 1342. He has written all kinds of music, but the oratorio form fits well with his orientation toward large themes and musical spaces. As We Are Changed aspires to nothing less than to depict this process: "The earth we live on does not stay still but evolves and changes; our lives are changed through our own personal struggles, through meetings with those whose difference from us becomes a teacher, with sudden catalytic events, and from the daily, determined creativity of love working and spreading outwards from our humanity." There are two soloists, representing young lost souls. Cooman may make one think of Alan Hovhaness, or even Aaron Copland, if either had lived long enough to take note of the influence of minimalism. The music here is tonal and entirely approachable, and it is up to the listener to decide whether it has the heft to...
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