A Death-Obsessed Canadian Composer Who Died Young And Violently Gets A Moment Of Warmth And Performance

"The Canadian composer Claude Vivier should be the great downer of modern music. But so shimmering are Vivier’s drones, so sweetly childlike his invented languages and mystical geographies, so energetic his need to communicate his cravings and insecurities, that the effect is one of warmth rather than dread."

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