Joshua Kosman has a newly published review for Herschel Garfein’s Mortality Mansions: Songs of Love and Loss After 60 in the San Francisco Chronicle:
“The emotional impact of ‘Mortality Mansions,’ weighty to begin with, grew even more poignant with the death of the 89-year-old poet Donald Hall at the end of June. In this shimmering, expressive song cycle, subtitled “Songs of Love and Loss After 60,” the verses of the former U.S. poet laureate — at once stately and urgent, rueful and earthy — find a beautiful counterpart in the music of composer Herschel Garfein. … Garfein’s settings match the graceful elegance of Hall’s writing, with just the right touch of deference. … This final project stands as a lovely, elegiac seal on Hall’s career.”
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