The National Association of Teachers of Singing‘s November/December issue of The Journal of Singing features a rave new review for Herschel Garfein’s Mortality Mansions: Songs of Love and Loss after 60 recording:
“Herschel Garfein’s song cycle Mortality Mansions … serves as a stirring final testament to Donald Hall’s work and to the almost limitless possibilities that can spring from the imaginative collaboration between poet and composer. …
Mortality Mansions is one of the most deeply moving and impressive vocal works of the 21st century…
By the time we reach the eleventh and final song, ‘Gold,’ we have been taken on a wrenching yet illuminating journey that cannot easily be forgotten.…
This is a recording that belongs on the shelf of anybody who cares about great poetry, great music, and the miracle that occurs when they are combined this masterfully.”
—Gregory Berg, The Journal of Singing
See the full review in the November/December issue in print and online at www.nats.org
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