Sierra: Cicada Shell; Birds and Insects Book 1; Surrounded Ground, etc – review

Narucki/Neidich/Gosling/Daedalus Quartet/International Contemporary Ensemble/Ogren (Bridge)Now in her early 40s, the US-born Arlene Sierra currently teaches composition at Cardiff University, while her own teachers have ranged from Michael Daugherty and Jacob Druckman to Magnus Lindberg and Judith Weir. But her work has its own character, in which historical and contemporary influences are fused into a highly flexible and distinctive style as well as incorporating a wide range of extra-musical ...

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