It turns out that "Encounter," the Czeslaw Milosz poem currently on my family blackboard and the subject of an earlier post, is No. 3 in a set of eleven in John Harbison's "Milosz Songs," soon to have their world premiere. Dawn Upshaw sings (not in Polish, alasz). Robert Spano conducts. Steven Stucky explains. What could be bad ? Never mind, don't answer that.
–Justin Davidson
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