Comments on: Browser: Wendell Berry. Free music. Critical shirt. Silent Light. Inside U2′s latest. Iron Man 2. Arcade Fire & Richard Kelly. Love is Concrete. The top ten Top 10s. http://lookingcloser.org/2009/01/browser-wendell-berry-free-music-critical-shirt/ The official website of Jeffrey Overstreet Tue, 26 Oct 2010 05:36:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: Stephen Lamb http://lookingcloser.org/2009/01/browser-wendell-berry-free-music-critical-shirt/#comment-167362 Stephen Lamb Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:46:27 +0000 http://lookingcloser.org/?p=59852#comment-167362 Two things about Wendell Berry: That really is a great poem in the Writer's Almanac (although the link is wrong - it sends you to tomorrow's Writer's Almanac. There should be a 7 at the end of the link, not an 8.) Second, Rob Mathes, one of my favorite arranger/composers, has written a new orchestral piece based on poems by Wendell Berry. The title is "A Standing Ground: Concertino for Orchestra," and the Nashville Symphony will play the world premier next month. I'm really looking forward to hearing it. Two things about Wendell Berry: That really is a great poem in the Writer’s Almanac (although the link is wrong – it sends you to tomorrow’s Writer’s Almanac. There should be a 7 at the end of the link, not an 8.)

Second, Rob Mathes, one of my favorite arranger/composers, has written a new orchestral piece based on poems by Wendell Berry. The title is “A Standing Ground: Concertino for Orchestra,” and the Nashville Symphony will play the world premier next month. I’m really looking forward to hearing it.

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