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Music

There’s something about Mary

29 September 2016

1:00 PM

29 September 2016

1:00 PM

Music likes to tell the same story over and over again. This is part of its tradition but even individual composers can be drawn back to the same models in attempts to reclothe and reinterpret musical forms and structures and settings of classic texts. This is especially the case with the Crucifixion narrative.

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