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Sep 2021
40m 16s

The Sunday Read: ‘The Composer at the Fr...

The New York Times
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You have almost certainly heard Nicholas Britell’s music, even if you don’t know his name. More than any other contemporary composer, he appears to have the whole of music history at his command, shifting easily between vocabularies, often in the same film. His most arresting scores tend to fuse both ends of his musical education. “Succession” is 18th-centu ... Show More
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