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The Waking Sun, overview

by Kile Smith | May 19, 2011 | Choral music, New Compositions, new music, Spirituality

The Waking Sun is my attempt to understand Stoicism. When Donald Nally first asked me to participate in The Crossing’s Seneca project, my first thought was No. I have often wondered why a non-Christian, say, would bother composing a piece with Christian themes,...

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