The theme of this Chase Spruill album of music for solo violin by Philip Glass is the commonality of isolation and grief caused by the uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic and the protests that unfolded in the summer of 2020. Spruill's affinity for Glass' music began when he was eight years old. Following an accident that led to surgeries and having to use a wheelchair for a time, he came to love the horror movie Candyman and its Glass-composed score. He later developed relationships with Glass, Richard Guerin (the head ...
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The theme of this Chase Spruill album of music for solo violin by Philip Glass is the commonality of isolation and grief caused by the uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic and the protests that unfolded in the summer of 2020. Spruill's affinity for Glass' music began when he was eight years old. Following an accident that led to surgeries and having to use a wheelchair for a time, he came to love the horror movie Candyman and its Glass-composed score. He later developed relationships with Glass, Richard Guerin (the head of Glass's Orange Mountain Music label), and the director of the Philip Glass Ensemble, Michael Riesman. Spruill reached out to Riesman in 2012 about arranging a violin and piano suite from the Candyman film score, and the pair recorded the suite in 2016. Along with the overall theme, the album title comes from the opening work, Sarabande in Common Time, a haunting piece thoroughly imbued with a sense of despair. This is followed by an updated version of the "Primacy of Number," from...
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