Heather Christian — TERCE: A PRACTICAL BREVIARY
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"I have no artistic restraint/Everything I see I paint/In the image of myself/I am the vine." Composer and librettist Heather Christian joins The Present Stage to talk about her latest choral stage work, Terce: A Practical Breviary at the 2024 Prototype Festival. Tune in to hear her talk about the nature of bliss, her composing and artistic community-building process, and the female mystics whose words inspired this work.
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