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Saturday, March 5 @ 8PM
Sunday, March 6 @ 3PM
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In advance of next month's performances, Cantori New York Artistic Director Mark Shapiro uncovers the uncommon lyricism and wit behind composer Paul Crabtree's settings of Iris Murdoch.

Crabtree is a musical innovator whose music straddles the salons of Europe and the saloons of the American West. His music is the product of two cultures, combining the seriousness of the European tradition with the restlessness of the American spirit to produce perceptive works that are relevant to the twenty-first century experience.

Born in England in 1960, he graduated from the Music Faculty at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, where he studied with the renowned contrapuntalist Kenneth Leighton. He was also the keyboard player of a catastrophically unsuccessful garage band called Goats’ Opera. Winning a scholarship for post-graduate study in composition he chose the Musikhochschule in Cologne, Germany, where he stayed for two years.

Moving to California on a religious quest in his early 20s and becoming an American citizen, he escaped the constrictions of the English class system and integrated into his rigorously disciplined music a passion for Progressive Rock and pop culture. A strong believer that mythology underpins contemporary experience, he is able to intermingle ideas as diverse as Latin poetry and 1960s girl groups, yet his music maintains a seriousness of purpose that intensifies both ‘high’ and ‘low’ cultural references.

https://paulcrabtree.net/

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This interview is the latest edition of our salon series Cantori/QUASI. Conceived during the pandemic, Cantori/QUASI brings the best of music and scholarship directly to your home. Each season, Artistic Director Mark Shapiro curates listening sessions with distinguished guests on themes of choral music past & present.

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This program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the NY State Legislature.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.