{"product_id":"lister-blandy-collage-new-music-faith-based-initiatives","title":"Charles Blandy: Faith Based Initiatives - COMPACT DISCS","description":"\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eFaith Based Initiatives\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eArtist: \u003c\/b\u003eCharles Blandy\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eLabel: \u003c\/b\u003eMetier\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eProduct Type: \u003c\/b\u003eCOMPACT DISCS\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eUPC: \u003c\/b\u003e809730861826\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eGenre: \u003c\/b\u003eClassical\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eRelease Date: \u003c\/b\u003e2022-09-09\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eNumber of Discs: \u003c\/b\u003e1\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \n                                         \u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \n                                         \n                                         Though the works on this album are varied in genre, from vocal to string quartet, they share a common theme, explicit in the song cycle Friendly Fire and implicit in the other works; that theme embodies grief, personal or for the plight of people blighted by war; hope in the backing of action by faith. Rodney Lister is a composer based in New England. His biography is impressive and features commissions from the US Library of Congress and many leading ensembles, and a wealth of compositions, articles and other writings. He is currently teaching at Boston University and the New England Conservatory as well as tutoring duties at Harvard; he also works with the Greenwood Music Camp in Massachusetts. This album offers a view of a composer whose output is both lyrical and abstract, with a poetic command of foreground and background, consonance and dissonance. Often, the core of the work is a borrowed or found fragment, in particular American hymn tunes. The melodies become locations of stability but subject to subtle and sometimes unsettling modifications. NOTE: One of the poems included in Friendly Fire ('For the Union Dead' by Robert Lowell) contains a racial epithet considered unacceptable in day to day speech and writing today. It is retained because of it's historical and social context in a poem which is strongly anti-racist and is a cry against the injustice meted out to African-American troops fighting for the Union in the American Civil War. The poem itself is regarded as a classic of modern literature, appreciated by commentators of all ethnicities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTracks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Charles Blandy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39721999892551,"sku":"42869566","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2976\/0132\/files\/4119027-2887522.jpg?v=1711771876","url":"https:\/\/tower.com\/products\/lister-blandy-collage-new-music-faith-based-initiatives","provider":"Tower Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}