Sunday, March 3, 2013

Washington Post: 'Jeffrey Mumford rightly vaunted by National Gallery of Art as composer-in-residence'

Jeffrey Mumford
(Ronald Jantz)

Violist Eliesha Nelson sends this link:

By Stephen BrookesFebruary 04, 2013
Jeffrey Mumford is the composer-in-residence at the National Gallery of Art this year, and it’s a fitting distinction, given that Mumford is a native of the District and has long been a central figure in the small-but-feisty contemporary music scene here. The gallery is mounting three concerts this month to celebrate Mumford’s music, and the first — performed in the East Building on Sunday night by the museum’s New Music Ensemble — offered an illuminating glimpse into the composer’s complex and richly imaginative music, in which an almost romantic sensibility seems to radiate through a thoroughly contemporary surface.

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