SEATTLE — “Slipping into sepia” is Steven Mackey’s phrase for a composer’s process of signaling an act of memory. “Ostensibly odd musical grammar in the present tense can be understood as an artifact of the past tense when it accompanies a remembered event, like a film’s sepia hue telling us that the scene is meant to be a recollection,” he writes in his commentary on Mnemosyne’s Pool (2014), a symphonic saga that is paired with his violin concerto Beautiful Passing (2008)on the most recent recording of Mackey’s music….
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MEMETERIA by Thomas May 