This might lead the listener to expect music along the lines of Samuel Barber or Aaron Copland. The compositional style of the 50-year-old Higdon is traditionally tonal rather than discordantly modern. It’s best if you attend Cold Mountain with modest expectations. This is reminiscent of Homer’s Odyssey, but don’t expect the excitement of Ulysses’ adventures with Calypso, Circe, Cyclops and the Lotus-Eaters. What remains interesting is Inman’s 300-mile journey and his trials along the way. Some observers will feel moved by the misery while others will shrug and say “been there.” Thus this narrative has less emotional impact than it did in 19. We’ve all heard harrowing stories of the aftermaths of those conflicts. On the other hand, many sad tales about Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan have intervened. Book and film were hailed as poignant epics about the horror of war. The novel was made as a movie in 2003 with Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, and Renée Zellweger. Higdon does not expand on the rich music vocabulary she used in her instrumental compositions Soliloquy, All Things Majestic and Concerto for Orchestra. But this score is too cautious in letting those elements unfurl. Higdon has the background to depict that milieu she grew up in the Blue Ridge mountains of Tennessee and her orchestral compositions have displayed colorful sonorities. ![]() ![]() ![]() Inman who deserts from the Confederate Army to travel home to his North Carolina mountain. This first opera by the renowned composer Jennifer Higdon is based on a 1997 novel by Charles Frazier about the Civil War soldier W.P.
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