What do you do when a car trip to a wedding ends up as a freeway\npile-up? Write your first opera! What Next? - a 40 minute\nchamber opera (with libretto by Paul Griffiths) is an existential\nmusical drama with 6 ambivalent crash escapees telling their tale.\nInventive percussion introduces the crash and lyric lines meld into\naggressive waves as the lives unfold. A weirdly wonderful\nexploration of a human moment using voices as instruments. But its\nthe 2nd part of the cd that really grabbed me - the NRCO literally\nzing out Carters instrumental lines in the Asko Concerto.\nViolin, trumpet, piccolo - Carters having fun and his music\nchallenges our ears and mind. This was written at 90 - we should\nall be so young!
\n_Ruth Gould is from Readings Carlton_

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