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"....the music and the words...were as striking as they were sublime."
     – Austin Chronicle on 
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​Remembering Landscape
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Upcoming Release: AERO

8/5/2020

 
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Marvin J. Carlton's Romance for Flute and Piano will be released August 28, 2020 on AERO from Navona Records. 
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Review: Remembering Landscape

4/17/2017

 
One Ounce Opera’s Fresh Squeezed Ounce of Opera II
Austin's One Ounce Opera juices the night away
by Wayne Alan Brenner, Austin Chronicle

Excerpt:
And I've singled it out, because it singled me out. Because that "Remembering Landscape," more thematic than narrative, transcended the rest of the enjoyable night it was part of. Because the music and the words used to evoke oblique structures of memory and distinct landscapes were as striking as they were sublime. Because the complex vocals and simple movements of the three performers – now voicing solo, now as a pair, now as a trio – were staged and rendered on the frugal set in such a way that the whole thing did a little welcome breaking-and-entering into the house of what a person might call their soul.

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