BMOP/Sound Releases New Album By Robert Carl
Carl is a prolific writer penning reviews for Fanfare Magazine and books on 20th and 21st century aesthetics.by BWW News Desk
Known as the nation's foremost label launched by an orchestra and devoted exclusively to new music, Grammy Award-winning BMOP/sound today announced the release of Robert Carl: White Heron, led by conductor Gil Rose and performed by the intrepid Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP). Featuring four of the composer's orchestral works, this portrait album concerns Carl's life-long fascination: time and space-concrete, geographical, and metaphorical.
Currently chair of the composition department at The Hartt School, University of Hartford, Carl is a prolific writer penning reviews for Fanfare Magazine and books on 20th and 21st century aesthetics. He was originally a student of history before he refocused his efforts to music. As a result, his music plays with a sense of time and of the past being present. "My work has always been concerned with time. For me, time is a substance both malleable and 'crystallizable,'" explains Robert Carl. "By shaping form in a manner similar to making a sculpture, I have found that I am able to create an ever-broader sense of space in my pieces, even when they are information-rich."