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“John was looking for a texture for
e Gospel According to the Other Mary
,” explains Sellars, “and he was going through medieval
music and Renaissance music kind of like Igor Stravinsky, looking for music where there’s a very detailed and elaborate harmonic
language. John came across Lasso and became so excited. He told both Grant and me to look at Orlando de Lasso.”
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