NEW YORK TIMES: The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2020
NEW YORK TIMES: The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2020
BY SETH COLTER WALLS
“Joseph C. Phillips Jr.: ‘Ferguson: Summer of 2014’
Joseph C. Phillips Jr.’s ‘The Grey Land’ is a stirring, stylistically varied mono-opera that draws on its composer’s reflections on being Black in contemporary America. The longest movement on the premiere recording makes an early textual reference to Barber’s ‘Knoxville: Summer of 1915’ while dramatizing an expectant couple’s unease in the wake of the death of Michael Brown.”