Album Review: THE MUSIC BETWEEN US
Album Review: The Music Between Us Composers Concordance Records COMCON0067 Release: 12/15/2021 (Distributed by NAXOS) The new release (on December 15, 2021) on Composer Concordance Records, distributed by Naxos, of “The Music Between Us” (COMCON0067) is both brilliant and thought provoking. This disc is a song cycle on poetry by Robert C. Ford, better known as the “Wall Street Poet.” Three composers - Charles Coleman, Mark Kostabi and Gene Pritsker - have collaborated to put Ford’s enticing poetry into the limelight. The ten selections on this album are all poems of Ford, and they all challenge us to form our own conclusions about recent events that we have all experienced, such as the pandemic, and the political malaise that is gripping our beloved America. Woven into this excellent fabric are also many common threads of human experience, such as when a young person, attending a junior prom, is too nervous to use his phone to communicate with that special someone. “Tha