05/04/2025
Check out this interview with one of our favorite composers, Jennifer Higdon! We perform Higdon’s works almost every season. Here she talks about her teacher, Ned Rorem, and his approach to composing for voice. Tune in next Friday when we present Rorem’s Santa Fe Songs at the Saint Louis Art Museum. And if you have a minute, treat yourself and listen to Higdon’s “blue cathedral” embedded in this article!!
As one of the most-performed living composers, the Pulitzer winner insists that her music communicate to everyone — from farmers to children to the classical music intelligentsia.