Tyshawn Sorey: The Busiest Composer of the Bleakest Year
Tyshawn Sorey: The Busiest Composer of the Bleakest Year An artist straddling jazz and classical styles had perhaps the most exciting fall in new music. Tyshawn Sorey, a composer and multi-instrumentalist, conducting his song sequence “Cycles of My Being” in a filmed presentation by Opera Philadelphia.Credit...Dominic M. Mercier Jan. 1, 2021 “Everything Changes, Nothing Changes”: Tyshawn Sorey wrote the string quartet that bears that title in 2018. But the sentiment is so tailor-made for the past year that when the JACK Quartet announced it would stream a performance of the work in De...