Q & A: Composer Carlos Simon on the Creation of the ‘Good News Mass’ Ahead of its Ravinia Premiere

Composer Carlos Simon has built a career at the intersection of the Black church and the concert hall, channeling a Pentecostal upbringing into music written for orchestras, opera companies and choruses. That path has taken the Atlanta native from Composer in Residence at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to the inaugural Composer Chair of the Boston {…} The post Q & A: Composer Carlos Simon on the Creation of the ‘Good News Mass’ Ahead of its Ravinia Premiere appeared first on OperaWire .