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American Stories

Classical Album review: Clarinetist Anthony McGill’s “American Stories”

December 5, 2022

Posted in Classical Music, Music, Review

These stories occupy their own, distinctive spaces but they share something intangible. A kind of humanity, maybe? Perhaps.

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