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  Numinous The Music of Joseph C. Phillips Jr.

20: 2019
Numinous at 25

20. 2019
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After the premiere of The Grey Land in 2018, the next year, 2019, was spent trying to figure things out to come up with a way to record my monoopera. With The Grey Land, my largest and most ambitious composition to date (and about 4x as expensive as the others), I wasn’t sure what I was going to do to get the album recorded. While I had hoped to record in 2019, I just wasn’t able to make it happen. But by that summer I had a plan and begun working on the details of the recording—including during a retreat at a friend’s upstate home and a family Christmas vacation to one of our favorite places, Rio de Janeiro. 

The second music event this year was composing Four Freedoms. I was commissioned by the Maryland Opera Studio in the summer and spent that summer and into the fall working on the composition (including over Thanksgiving when I was in Hong Kong at the wedding of a friend and former student). While at the beginning of December I was ahead of my personal deadline, it really took a 4-day, 18-hour December composing marathon, in Colorado, to get the opera finished and to the Maryland Opera Studio in time for them to begin rehearsals in January 2020. 

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Thanks and credit to all the original photos on this website to: David Andrako, Concrete Temple Theatre, Marcy Begian, Mark Elzey, Ed Lefkowicz, Donald Martinez, Kimberly McCollum, Geoff Ogle, Joseph C. Phillips Jr., Daniel Wolf-courtesy of Roulette, Andrew Robertson, Viscena Photography, Jennifer Kang, Carolyn Wolf, Mark Elzey, Karen Wise, Numinosito. The Numinous Changing Same album design artwork by DM Stith. The Numinous The Grey Land album design and artwork by Brock Lefferts. Contact for photo credit and information on specific images.