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Joy Gilliam

In the tradition of composing songs to tell stories

unaware it holds a special place in the heart of Santa Claus himself

Part stride and part swing

Hacke on their relationship: "David and I have been admirers of each others work for some time

L'equivoco Stravagante Release:L'equivoco Stravagante Joy GilliamRossini wrote L'equivoco stravagante ('The Curious Misunderstanding'), his first full length opera, when he was only 19 years old. As it's title suggests, the plot of this dramma giocoso offers a panoply of absurdist stagecraft with one character being led to believe that the work's heroine is in fact a castrato trying to avoid military service. Full of his trademark buffo humor, melodious and musically buoyant, the opera ran foul of the censors and

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