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    Musical Epiphanies

    Aug 02, 2019 2 minutes
    LAFAYETTE GILCHRIST
    [as told to Jeff Tamarkin]

    usical epiphanies are moments in my own listening experience that have inspired me to create. These recordings are directly or indirectly responsible for the path I’ve chosen in music. They could be divided up two ways: The first are things I heard that encouraged my own sense of compositional adventure. The second just made me want to play

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