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The controversy of Schoenberg’s serialist works—the overwhelming reaction to them as ugly, nightmarish, simply unmusical—shows how firmly tonality had come to condition habits of listening.—Paul Grimstad, The New Republic, 21 June 2018 DiChiera is not a spiky modernist, or a furrowed serialist, or a redundant minimalist, but writes in a neo-romantic idiom.—Phillip Larrimore, charlotteobserver, 4 Nov. 2017
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