Shining Night: A Portrait of Composer Morten Lauridsen (Song Without Borders). This is the documentary by Michael Stillwater that I wrote about with the utmost enthusiasm earlier this year in The Wall Street Journal. I can’t recommend it strongly enough now that it’s available on home video, both as an introduction to one of this country’s best composers and as a model of how to tell an artist’s story on film (TT).
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