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Article: Culture: Echoes of the sea in pure song.(Features)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
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- March 26, 2003
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Byline: Christopher Morley
Tonight's concert from the virtuoso a cappella choral group Schola Heidelberg features a work by the current composer-in-residence at the Music Department of Birmingham University.
Caspar Johannes Walter's L'Infinito, to a poem by the 19th-century Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi, is the composer's first unaccompanied vocal piece, written in 1997 and here receiving its UK premiere in its UK debut at the Barber Institute.
'For my pieces, it's very short, only 3 1 /2 minutes, but ...