Thursday, December 12, 2013

Work starts on Newtown-inspired 'Child's Requiem'

Steven Sametz, a professor of music and an internationally acclaimed composer, poses for a photograph, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013, at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa. Sametz will be using a $25,000 award he just received to compose a new work that will respond to the Sandy Hook Elementary School killings. To help in the creative process, he is asking children to submit drawings that depict tragedy and loss. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) — Composer Steven Sametz has written dozens of pieces in his long and prolific career, perhaps none so personal as the one he's about to begin: a requiem for the victims of the schoolhouse massacre in Newtown, Conn.








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