a Stolen Life

A memoir of hope, healing, and survival, sure to resonate with fans of Jaycee Dugard’s A Stolen Life and Elizabeth Smart’s My Story.

In THE STOLEN CHILD, Scott Perkins builds vast and stunning worlds out of a handful of voices. Vibrant, facile, and confident, Perkins' choir writing is state-of-the-art and makes a modern musical statement while retaining a clear attachment to choral music's longstanding tradition. To this end, Perkins' compositions seem to balance the fluid and direct expression of late Renaissance a cappella masterpieces, while also possessing a decidedly contemporary approach to timbre and texture.

In THE STOLEN CHILD, Scott Perkins builds vast and stunning worlds out of a handful of voices. Vibrant, facile, and confident, Perkins' choir writing is state-of-the-art and makes a modern musical statement while retaining a clear attachment to choral music's longstanding tradition. To this end, Perkins' compositions seem to balance the fluid and direct expression of late Renaissance a cappella masterpieces, while also possessing a decidedly contemporary approach to timbre and texture.

At the gates of jazz, Belgium has again struck … One of the main qualities of this wonderful little country is that the Belgian people have been able to draw and mix the best Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. As for vocal jazz and the art of composition, Chrystel Wautier is again the incarnation. With "The Stolen Book", to be released on October 6, Chrystel Wautier delivers a magical, intimate and introspective album. A celestial voice that is already a favorite of André Manoukian, who says: "We get the impression that she sings in our ear, her phrasing is clear, she plays naive painting, restraint.