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An album combining works by Schubert, Piazolla and Lintinen, cellist Trey Lee is joined by the English Chamber Orchestra to perform compositions embracing the effects and impacts of climate change on both the environment and society. The album has two world premiere recordings of new arrangements for both cello and piano, and cello and orchestra by Trey Lee. “With the cello as a platform, I seek a sober yet trenchant means to tell the story of our seasons, and concurrently, create a musical narrative to account for how this crisis unfolds. This album is a journey across our world from the past to the present, and finally, to an increasingly plausible future through the prism of works by three composers from three eras.”

A publishing surge of the last twenty years has filled our shelves with ‘companions’, volumes designed to equip their readers with up-to-date and convenient surveys of the current state of knowledge about literary periods and major authors. Like many fellow teachers and researchers, I have previously ridden this wave. Here, now, is a volume that might look like one more ‘companion’ or its close kin. Its aspirations are, however, considerably—perhaps even completely—different. A companion or a handbook promises, at least by implication, to provide authoritative information, an accounting of what is ‘known’ and agreed upon by seasoned scholars in the field. By contrast, this volume seeks to enter the zone of the not-yet known…