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Variations on 'Whippoorwill'

Whippoorwill (2010s Classical Crossover)

By: Paul S Cilwa Posted: 8/19/2026 Page Views: 13
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The most over-the-top thing on the album, and that is meant as a compliment.
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The boy band version scandalized somebody, who resolved to do the thing properly. Properly, here, means Emerson, Lake and Palmer—banks of keyboards, orchestral flourishes, and bombast piled on until the whippoorwill comes out sounding like a fanfare. Three hundred years after a court composer wrote the bird down at his window, somebody has built a cathedral around it.

Whippoorwill (2010s Classical Crossover)

By Paul S Cilwa