{"id":93429,"date":"2023-10-02T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/?p=93429"},"modified":"2026-01-14T12:12:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T20:12:22","slug":"pitman-review-simons-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/pitman-review-simons-together\/","title":{"rendered":"John Pitman Review: Carlos Simon&#8217;s &#8216;Together&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Composer <strong>Carlos Simon<\/strong> has received numerous awards and nominations for works such as 2021&#8217;s <em>Requiem for the Enslaved<\/em>. He recently spoke to All Classical Radio host John Pitman about his latest album <em>Together<\/em>, a 10-track project that came about from the desire to simply make music with friends and colleagues, after the long period of separation during the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among these friends is soprano J&#8217;Nai Bridges, who sings Simon&#8217;s arrangement of the hymn <em>Near the Cross<\/em>, as well as the opening track, <em>Prayer<\/em>. Carlos tells John &#8220;because\u2026always begin with a prayer.&#8221;), Violinist Randall Goosby joins the composer in Simon&#8217;s achingly beautiful rendition of <em>Amazing Grace<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hear John&#8217;s full interview with Carlos Simon, woven with music excerpts from <em>Together<\/em>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"John Pitman Review: Carlos Simon&#039;s &#039;Together&#039; by All Classical Radio\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1630922112&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Together <\/em>by Carlos Simon is available now on Decca Classics. Purchase the album and learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carlossimonmusic.com\/album\/together\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.carlossimonmusic.com\/album\/together\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">carlossimonmusic.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Composer Carlos Simon has received numerous awards and nominations for works such as 2021&#8217;s Requiem for the Enslaved. He recently spoke to All Classical Radio host John Pitman about his latest album Together, a 10-track project that came about from the desire to simply make music with friends and colleagues, after the long period of &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":93430,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4040],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pitman-reviews"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-21 04:16:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93431,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93429\/revisions\/93431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}