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...The boy hero, Arbor (Conner Chapman), a wiry, petty-thieving urchin, might be named after Barnard’s last movie: The Arbor, a docudrama about northern playwright Andrea Dunbar, tense with ellipsis and surreal...
...Given its scope and ambition, one would expect Chapman’s The Last of the Imperious Rich to be the size of the Manhattan phone book. But instead, it is a surprisingly curt 274 pages....
...Works by, among others, Virgil Thomson, Aaron Copland, Roy Harris and Lou Harrison bore him out, and two composers-in-residence, Stephen Scott and Curt Cacioppo, supplied newer music in similar vein....
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