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Incisive and percussive in his own two compositions, razor sharp in his take on Anthony Davis’s Middle Passage, utterly lyrical in Jennifer Higdon’s Secret and Glass Gardens, boldly assertive and fully in command of Debussy’s contrasting L’isle joyeuse and La cathédrale engloutie, and capable of a multitude of colors in Pictures at an Exhibition, Stewart Goodyear is simply incapable of repeating himself. He is the complete musician: an imaginative composer who delivers an authentic, original sound unlike any other composer’s, and a technically and interpretatively larger than life artist.