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The next two releases on Crier Records will be Law of Mosaics (November 2014), premiere recordings of music by Ted Hearne and Andrew Norman; and History of the Night (early 2015), a live album drawn from concerts at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, featuring “night music” by Mozart, Bartók, Schoenberg and Dvo?ák.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"cr1401-dreams-and-prayers","title":"Dreams and Prayers","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eDreams and Prayers, the album, explores music's role in religious mysticism as the ultimate passageway between the physical and the spiritual. 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