You have giant mistake.
The quantity does not count, but the quality dominates.
For example : Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY) presents The Music of Karl Jenkins in Review Karl Jenkins | New York Concert Review, Inc.
"The concert opened with the cantata, The Bards of Wales. What could be more natural for a Welsh composer than to use as a text than a poem entitled “The Bards of Wales”? Interestingly enough, this poem was not written by a Welshman, but by the Hungarian poet Janós Arany (1817-1882). Asked to write a poem of praise for the occasion of a visit to Budapest by Emperor Franz Joseph (only eight years after the Hapsburg empire crushed Hungary’s War of Independence), Arany chose to compose a ballad based on the ancient Welsh legend of how King Edward I of England had 500 Welsh bards executed for failing to sing his praises at a banquet in 1277. The message was unmistakable: the truth must be told, at whatever sacrifice. The Bards of Wales is a nine-movement work scored for orchestra, chorus, and tenor, baritone, bass-baritone, and mezzo-soprano soloists that can be sung in Hungarian, Welsh, or English. On this occasion, the English version, as translated by Peter Zollman (1931-2013), was used. Tenor Rhys Meirion was cast as King Edward I. Baritone Darik Knutsen had a double role as a minstrel and bard, while bass-baritone Samuel Smith and mezzo-soprano Charlotte Daw Paulsen also took roles as bards.
What strikes the experienced Jenkins listener as singular about The Bards of Wales is the complete absence of any of the multi-ethnic influences that Karl Jenkins is so well known for using in his works (answering any naysayers who carp about so-called multicultural “gimmicks” for effect). The sound is uniquely his own, and I would easily know this is a Jenkins work without being told. That is not to say that there is anything formulaic in it, as only fragments resembled earlier compositions (the movement “His Men went forth” resembling a hybrid of material from L’homme Armé or Charge! movements of The Armed Man)."
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