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Q & A: Houston Grand Opera’s Artistic and Music Director Patrick Summers on His New Book

Readers looking for a thought-provoking, feel-good book about the powers of arts education and music’s spiritual force: look no further than “The Spirit of This Place: How Music Illuminates the Human Spirit (The University of Chicago Press).”

Written by Houston Grand Opera Artistic and Music Director Patrick Summers, a self-professed lover of writing, the book is a collection of 36 essays inspired by the city where he lives and works, and it resulted from a university lecture.