Shining Night: A Portrait of Composer Morten Lauridsen
'Shining Night' is a tribute to a living legend, celebrating the life and music of the artist whom musicologist Nick Strimple has called 'the only American composer in history who can be called a mystic'. National Medal of Arts recipient and most frequently performed American choral composer, he spends his summers on a remote island in the Pacific Northwest. The film, winner of Best Documentary at DC Independent Film Festival and a Los Angeles Movie Award Honorable Mention, is described as 'a heartening rarity' by Wall Street Journal.