Jennifer Higdon On Cold Mountain

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Published November 16, 2012 at 11:39 AM EST

Jennifer Higdon and her cat, Beau, pictured in 2005. — Composer Jennifer Higdon

The Philadelphia-based, world-renowned composer Jennifer Higdon speaks with WRTI's Jim Cotter. Higdon is currently writing her first opera based on the novel Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier. It was also the basis for a 2003 movie.

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