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Garfein/ Slattery/ Hall - Mortality Mansions Release:Mortality Mansions Delos Records while the hushed vocal harmoniesIn this unique Delos album, two time Grammy Award winning composer, librettist, and producer Herschel Garfein introduces Mortality Mansions: a stunning new song cycle setting poems by former U. S. poet laureate Donald Hall. Hall's plain spoken, yet profound poetry reveals his candid perspectives on aging, with it's inevitable physical decline, fears, personal losses, and emotional trials. Yet he balances these negative aspects with such persisting