Composer Cliff Masterson knows how to make sorrow sublime. "When I wrote it, the feeling of the music was sad, but yet there was this beautiful melody that sat on top," Masterson says. Written for a ...

Alexandra Grant and Keanu Reeves, spread from “Shadows” (2016) (image courtesy Steidl) Here, selections from Shadows. Read on a bench with a sandwich. Alexandra Grant and Keanu Reeves, spread from ...

Composer Cliff Masterson knows how to make sorrow sublime. Take his regal, mournful adagio Beautiful Sadness, for example: "When I wrote it, the feeling of the music was sad, but yet there was this ...