Mar 2, 2020
Exploring the Margins: Tift Merritt’s first orchestra composition is inspired by the history of Dix Hospital
By David Menconi Way back in 1908, a man named Lewis Hyder was involuntarily committed to Dorothea Dix Hospital in Raleigh. He was 30 years old, recently returned from a four-year stint in the military, and he had threatened to burn down the barn on his father’s farm. So off to Dix he went, but…