by barbarah_admin | Sep 20, 2021
Phantom of the Dreams’ Origin for chamber ensemble sets to music a selection of prose poems from Embirikos’ 1935 masterpiece Blast Furnace, which Nikos Stabakis translated into English in his anthology Surrealism in Greece [University of Texas Press, 2008]. The work...
by barbarah_admin | Sep 16, 2021
“think no more of him now as your brother. He is dead to us now. With these words Edwin Booth, the great American actor, would commence a tortured existence. His infamous brother John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. In the search for the...
by barbarah_admin | Sep 16, 2021
Somber townspeople gather in a square dominated by a platform and pillory on one side and a prison on the other. They sing of Puritan values and their sense of community in the hymn-like A Massachusetts Blessing (Song 1). A strident voice cries out scornfully,...
by barbarah_admin | Sep 16, 2021
The musical begins on the plantation of John Wayles (Jefferson’s father-in-law), where the slaves sing When I Cross That River (Song 1), a rousing spiritual that reflects their lives of hard work and their hopes for the future. Sally is the teenage daughter of...
by barbarah_admin | Sep 16, 2021
A Mate for Kate Teaming the Shrew is the wonderful retelling of Shakespeare’s Taming the Shrew. Join the Party in Padua (Song 1) chorus A Single Glance (Song 2) Lucentio Bianca, Bellissima (Song 3) suitors & chorus Petruchio, the Rock (Song 4) Petruchio...
