Word: beeson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...daughter Lizzie was acquitted of the crime, legend-in the form of books, plays and even a ballet-has found her guilty. Last week the New York City Opera presented Lizzie again as the strong-willed woman of the legend in a striking new opera by U.S. Composer Jack Beeson...
...score is a modern patchwork, ranging from bouncy rural rhythms to streaks of dissonance, used most effectively in underlining Lizzie's mounting anxiety. But for the most part, it is unobtrusive by design. Says Beeson: "The whole focus is on the stage...
...Beeson's association with opera began in his boyhood back home in Muncie, Ind., when he tuned in Metropolitan Opera broadcasts on two radios -for the stereophonic effect-then accompanied the Met singers on his piano. Since then, while teaching composition at Columbia University, he has written four operas, several orchestral and chamber works...
...Beeson wryly and accurately describes himself as "a little-performed composer." He is apt to continue to be if he insists on composing operas which involve a huge commitment of time and money by anyone daring enough to produce them. Beeson does insist. "It is a crazy passion and there is not much sense to it," he explains, "but I like to write opera...
...STERLING BEESON...