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...Santa Fe Opera last week, two important premieres demonstrated just how potent eclecticism can be. John Eaton's The Tempest, with a libretto after Shakespeare by Music Critic Andrew Porter of The New Yorker, is a rich blend of Renaissance music, jazz and electronics that is surrounded by an uncompromisingly modernist microtonal framework. Another happily eclectic work, Hans Werner Henze's The English Cat, takes an anthropomorphic tale by English Playwright Edward Bond, based on Balzac, and sets it to music that freely ranges from kitschy consonance to acerbic dissonance. Both operas have the kind of unquestioned stylistic integrity that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: When the Style Is No Style | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...Harvard Early Music Society presents Montverdi’s famous opera, L’Orfeo, featuring Libretto by Alessandro Strigglio. Often referred to as the “first great opera,” Montverdi’s musical tale of the classic Greek tragedy of Orpheus and Eurydice will be performed by a group of Harvard faculty and undergraduates, along with early music professionals from the area. Tickets $20, $9 for students, available at the Harvard Box office and online. Friday, Saturday at 8 p.m. Horner Room, Agassiz Theater...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happening | 11/19/2004 | See Source »

...shows Encores! has produced shows that the selectors - Daykin, Fisher and artistic directors Walter Bobbie, Kathleen Marshall and Jack Viertel - look for semi-legendary shows that (1) were written by one of the premier composers; (2) boast a lush score, preferably with a few standards; (3) have a libretto that today is either amusingly anachronistic or lingeringly poignant; (4) offer strong roles to either contemporary musical theater stars or star-is-born kids; and (5) haven't received full-dress Broadway revivals in decades. The ideal musical, by these criteria, is Rodgers and Hart's 1937 "Babes in Arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Bravo! Encores! | 6/12/2004 | See Source »

...addition to fiction and poetry, Updike—who now tries to produce three pages every day—has written a play and the libretto for an opera with music by Gunther Schuller...

Author: By Nathan J. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Poon to Pulitzer, Updike Runs On | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

...deep emotional investment (“I’m happy as a pup / Since love looked up at me”). The main enjoyment comes from the songs; book writer Ludwig has managed to work the Gershwins’ most popular numbers into the libretto, including “Embraceable You,” “I’ve Got Rhythm,” “They Can’t Take That Away From Me,” and “Nice Work If You Can Get It,” making the musical...

Author: By Alexandra D. Hoffer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gershwin’s Follies Steal The Show | 5/7/2004 | See Source »

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