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...work is certainly meant to be experimental, and the set is powerful in that it places the audience in a sterile, foreign world. The set consists of three lamps, a piano, and a bed. Black plastic, splattered with red paint, stretches across the floors, the walls, and the furniture. A clear plastic sheet serves as the patient's bedsheets. The set, probably unintentionally, reinforces our distance from Alex and inhibits our empathy...
Vosgerchian, known better to undergraduates as the teacher of Literature and Arts B-59, "Piano Music of the 19th Century: The Shorter Forms," said in a recent interview that she was leaving because "the time came," and "change was inevitable...
...concert orchestra, plus three different choirs and nine soloists. The songs ranged from a haunting quasi-Renaissance madrigal to a smashing reggae finale. Bolcom should have won the Pulitzer Prize for that, but he came in second, then won it in 1988 for his 12 New Etudes for piano...
...colleague as saying that he is the only serious composer who drives a Cadillac. But he has worked hard for his popularity, and he still does. His tenth string quartet premiered last year, and Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax will tour four cities with his cello-and-piano sonata in May. Casino Paradise (an opera about a gangster "that's more or less like a musical") premieres in Philadelphia in April. Other coming works: a "baby opera" about Mozart's librettist Lorenzo da Ponte; a song cycle of poems by American women for Marilyn Horne; and a clarinet concerto...
...Lyric Opera of Chicago has asked him to undertake Frank Norris' McTeague. Bolcom recalls that in his student days he improvised at the piano during a silent-movie showing of Greed, Erich von Stroheim's classic film version of McTeague. "I was bowled over. I thought, 'Jesus, this is an opera.' " The libretto is almost done, and the composer already has a fat folder full of musical sketches. "It is about sex and violence, passions and emotions," Bolcom says gleefully. And he notes, just as gleefully, that the story is set in the ragtime...