Spoken and Sung words in performance

This splendid little production, which premiered last December at the Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and had a brief run at the Marblehead Little Theatre this past weekend, is a creation of Igor Golyak, artistic director of the Arlekin Players, a Boston-area-based Russian-American troupe. It is perform

I began this in the seventies, and just finished it last year. But there is still music to write for it; quite a lot, in fact. It won’t be an opera, though. I plan to make it the third of three ebook releases, after the Little Tragedies and the second edition of The Woes of [...]

The late Lou Harrison was known for his interest in non-Western musical traditions, but his own music is rather selective in its susceptibility to “exotic” influences: it has very marked predilections and is anything but a bland multicultural hodge-podge. I had not known, however, about this piece,