Opera News: Death and the Powers
Pretty excited that my review of Death and the Powers is in this month’s Opera News!
Pretty excited that my review of Death and the Powers is in this month’s Opera News!
Willie Nelson and Lyle Lovett have been honored as the Official Texas State Musician of the Year in the past, but last year’s honoree was Conspirare founder and artistic director Craig Hella Johnson. There’s a very good reason for that.
The second installment in my Brooklyn Rider coverage as well as the skinny on the recent “Copland and Mexico” goings-on in Austin.
Wow. I just got word that my work for violin and piano finding the air up there was chosen as one of the two winners of the Suzanne and Lee Ettelson Composer’s Award.
Endowed by Suzanne Ettelson in memory of Lee Ettelson, the Suzanne and Lee Ettelson Composer’s Awards for New Chamber Works by American Composers is nationally recognized as a major opportunity for composers. Its purpose is to honor the best in current American music and to provide composers with a prominent forum for their work.
I now regret exactly zero % of the time I spent putting off work on my dissertation last summer.
New review of the recent No Idea Festival over at NMBx.
I recently headed north to check out the Dallas Opera production of Tod Machover’s Death and the Powers.