Jun 29 Blog Roy Harris In the 1930s, a small group of composers responded to the challenge of creating a truly “American” classical music, whose roots were planted as deeply in the soil of their country as Bach’s was in his. Of them, Aaron Copland may be the most iconic, but Roy Harris (1898-1979) made the deepest mark in the […] By WUOL Jun 29 Blog Roy Harris By WUOL
Sep 12 Video Call Me Ishmael Jake Heggie, composer of the opera Dead Man Walking, worked with librettist Gene Scheer to bring Herman Melville’s epic novel Moby Dick to life on the opera stage. A commission of The Dallas Opera, with San Francisco Opera, San Diego Opera, Calgary Opera and the State Opera of South Australia, opened in 2010 in Dallas. […] By Daniel Gilliam Sep 12 Video Call Me Ishmael By Daniel Gilliam