Tag: Brooklyn Academy of Music
Composer Ted Hearne Seeks to Understand His Place
"I am really interested in living in a way that helps other people be better. But I have to help myself be better. Composing is just the whole apparatus for that."
Lars Jan Turns “The White Album” into Theatre
"It's the piece of writing I've returned to most in my life. I found the essay to be a very compelling and theatrical monologue."
Composer Bryce Dessner’s Mapplethorpe Memories
"My challenge on this piece, which is text driven, is I hope my music measured up."
A High Degree of Difficulty for Opera’s Rod Gilfry
"It's almost like doing a cabaret show only it's highly-scripted and it's much harder music."