Tag: World Premiere
Composer Nina Shekhar Offers You Her Glitter Monster
"There's no rule that says you can't do this. This tradition has evolved over time because of that."
Mary Kouyoumdjian and Her First Opera…
"If anyone has experienced grief, we all know that this brings out the best and the worst in people around you."
Artist/Creator Edgar Arceneaux Goes for All or Nothing
"The show is very critical of our desire to learn about the stories of people who've been taken advantage of."
Composer Reena Esmail And Her Water Music
"Malhaars are ragas that are designed to beckon rain...am I somehow beckoning the thing that I am trying to write about the disappearance of?"
UPDATED: Composer Kevin Puts Discusses “The Hours”
"The emotional situations; I live for these these things as a composer. I live for the moments when I can let these situations wash over me and let music come out. This is why I do it."
The Look of Love in Mark Morris’s Eyes
"As Burt and I warned each other, it's not a jukebox show. It's not get slightly drunk and sing along. Although you're welcome to, you know, if you do it quietly."
Johnny Gandelsman Explores America
"I can't say that I'm an activist in any way. I'm hoping that through the work of being a musician there's something positive that I can bring to the conversation or people's experience."
What Would Martha Graham Think?
"It was important for me to not see Martha Graham. I really look for people who have developed their own voices and ask them to take inspiration from Martha Graham's ideas."
Composer Ricardo Mollá Gives the Trombone Some Love
"At some point you have to organize elements in a way that you create beauty at the end. I would say the biggest challenge is to be aware when you have to delete part of the music you like."
Tom Dugan Talks Tevye Traditions
"Sometimes the hero knows what to do. Tevye ain't that. The reason that he's popular is because they either see themselves, their husbands or their father up on stage."