The News from Poems Rehearsals are under way for the semi-staged reading at the American Opera Center April 10.  The cast is extraordinary:  Keith Phares, baritone, as William Carlos Williams; […]

She Never Lost a Passenger Last February Opera Kansas, despite the miserable fiscal scene in that state, took this opera into 12 schools. Artistic director Paul Brodene Smith reported “about […]

The Giver I’m really looking forward to my first trip to Tulsa for their production of The Giver, January 10 and 11.  While there, I’ll be doing a Composer Forum […]

The Giver Having had such a good experience with the excerpts of Miranda’s Waltz performed by Ravel Virtual Studios, I asked them to create three short instrumental excerpts of music […]