". These more recent productions have been in general favorably received, not the least because of the performance in all of them of Lauren Flanigan as Christine Mannon. The Florida Grand Opera staged it in November 2013 in Miami and Ft. Lauderdale. Mourning Becomes Electra (opera) Mourning Becomes Electra is an opera in 3 acts by composer Marvin David Levy. The work uses an English language libretto by Henry W. Butler after the play of the same name by Eugene O'Neill. It premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City on March 17, 1967 with Zubin Mehta conducting. Mihalis"
"Marvin David Levy Marvin David Levy (August 2, 1932 – February 9, 2015) was an American composer, best known for his opera ""Mourning Becomes Electra"". ""Mourning Becomes Electra"" was given its world premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1967. Although deemed a failure at the time, the work was revived in 1998 in a revised version by the composer to a triumphant success at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. The New York City Opera and the Seattle Opera staged the work in 2003, and the Florida Grand Opera staged the opera in 2013. A disc featuring ""Canto de los Marranos"""
"(""Song of the Marranos"") and excerpts from ""Shir Shel Moshe"" (""Song of Moses"") was issued as part of the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music by Naxos in 2004. The Passaic, New Jersey-born Levy died in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on February 9, 2015, aged 82. Marvin David Levy Marvin David Levy (August 2, 1932 – February 9, 2015) was an American composer, best known for his opera ""Mourning Becomes Electra"". ""Mourning Becomes Electra"" was given its world premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1967. Although deemed a failure at the time, the work was revived in 1998 in a revised"
"Electra becomes Lavinia, Aegisthus becomes Adam Brant, etc. As a Greek tragedy made modern, the play features murder, adultery, incestuous love and revenge, and even a group of townspeople who function as a kind of Greek chorus. Though fate alone guides characters' actions in Greek tragedies, O'Neill's characters have motivations grounded in 1930s-era psychological theory as well. The play can easily be read from a Freudian perspective, paying attention to various characters' Oedipus complexes and Electra complexes. ""Mourning Becomes Electra"" is divided into three plays with themes that correspond to the ""Oresteia"" trilogy. Much like Aeschylus' plays ""Agamemnon"", ""The Libation"
"He has championed music by such emerging composers as Laurence Crane and Jacob ter Veldhuis and has premiered many works written for him by other composers, including: Joshua Kohl, (of the Degenerate Art Ensemble), David Mesler, Christopher DeLaurenti and John Fitz Rogers, who in 2001 wrote the forty-five-minute piece ""Transit"" for Nicolella, scored for electric guitar and computer generated sound. His own compositions include works for solo guitar, chamber music with guitar, a classical guitar concerto (""Guitar Concerto""), and an electric guitar concerto (""Ten Years Passed""). His most recent major composition for soprano, guitar (electric and classical) and orchestra, ""The"
"Euripides, entitled ""The Bacchae Trilogy"", with an especially strong ensemble of mainly graduate actors and faculty artist Keith Fowler. Continuing to the present at UCI (now as a Distinguished Professor), in 2013 he directed a re-imagining of Euripides' ""Trojan Women"", entitled ""After Troy"". Most recently he has written and directed a piece titled ""The Electra Project"" which was inspired by several sources of the classic Electra story. ""The Electra Project"" featured a large ensemble composed of student actors, supplemented by the Romanian musicians known as Grupul Iza, or The Iza Group. As a writer, he has published eleven books of"
"has also written a large number of pieces for chamber groups: ""Changes"" (1990) for chamber ensemble, ""Speaking in Tongues"" (1993) for 15 instruments, ""Foreign Affairs"" (1994) for 15 instruments, ""As I Lie Still"" (1996) for two pianos and percussion, ""Lacrymosa"" (1996) for soprano, B-flat clarinet and piano, ""From Dusk to Dawn"" (1997) for chamber ensemble, ""Rush"" (1997) for pipa and string quartet, ""Woman: Songs on poems by Sandra Cisneros"" (1997) for mezzo-soprano, flute, viola and cello, ""Bop!"" (1998) for brass quintet and optional drumset, ""Dog Days"" (1999) for amplified chamber ensemble, ""Come as you are"" (2000) for pipa and nine"
"Sonatas and Interludes Sonatas and Interludes is a cycle of twenty pieces for prepared piano by American avant-garde composer John Cage (1912–1992). It was composed in 1946–48, shortly after Cage's introduction to Indian philosophy and the teachings of art historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, both of which became major influences on the composer's later work. Significantly more complex than his other works for prepared piano, ""Sonatas and Interludes"" is generally recognized as one of Cage's finest achievements. The cycle consists of sixteen sonatas (thirteen of which are cast in binary form, the remaining three in ternary form) and four more freely"
"write a new, 40-55 minute long poem for the prestigious Noord Nederlands Dans Collective, choreographed by Juilliard alum Stephen Shropshire. The work, Instrumental, was achieved by using fourteen dancers, an orchestra, one poet and was conducted by Emily Wells and Timmy Straw. It received rave reviews in the Netherlands and Canada. The poem for Instrumental, ""Strange Light"" is simultaneously a cosmic love story and an auto-biographical gut-search, culls themes present throughout his poetry into a single work, where they are clarified in the light of a newfound personal vulnerability. “When you die, it is poetry that leaves the body,” Brown"
"Allen Strange Allen Strange (June 26, 1943 in Calexico, California – February 20, 2008 in Seattle, Washington) was an American composer. He authored two books, ""Electronic Music: Systems, Techniques, and Controls"" (first published in the 1970s) and ""Programming and Meta-Programming the Electro-Organism"". He co-wrote ""The Contemporary Violin: Extended Performance Techniques"" with his wife, Patricia. Allen Strange studied composition with Donal Michalsky at the California State University, Fullerton. He received his MA in 1967. He later studied composition with Robert Erickson, Harry Partch, and Ken Gaburo, and electronic media with Pauline Oliveros at the University of California, San Diego from 1967-8"
"Selective bibliography Richard Strauss Richard Georg Strauss (; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include ""Der Rosenkavalier"", ""Elektra"", ""Die Frau ohne Schatten"" and ""Salome""; his Lieder, especially his ""Four Last Songs""; his tone poems, including ""Don Juan"", ""Death and Transfiguration"", ""Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks"", ""Also sprach Zarathustra"", ""Ein Heldenleben"", ""Symphonia Domestica"", and ""An Alpine Symphony""; and other instrumental works such as ""Metamorphosen"" and his Oboe Concerto. Strauss was also a prominent conductor in Western Europe and the Americas, enjoying"
"Strange Conversation Strange Conversation is an album by singer/songwriter Kris Delmhorst, released in 2006. Multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Delmhorst takes on setting some works of famous poets to music along with her own original compositions. The lead off track is named after Italian composer Baldassare Galuppi. Inspired by and quoting heavily from the Robert Browning poem A Toccata of Galuppi's, Delmhorst reflects on the composers times and style: ""And the minor third so bitter, the six chord like a sigh,<br> suspension, solution, asking must we die, must we die must we die?<br> And the seventh says well fellas, life might not"
"Richard Strauss Richard Georg Strauss (; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include ""Der Rosenkavalier"", ""Elektra"", ""Die Frau ohne Schatten"" and ""Salome""; his Lieder, especially his ""Four Last Songs""; his tone poems, including ""Don Juan"", ""Death and Transfiguration"", ""Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks"", ""Also sprach Zarathustra"", ""Ein Heldenleben"", ""Symphonia Domestica"", and ""An Alpine Symphony""; and other instrumental works such as ""Metamorphosen"" and his Oboe Concerto. Strauss was also a prominent conductor in Western Europe and the Americas, enjoying quasi-celebrity status"
"for him. These include Iannis Xenakis' ""Dox Orkh"" and Toshio Hosokawa's ""Landscape III,"" both for violin and orchestra, as well as Brian Ferneyhough's ""Terrain,"" Luca Francesconi's ""Riti Neurali"" and ""Body Electric,"" James Dillon's ""Vernal Showers,"" Jonathan Harvey's ""Scena,"" Brice Pauset's ""Vita Nova,"" Roger Reynolds ""Aspiration"" and Salvatore Sciarrino's ""Le Stagioni Artificiali"" all for violin and ensemble. He has also been responsible for the creation of many solo works including both of Ferneyhough's solo violin works, ""Intermedio"" and ""Unsichtbare Farben."" He was responsible for inspiring John Cage to complete his ""Freeman Etudes"" giving the first complete performance of them in 1991"
"Jarrell, Magnus Lindberg, Ivan Fedele and others. The Clarinet Concerto (2006) steeped in colour marked a turning point in Fagerlund’s career as a composer. Like a trek through areas that all sound different, a series of sensations, it reinforced his status as one of the leading Finnish composers. The alternation of darkness and light, of movement and motionlessness, of violence and sensitivity, permeates the tone poem ""Isola"" (Island, 2007), another major orchestral work. Both works were premiered at the Korsholm Music Festival. His surrealistic chamber opera ""Döbeln"" (2009) constructed around hallucinations won the Record of the Year award of the"
"(2003) ""Medea"" (2002) ""King Lear"" (2001) ""The Tempest"" (Shakespeare Globe) (2000) ""Evropa"" (1995) ""Sarajevo"" (1994) ""Terrible Mouth"" (1992) ""Morte d’Arthur"" (1989) ""Stone Garden"" (1989) ""Faust"" parts I and II (1988) ""The Electrification of the Soviet Union"" (1987) ""Zansa"" (1986) ""Hell’s Angels"" (1985) ""Mythologies"" (1985) ""Wildlife"" (1984) ""Apollo Distraught"" (1982) ""7 Words"" (1972) ""The Backroom Boys"" (with Michael Coveney) (1971) ""An Exhibition of Ourselves"" (1970) ""Cinderella"" (1969) ""Happy Haven"" (1968) BA, BMus(Oxon), DLitt, FRCM, FEIS, FRSE Nigel Osborne Emeritus Professor Nigel Osborne MBE (born 23 June 1948, Manchester, England) is a British composer, teacher and aid worker. He served as Reid"
"Therefore, other than Strauss and numerous concert overtures by others, there are only isolated symphonic poems by German and Austrian composers—Hans von Bülow's ""Nirwana"" (1866), Hugo Wolf's "" Penthesilea"" (1883-5) and Arnold Schoenberg's ""Pelleas und Melisande"" (1902-3). Because of its clear relationship between poem and music, Schoenberg's ""Verklärte Nacht"" (1899) for string sextet has been characterised as a non-orchestral 'symphonic poem'. Alexander Ritter, who himself composed six symphonic poems in the vein of Liszt's works, directly influenced Richard Strauss in writing program music. Strauss wrote on a wide range of subjects, some of which had been previously considered unsuitable to"
"Alan Rich wrote, ""Mehta brought to the conducting of the score a kind of bedazzlement that has no peer in recent times ... It was a lunging, teeming, breathless performance that still had plenty of breath."" He subsequently conducted the Met in its performances of ""Carmen"", ""Tosca"", and ""Turandot"". For Montreal's Expo 67, he conducted both the Montreal and the Los Angeles orchestras together for a performance of Berlioz' ""Symphonie Fantastique"". Also that year he conducted the world premier of Marvin David Levy's ""Mourning Becomes Electra"". But by May 1967, his schedule was becoming overcrowded and he resigned his Montreal"
"the link to the John Cage database below. Sonatas and Interludes Sonatas and Interludes is a cycle of twenty pieces for prepared piano by American avant-garde composer John Cage (1912–1992). It was composed in 1946–48, shortly after Cage's introduction to Indian philosophy and the teachings of art historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, both of which became major influences on the composer's later work. Significantly more complex than his other works for prepared piano, ""Sonatas and Interludes"" is generally recognized as one of Cage's finest achievements. The cycle consists of sixteen sonatas (thirteen of which are cast in binary form, the remaining"
"all for Jana Frenklova), ""Trilogy"" (1992), ""Musica Aeterna"" (1997) and ""Sereno"" (2004), organ works including ""Mutations II"" (1971), ""Momentum"" (1977) and ""Esultante"" (1977 - these last two for Gillian Weir), ""Dreams, Dances and Lullabies"" for harp (1990), ""Silentia Noctis"" for high voice and piano (1989), and many choral works, notably ""Carmen Paschale"" (1981), ""Hymnus Ante Somnum"" (1985), ""Sequentia ad Sancte Michaele"" (1985), ""Westminster Mass"" (1990 - for Martin Neary), ""Recordatio"" (1999) and a sequence of eleven ""Sacred Chants"" (2005). Lewis's music is characterised by rhythmic energy and harmonic complexity alternating with extreme stillness; latterly his music has tended towards greater"
"Passing Strange Passing Strange is a comedy-drama rock musical about a young African American's artistic journey of self-discovery in Europe, with strong elements of philosophical existentialism, metafiction (especially self-referential humor), and the artistic journey. The musical's lyrics and book are by Stew with music and orchestrations by Heidi Rodewald and Stew. It was created in collaboration with director Annie Dorsen. The musical was developed at the Sundance Institute Theatre Lab in 2004 and 2005, one of the few works to be invited back for a second round of development. It had productions in Berkeley, California and Off-Broadway before opening on"
"He received numerous prizes and distinctions for his compositions, recordings, and for the scores produced by his publishing company. His notable compositions include the series of nineteen ""Klavierstücke"" (Piano Pieces), ""Kontra-Punkte"" for ten instruments, the electronic/musique-concrète ""Gesang der Jünglinge"", ""Gruppen"" for three orchestras, the percussion solo ""Zyklus"", ""Kontakte"", the cantata ""Momente"", the live-electronic ""Mikrophonie I"", ""Hymnen"", ""Stimmung"" for six vocalists, ""Aus den sieben Tagen"", ""Mantra"" for two pianos and electronics, ""Tierkreis"", ""Inori"" for soloists and orchestra, and the gigantic opera cycle ""Licht"". He died of sudden heart failure at the age of 79, on 5 December 2007 at his home"
"works, whether set to English or Hebrew texts, were particularly praised. He composed the score for Martha Graham's 1962 ballet ""Phaedra"". He also wrote four operas, ""The Intruder"" (1956), ""Pantagleize"" (1967), ""The Last Lover"" (1975), and ""Apollonia"" (1979). Notable concertos include ""Violin Concerto"" which was written for Itzhak Perlman and recorded by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa, conductor, and his ""Cello Concerto"", commissioned by Janos Starker and recorded by Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Leon Botstein, conductor. One of Starer’s better-known pieces is ""Even and Odds"" for young pianists. He is also known for his pieces entitled ""Sketches in Color"","
"House, ""Sartorii"" (1994), ""Entre Huella y Pisada"" (1996), which received various awards from the Corporation for Music and Scenic Arts (NEA), and ""Tejiendo Memorias"" (1998). She produced a piece for the Balletts des Staatstheater Cottbus, ""es lasst sich nicht lesen.."" with support from the British Council (Berlin). ""Strange Muse"", produced in June 1997, was commissioned by the Institute of Culture of Puerto Rico in collaboration with musicians from the Puerto Rico Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1997 she premiered a work for Foreign Bodies Dance Company developed with support from East Midlands Arts. She has also choreographed ""Recollections"" (1999) for Andanza (Puerto"
"revival of Tennessee Williams' ""Orpheus Descending"" at the Donmar Warehouse in London. Michael Billington, reviewing for ""The Guardian"", described her performance as ""an exemplary study of an immigrant woman who has acquired a patina of resilient toughness but who slowly acknowledges her sensuality."" At the National Theatre in November 2003 she again won praise playing Christine Mannon (""defiantly cool, camp and skittish"", ""Evening Standard""; ""glows with mature sexual allure"", ""Daily Telegraph"") in a revival of Eugene O'Neill's ""Mourning Becomes Electra"" directed by Howard Davies. ""This production was one of the best experiences of my professional life, The play was four"
"Field, ""The Cautionary Tales of Eugene Field"", 2006-7). Strange retired from academia in 2002 and moved to Bainbridge Island, Washington to pursue a full-time career composing, concertizing with his wife, and working with his jazz trio, Cuvée. He died on February 20, 2008. Allen Strange Allen Strange (June 26, 1943 in Calexico, California – February 20, 2008 in Seattle, Washington) was an American composer. He authored two books, ""Electronic Music: Systems, Techniques, and Controls"" (first published in the 1970s) and ""Programming and Meta-Programming the Electro-Organism"". He co-wrote ""The Contemporary Violin: Extended Performance Techniques"" with his wife, Patricia. Allen Strange studied"
"""The comedy of errors"" (1990), ""Hunter’s tales"" (1990),""A tavern on the road to Europe"" (1991), ""Electra"" (1992), ""Clowns"" (1993), ""Caligula"" (1994), ""Hecuba"" (1994), ""Confusions"" (1994), ""Dicho Zograf"" (1994),"" Harlequin"" (1995),"" Prometheus"" (1995) ""Waiting for the spirit"" (1995), ""Fortinbras is dead "" (1996), "" Farewall"" (1997), ""Two in Eden"" (1998), ""Figaro's wedding"" (1998), ""Jane Zadrogaz""(2001), ""Ghoul Quest"" (2001) ""Completed works by Shakespeare"" (2002), ""Advertisements for old clowns"" (2002), ""Midsummer Night's Dream"" (2008) Dimitrije Bužarovski Dimitrije Bužarovski Ph.D. () (born August 8, 1952, Skopje, Macedonia) is a Macedonian composer, versatile artist and a scholar with interests in different fields: composition, musicology, computer"
"as being the substitute Tosca in Covent Garden's famous 1965 revival of the 1964 Franco Zeffirelli production of the opera. When Maria Callas cancelled her appearances in three out of the four scheduled performances, Collier stepped in, to great acclaim. In 1967, she created the role of Christine Mannon in the world premiere of Marvin David Levy's ""Mourning Becomes Electra"" at the Metropolitan Opera, in which Evelyn Lear and Sherrill Milnes also sang. Her other roles with the Met included Musetta, Tosca (on tour), and Santuzza in ""Cavalleria rusticana"". In 1968, she participated in the first opera telecast in Australia"
"of Marvin David Levy's ""Mourning Becomes Electra"". In 1969 she became a member of the Bavarian State Opera where she remained for more than 20 years. She has also appeared as a guest artist with several major opera houses and opera festivals internationally, including the Bayreuth Festival, the Frankfurt Opera, Graz, the Hamburg State Opera, the Salzburg Festival, and the Vienna State Opera among others. Lilian Sukis Lilian Sukis (born 29 June 1939, Kaunas) is a Canadian operatic soprano of Lithuanian birth. After earning diplomas from the University of Toronto and McMaster University, she made her professional opera debut in"
"Olivia Bonelli Olivia Bonelli - soprano, 1920-1990. Her career covered a span of almost 30 years, from the late 1940s through the 1970s. While short of attaining ""super-star"" status, she nevertheless enjoyed a popular, steady and accomplished vocal career. She went from a small town choir (Troy, New York) to become a soloist at New York's Radio City Music Hall, to several of the USA's major opera companies, to a debut at New York City Opera,(1956–1964) to the Metropolitan Opera, for a special reading performance of Marvin David Levy's, ""Mourning Becomes Electra."" Along the way, she spent a year traveling"
"memorialized William Schuman (Violoncello Concerto—1992), the James Bulger murder (Flute Concerto—1993), the composer Stephen Albert (Symphony No. 2—1994), and Rouse's mother (""Envoi""—1995). After ""Envoi"" he purposely set out to compose scores that were more ""light infused"", works intended to take on a less dark cast; pieces from this second half of the 1990s include ""Compline"" (1996), ""Kabir Padavali"" (1997), the ""Concert de Gaudí"" (1998), ""Seeing"" (1998), and ""Rapture"" (2000). From 2000 on Rouse created works of varying temperaments, from his thorny Clarinet Concerto (2001) to his rock-infused ""The Nevill Feast"" (2003) to his romantic Oboe Concerto (2004). The most significant"
"practising musician has been an important influence on her approach to composition. Her music is also informed by her abiding interest in dance. She began experimenting with classical composition in the 1980s while still playing in rock bands. Early works include ""Terrible"" (1982) and ""Postludium aus Vergessenem"" (1985). Later in the decade she co-founded the zeit-Musik collective of composers and musicologists, and concentrated on music exploring the relationship between text and sound. Works from this period include the radio pieces ""Inside-outside II"" (1989) and ""Und was, wenn die Schlange ein Schwein gewesen wäre?"" (1989). Her interest in electronic music and"
"John Adams (composer) John Coolidge Adams (born February 15, 1947) is an American composer, clarinetist, and conductor of classical music and opera, with strong roots in minimalism. His works include ""Nixon in China"" (1987), ""Harmonielehre"" (1985), ""Short Ride in a Fast Machine"" (1986), ""On the Transmigration of Souls"" (2002), a choral piece commemorating the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2003), and ""Shaker Loops"" (1978), a minimalist four-movement work for strings. His operas include ""Nixon in China"" (1987), which recounts Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China, ""Doctor Atomic"" (2005),"