Past VOX: 2004

May 26 & 27, 2004
Peter J. Sharp Theatre and Thalia Theatre, Symphony Space

Margaret Garner, music by Richard Danielpour (NY), libretto by Toni Morrison (NJ) follows the tragic and shocking case of a fugitive slave.

Summer and All it Brings, music by Daniel Felsenfeld (CA), libretto by Ernest Hilbert (NY) is a monodrama depicting modern variations on the Greek gods Amor and Psyche.

Korczak’s Orphans, music by Adam Silverman (NY), libretto by Susan Gubernat (NJ), recreates events on and around the day an orphanage in the Warsaw ghetto was flushed out and its inhabitants sent to Treblinka concentration camp.

Waking in New York, music by Elodie Lauten (NY), based on the poem by Allen Ginsberg.

The Reverend Jim Jones, music by John Eaton (IL), libretto by James Reston, Jr. (NY) traces the decline of the charismatic minister and founder of the People’s Temple.

Dream President, music and libretto by Jennifer Griffith (OR), alternates spoken monologues with arias as a professional dominatrix dreams about the US president.

Glory Denied, music by Tom Cipullo (MA), adapted from the novel by Tom Philpott, follows the challenges a Vietnam faced upon returning home from the war.

Inspiration, music by Donald Hagar (NY), libretto by John Burns (WI), tells the true story of a man who attached weather balloons to his lawn chair to fly 16,000 feet over Los Angeles.

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