Prof. Baber handed me the print version of this article at lunch-- here's the link. Mark Anthony Turnage (of "Three Screaming Popes" fame for you upperclassmen) has written an opera for Covent Garden that is based on Anna Nicole Smith.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/arts/music/13anna.html
It's a good read.
Here's the link to the Nico Muhly interview from NPR I was talking about last week as well.
http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2011/02/10/composer-nico-muhly
Looks cool. Perhaps the Anna Nicole Smith opera will attract a new audience to the music scene. Also loved the Muhly interview. What he said that made a lot of sense to me was:
ReplyDelete“The way I’ve gotten away with doing so many things is by not making too
many plans. There’s really no itinerary. Everything I’ve done has been a natural extension of wanting to work with friends, and wanting to surround myself with people whose music, or music-making, I really like.”