iron composers and libretto development

The NANOWorks crew. Thanks guys!

Greetings from a Starbucks in Strongsville Ohio, where I'm trying to catch up on emails and blogging. If you're in the Cleveland area, I'll be quickly presenting my music at Baldwin Wallace University sometime around 5:30 p.m. today. Oh, and I'll actually be writing a piece tomorrow. Supposedly.

Anyway.

Last Monday NANOWorks sponsored a libretto development for Doug Pew and Dara Weinberg's (Part I and III) of A GAME OF HEARTS. Why? Dara was in town from Poland!!!

But really, we want to help them, and this is an opera NANOWorks may want to produce (in serials) in the future. So, don't fret short-attention-span opera lovers (myself included), we will still stick to our mission statement.

There aren't very many libretto development opportunities, which is a crying shame since writers need to hear how their work is shaping. If a composer doesn't have a good libretto to work with, how do you expect a composer to write a good opera?


I'll also put this in perspec…