Opera lovers can be forgiven for imagining the works they love were born in a flash of inspiration. Sometimes the journey is a bit more arduous. The UNCSA Composition Department met with Jennifer Higdon via Skype on September 20th to talk about her opera Cold Mountain. We got the two things we had hoped for: a rich and detailed rundown of the eleven-year process from conception to premiere, … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2017
All Fall Down
We’ve got a packed fall season in the Composition Department of the UNC School of the Arts. For those who aren’t familiar with it, this is a campus of about 1200 students, all artists, from high school through graduate school. Our composers have a ridiculous number of opportunities to write absolute music, music for film, for dance, for theater, installations – whatever they want to dive into, … [Read more...]