Come celebrate William Bolcom’s 80th birthday with an all-Bolcom program at Merkin Hall, Sunday, April 29, 2018 | 8:00pm

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William Bolcom. Photo Katryn Conlin.

William Bolcom. Photo Katryn Conlin.

The illustrious American composer William Bolcom is about to celebrate his 80th birthday! In his honor there will be a full program of Mr. Bolcom’s chamber music, including the world premiere of his Dark Dreams that will Not Disappear, commissioned and performed by violist Jacob Adams and pianist Angela Drăghicescu for this occasion.

Program:
Dark Dreams that Will Not Disappear (world premiere)
Let Evening Come (poetry by Maya Angelou)
Selections from Cabaret Songs
Fairy Tales

Artists:
Jacob Adams, viola
Angela Drăghicescu, piano
Elias Goldstein, viola
Dennis Parker, cello
Linda Tsatsanis, soprano
Yung-chiao Wei, double bass

About the author

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Michael Miller, Editor and Publisher of New York Arts, an International Journal for the Arts and The Berkshire Review, was trained as a classicist and art historian at Harvard and Oxford, worked in the art world for many years as a curator and dealer, and contributed reviews and articles to Bostonia, Master Drawings, Drawing, Threshold, and North American Opera Journal, as well as numerous articles for scholarly and popular periodicals. He has taught courses in classics, the English language, and art history at Oberlin, Rutgers, New York University, the New School, and Williams. Currently, when he is not at work on New York Arts, he writes fiction, pursues photography, and publishes scholarly work. In 2011 he contributed an introductory essay to Leonard Freed: The Italians / exh. cat. Io Amo L’Italia, exhibition at Le Stelline, Milan, and wrote the revised the section on American opera houses in The Grove Dictionary of American Music. He is currently at work on a libretto for a new opera by Lewis Spratlan, Midi, an adaptation of Euripides’ Medea set in the French West Indies, ca. 1930.

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