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Composer Ricky Ian Gordon faced a moment of truth when he was invited by Minnesota and Utah Operas to try his hand at John Steinbeck's great novel "The Grapes of Wrath."
"I read it for the first time, and when I finished, I was weeping," he recalls. "I also felt it was a real test. If you're a composer, and someone throws a story like this at you, are you going to say no? This was the moment when I realized I had to say yes, no matter what happened."See the full content of this document
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'Wrath' Composer, Librettist Welcome Challenge
Working with librettist Michael Korie, Gordon wrote a three-hour grand opera in American idioms that was acclaimed at its premiere and has been released as a three-CD set by PS Cl...
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