Tag: Charles Kondek (librettist)

LOVE’S CALL for Voice* and Piano (2016)

PROGRAM NOTE Love’s Call (2016) is a setting for voice and piano of an English adaptation of a fragment from the Song of Songs. I extracted it from the libretto by Charles Kondek of my opera Between Two Worlds (The Dybbuk). The subtle adaptation/rearranging by Kondek of this deeply passionate, iconic Old Testament text creates…
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ANNE FRANK – An Opera in Two Acts (2016–2022)

Based on Anne Frank: “The Diary of a Young Girl”Het Achterhuis Libretto by Charles Kondek PROGRAM NOTE Composer’s Notes on Anne Frank (as printed in the program book of the premiere performances by the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Opera and Ballet Theater in Bloomington, IN, on March 3, 4, 9, 10, 2023): Anne…
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