1989 NYTimes article about Holy Blood and Crescent Moon
Posted: 02 May 2008 14:12PR found a great, long article from 1989 discussing Stewart's opera HB/CM among other things.
Betsy posted it the KForum but I thought it should also live here.
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http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.h ... A96F948260
YET IT ALL BEGAN - AND NO ONE INVOLVED DENIES THIS - AS the whim of a 15-year-old boy. In 1985, Copeland wrote a ballet score, ''King Lear,'' for the San Francisco Ballet, his first foray into the realm of high art. The ballet, a popular triumph, received mixed reviews. The dance and music critic from The San Francisco Examiner dismissed Copeland's music as ''jejune noodling,'' ''shoddy farrago.'' After the premiere, Copeland, during an interview on ''Entertainment Tonight,'' was asked when he planned to write his next ballet. He flippantly replied, ''After I write my opera.''
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Betsy posted it the KForum but I thought it should also live here.
[quote="policerule"]from an old animal logic piece:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.h ... A96F948260
YET IT ALL BEGAN - AND NO ONE INVOLVED DENIES THIS - AS the whim of a 15-year-old boy. In 1985, Copeland wrote a ballet score, ''King Lear,'' for the San Francisco Ballet, his first foray into the realm of high art. The ballet, a popular triumph, received mixed reviews. The dance and music critic from The San Francisco Examiner dismissed Copeland's music as ''jejune noodling,'' ''shoddy farrago.'' After the premiere, Copeland, during an interview on ''Entertainment Tonight,'' was asked when he planned to write his next ballet. He flippantly replied, ''After I write my opera.''
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