Tom Cipullo: After Life - Lori Laitman: In Sleep T
Label: NAXOS AMERICAN CLASSICS Catalog: 8669036 Format: COOK ORTH PINE CHENOVICK MUSIC OF REMEMBRANCE MILLER, CATHERINE COOKAfter Life, Tom Cipullo’s modern opera, investigates the role of art in a distressed world, and asks heavy questions about an artist’s obligation in confronting humanity in all of its good and bad parts.; David Mason wrote the libretto for the work, which imagines a meeting between Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein as ghosts, who show their brilliance and flaws.; Sleep the World is Yours, a song cycle by Lori Laitman, sets three lovely poems by Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger, who sadly would perish in a Nazi camp at the young age of 18. Price: $19.98 |