Pat Morehead to work with Chamber Opera Chicago
Pat will be orchestrating arrangements of period works for Chamber Opera Chicago’s September production of Jane Austen’s Persuasion, Barbara Landis, artistic director.
But it was Morehead’s “It Is Dangerous To Read Newspapers” that seemed most relevant. Set to a Margaret Atwood poem about the cruelties of war, it’s ferocious in anger and anguish while sinking into deep pessimism. Soprano (Barbara Ann) Martin neatly conveyed the ambivalence urged on by Philip Morehead’s vigorous pounding.
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