David Carradine stars as Woody Guthrie, the 1930's folk singer, composer and pro-union hero.
Collaborating with the Irish folk rock composer Liam O Maonlai, he takes a step back from narrative, arriving at something simpler and brighter, less dramatic but perhaps even more visceral.
14-15), Schumanhenthusiasticsiastic proponent of collaboration, enlisted a distinguished poet, Cynthia Zarin, and an emerging folk-classical composer, Ellis Ludwig-Leone, whose score is performed live.
Mr. Tao favors slinky minimalism and, apparently, numerical titles: The program includes "2," a duet set to music by the Chinese folk-rock composer Xiao He, and "4," a quartet that will have its North American premiere.
"From the moment we met, the conversation flowed easily," said Ms. Chapin, 41, a daughter of the late Harry Chapin, the folk-rock composer and performer who was a founder of World Hunger Year, an international antihunger organization.
Folk-pop composer, Daniel Grinberg's, latest project titled Short Stories is passionate and powerful and even soothing and melancholy at times.
Despite a sensational score, which many folks including composer Jerry Herman believe is Herman's greatest, Mack and Mabel didn't score well in New York.
The folk-singer, composer, and sometime-activist launched the "New IRS" interactive website after meeting with a group of web developers at a "hackathon" at the Sundance Film Festival.
It was Constant Lambert who noted that "the strength of the English tradition in art is that it has always been open to fruitful foreign influences", and that the "self-conscious Englishry practised by the folk-song composers was in itself peculiarly un-English".
Some folks distrust composers who handle the "seams" between big set pieces well; they want their "stand and deliver" performance moments followed by an orchestral button that invites / enables / triggers applause.
