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Monday, November 10th, 2008 at 7:30 p.m.
AFTER DINNER OPERA COMPANY The first 60 years
AFTER DINNER OPERA COMPANY, THE FIRST 60 YEARS is a retrospective of their work promoting American opera and American opera composers.
Founded in 1949 by Richard Flusser the Company toured coast to coast and we will present musical excerpts by Seymour Barab, Leonard Bernstein, Marc Blitzstein, Duke Ellington and several other composers from the company’s long and important history. In 1956, taking American Opera to Europe for the first time, the company performed Gertrude Stein’s In A Garden at the Edinburgh Festival and in Paris with Alice B. Toklas in the audience. For the Bicentennial in 1976, the ADOC unearthed an American opera, Buxom Joan written in 1778. The audience will travel by narrative interspersed with music excerpts from many path finding premiers. From fun and ebullient to dramatic the works are simply charming.
Leonard Nimoy Thalia Hall
at Symphony Space www.symphonyspace.org
2537 Broadway at 95th Street
New York, NY 10011
212.932.3228