Randall Thompson’s Solomon and Balkis: Redux for Chamber Orchestra
By Phillip Collister
Randall Thompson was one of the U.S’s most prominent composers of the 20th century. His only one-act opera, Solomon and Balkis has been reduced for small chamber orchestra by Prof. Phillip Collister, Dept. Of Music. Prof. Collister will discuss his sabbatical project and the process by which he created a flexible reduction for chamber orchestra (10-12 solo instruments) for this opera as well as the historical importance of Solomon and Balkis. The project will become part of a rental catalogue of operas and other orchestrated works for ECSchirmer and Morningstar Music Publishers.
The presentation will take place on Friday, November 18 from 3-4:30 pm in CA 3080.
