IN SHORT
Ireland, 1916. A rebel on the run meets two strangers. They offer refuge but they want something in return . . .
A semi-staged production of an opera for five voices and four instrumentalists, based on a classic play by W. B. Yeats. The venue is the 12th Floor Lounge in Fordham University's Lowenstein Building, entrance on the NW corner of 60th St. and Columbus Avenue.
The performers are drawn from the renowned new-music ensemble Contemporaneous, conducted by Claire Lewis.
ABOUT LARRY KRAMER
Lawrence (Larry) Kramer is the author of Experience: A History (2026), Experiencing Sound: The Sensation of Being (2024), Music and the Forms of Life (2022), The Hum of the World: A Philosophy of Listening (2019), Song Acts: Writings on Words and Music (2017), The Thought of Music (2016, winner of the ASCAP Foundation Virgil Thomson award for outstanding music criticism), Expression and Truth: On the Music of Knowledge (2012), Interpreting Music (2010), Why Classical Music Still Matters (2007), Critical Musicology and the Responsibility of Response: Selected Essays (2006), Opera and Modern Culture: Wagner and Strauss (2004), Musical Meaning: Toward a Critical History (2001), Franz Schubert: Sexuality, Subjectivity, Song (1998), After the Lovedeath: Sexual Violence and the Making of Culture (1997), Classical Music and Postmodern Knowledge (1995), Music as Cultural Practice: 1800-1900 (1990), and Music and Poetry: The Nineteenth Century and After (1984).
He has edited, introduced, and annotated Walt Whitman: Drum-Taps, The Complete 1856 Edition (2015), Hart Crane's The Bridge: An Annotated Edition (2011), and Lola Ridge, The Ghetto and Other Poems (2023). He was the editor of the journal 19th-Century Music from 1993 to 2025 and has edited five essay collections: Classical Music in a Changing World (with Alberto Nones, 2021), On Voice (2014, with Walter Bernhart), Walt Whitman and Modern Music (2000), Beyond the Soundtrack: Representing Music in Cinema (2006, with Richard Leppert and Daniel Goldmark), and Musical Meaning and Human Values (2009, with Keith Chapin). Professor Kramer is also a prizewinning composer and the director of Fordham’s Voices Up! concert series. His music has won nine composer competitions; it has been performed widely throughout the United States and Europe. An interview with Professor Kramer on Walt Whitman: Drum Taps may be found here. His website is http://lkmusic.org/.