tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post115146055536670294..comments2024-03-25T16:51:04.370-05:00Comments on <a href="http://ionarts.blogspot.com/">Ionarts</a>: Summer Opera 2006: "After Life"Charles T. Downeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14978821617871429169noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-1151586730721340802006-06-29T08:12:00.000-05:002006-06-29T08:12:00.000-05:00Thanks, Charles... Ironically, I myself forgot to ...Thanks, Charles... Ironically, I myself forgot to note above that the librettist to "Writing to Vermeer" is the British avant-garde filmmaker, Peter Greenaway.<BR/><BR/>Also, I noticed that Louis Andriessen thanks Michel Van der Aa as that works "co-composer" on the acknowledgement page of the Nonesuch recording. Given my less than fully positive feelings about that work, I still would very muchGarth Trinklhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11084463787729969177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-1151528716527356922006-06-28T16:05:00.000-05:002006-06-28T16:05:00.000-05:00Garth, thanks for making explicit what I had left ...Garth, thanks for making explicit what I had left implied: "a libretto [he] adapted." Interesting to hear about the Nonesuch disc, too.Charles T. Downeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14978821617871429169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-1151517428646953402006-06-28T12:57:00.000-05:002006-06-28T12:57:00.000-05:00While waiting for "After Life" to come out on CD o...While waiting for "After Life" to come out on CD or DVD or PBS, you can sample the "sound design interludes" that Van der Aa provided for Louis Andriessen's "Writing to Vermeer", which is available on Nonesuch.<BR/>Andriessen warmly acknowledges the contribution of his younger colleague, Van der Aa, to that project. (Van der Aa apparently assembled his own libretto for "After Life", after the Garth Trinklhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11084463787729969177noreply@blogger.com