Several things make a post:
- Bang on a Can has a marathon coming up on June 6, 2021, from 1 to 5 p.m.; for details, see the web site live.bangonacan.org.
- Estonian composer Erki Pärnoja has an album of "cross-genre" choral music out.
- Flutist of flutists Claire Chase and clarinetist Joshua Rubin have released an EP of Alvin Lucier's Monteverdi Shapero, in honor of Lucier's 90th birthday, and yes, that's my late teacher Harold Shapero in close company with Claudio Monteverdi. You can hear it at Chase's web site, complete with informative notes.
- Opera Orlando's 2021-22 season includes La Traviata, Rigoletto, and Stella Sung's The Secret River (libretto by Mark Campbell).
- The New York Opera Fest has been going on for a month and continues into June with a huge list of programs.
- Congratulations to Douglas Kearney, who has been named the first recipient of Opera America's Campbell Opera Librettist Prize. Kearney is a poet, with seven books of poetry published, and the librettist of several operas, with others forthcoming:
- Crescent City and Sweet Land, both of which The Industry performed to great acclaim
- Mordake
- Sucktion
- Call for scores from the string quartet Ethel, due date July 1, 2021. Read about it at HomeBaked Round V.
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