Frances and Emily enter the Charlotte Airport Rental Car Center. It’s a large, clean, open space, quite empty on this September morning. The Avis desk is on the far side of…
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As always, it was a pleasure to collaborate with the incomparable, Sky Macklay, on a short opera–the second in a series of operas initially inspired by the question, “Why do women have…
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This spring, at Opera on Tap’s “Her Kind” Cabaret and at American Opera Projects’ “First Glimpse” concert, Frances Pollock and I previewed a piece from our opera/musical-in-progress, Moms, with the song, “In…
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As our graduate thesis, Mike von der Nahmer and I wrote a first draft of a musical/opera based on the book of Esther. Esther is an adaptation of the Book of Esther that…
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Jennifer Goode Cooper performed “Only Job,” an aria from the opera, Transference, (libretto by Emily Roller and Frances Pollock, music by Frances Pollock) as one of the arias for American Opera Projects…
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Composer, Peter Hodgson, lyricist, Kathleen Wrinn, and I completed a highly productive residency in the beautiful Catskills, where we worked on our musical-in-progress, The Bridge. The piece is about the building of…
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“I’m just trying to take care of my own.” It’s a notion that, on the surface, makes sense. If all people took care of their own, we’d all be fine, right? If…
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Mrs. Brown had a responsibility, a big one. She was guardian of the most precious resource the world had ever had, knowledge. And she was not about to let it escape her…
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When I went to the MVA (Maryland’s DMV) in Baltimore to change over my Missouri driver license, the person taking my papers asked me what I was going to be doing in…
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How can a “good” person—one who cares about children—support a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion? I want to take some of the emotion out of this argument by using…