Seattle composer and pianist Wayne Horvitz, who did a dandy job a few years back with his music theater piece about labor martyr Joe Hill, has taken on another labor story for a collaboration with The Central Heating Lab at A Contemporary Theatre. “Smokestack Arias,” about the grisly 1916 Everett Massacre, is a song cycle for soprano voice, piano and electronics with text by Horvitz’s wife, Robin Holcomb. (FULL ARTICLE: Paul de Barros, Seattle Times)
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Wayne Horvitz to premiere new work
December 28, 2011