Opera, music and film
Ashoka's Dream
Opera Libretto
- Paperback
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The published libretto of Ashoka’s Dream, the opera by Peter Lieberson on the Emperor Ashoka, with words by Douglas Penick. Santa Fe Opera and Associated Music Publishers, 1997 (paperback libretto, not the score).
Also by Douglas J. Penick
King Gesar
Librettist / text
Peter Lieberson's King Gesar on Sony Classical, with Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax and Peter Serkin.
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On the Seawall
An essay on Frank Rosenblatt, an essay on Froberger, and a poem, in Ron Slate's On the Seawall.
Read: Frank Rosenblatt in Passing: The Rebirth of the Mimetic Impulse
Winter Light
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