Opera, music and film
King Gesar
Peter Lieberson; libretto by Douglas Penick
- CD
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King Gesar, Peter Lieberson’s work for narrator and chamber ensemble, with a text by Douglas Penick drawn from the Gesar epic. Sony Classical recording with Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, Peter Serkin and Omar Ebrahim, narrator.
Also by Douglas J. Penick
Ashoka's Dream
Librettist
The libretto of Peter Lieberson's opera on the Emperor Ashoka, premiered at the Santa Fe Opera.
In Tricycle
His essays in Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, on old age, pain, memory and the sages; the list follows the magazine.
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
Five essays on old age as its own time of life, told through Titian, Beethoven, Cézanne and others.