In Sunday’s (3/25) Philadelphia Inquirer, David Patrick Stearns writes, “The antique and the exotic find each other, like long-lost friends, as audience members take their seats for Song From the Uproar. A haunting, prerecorded vocalize—the soprano voice gently rising and falling—repeats itself hypnotically against the sepia ambience of a 78 r.p.m. record, a prelude to the story of a Swiss adventuress who broke with Victorian conventions to heed the siren call of North Africa. If there’s such a thing as typical Missy Mazzoli, it’s placing the familiar and the unusual cheek-by-jowl. The opera’s recent sold-out run at the Manhattan new-music venue the Kitchen is yet another event in a breakout year for Mazzoli, who heeded a similarly unlikely call, in her native Lansdale, to become a composer. … Currently, the Kronos Quartet is touring with her Harp and Altar, the Albany Symphony Orchestra (where she is composer in residence) is premiering her newest orchestral work this spring, and she has two Carnegie Hall commissions.”
Posted March 27, 2012
