The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical The Applause Libretto Library-Set in the turbulent South in the 1950s Memphis is the story of Huey Calhoun a white radio DJ whose love of good music transcends race lines and airwaves. Thanks in part to his passionate persistence ?race? music reaches the center of the radio dial quickly exploding throughout mainstream America. But when Huey falls for a beautiful black singer he has set on the path to stardom whether the world is really ready for this music and their love is put to the test.

Einstein on the Beach was a seminal work of opera that broke all the rules being non-linear non-narrative episodic dreamlike and five hours long. A collaborative creation between Glass and theatrical director Robert Wilson it was described by one critic as ‘a mixture of mathematical clarity and mystical allure’. The subject of the play is the life of Albert Einstein. The subject of this book is the complete libretto as well as a description ofthe creation of the work biographies discographies lists of works photographs and complete credits for the original work. For any admirer of Philip Glass Robert Wilson or modern opera this book is a necessity.Americancomposer Philip Glass is widely known as one of the most celebrated influential and prolific of the modern composers. He is frequently referred to as a minimalist though he prefers to call himself a composer of ‘music withrepetitive structures.’ His operas including the renowned Einstein On The Beach are performed across the globe and he has created work for small and large ensembles film and experimental theatre and founded his ownperforming group The Philip Glass Ensemble.

American composer Philip Glass is widely known as one of the most celebrated influential and prolific of the modern composers. He is frequently referred to as a minimalist though he prefers to call himself a composer of ‘musicwith repetitive structures.’ His operas among them the renowned Einstein On The Beach are performed across the globe and he has created work for small and large ensembles film and experimental theatre and founded his ownperforming group The Philip Glass Ensemble. The Fall of the House of Usher was given its premiere in 1988.Writer and director Arthur Yorinks has worked in opera theatre dance film and radio as well as writing thirty-fivebooks for children. His goal is to create a new theatre of sound for the 21st century. Yorinks also collaborated with Glass on his opera The Juniper Tree. Both works have been performed internationally.

Operatic interpretation of Lewis Carroll's 'Alice In Wonderland.' Libretto and melody parts.

Paul Griffiths says 'The piece is full of clever and beautiful things; the early scenes proceed almost in convulsions of orchestral brilliance within a marvellously clear and animated world whose chief references sometimes explicit are to Ravel and Stravinsky. The scene with the pig is deliciously rich in bass gruntings; that with the milkman cat mixes Marx brohters dialogue with a sophisticated recreation of low musical gags'.The Times 6 August 1985