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Six Characters Search for a House Band in Café Buffé
posted on September 15th, 2009 by Alan Lockwood
Composer and Newband co-director Dean Drummond.
For the world premiere of Café Buffé (Sept. 10), Newband and conductor Paul Hostetter presented composer Dean Drummond’s one-act opera in a concert reading. The immediate issue was, with a stage full of performers and no staging, would it be a case of a competition in search of a playing field—a café dinner, as it were, awaiting its sauce? The delicious part became how, aside from the musical pleasures Drummond presents in the piece, the energetic reading stirred images of what may hit the stage one day, given the means and a sympathetic director to flesh out the vision. Read more »
