"Songs that one could imagine Charles Ives composing had he lived long enough to encounter rock-and-roll and beat poetry," was American Theatre Magazine's response to THEIR THOUGHT AND BACK AGAIN.  Music-Web International called it "something Hunter S. Thompson might have experienced after taking mescaline."  Hailed as "a masterpiece" by both the classical critic at the San Diego Reader and the pop critic at the Union-Tribune, a "highly original work that defies categorization" by Opera Journal, and praised for its "memorable tunes and unpretentious lyricism" by Opera News, THEIR THOUGHT is a chamber opera or song-cycle for two singers, six dancers, string quartet, and piano. Originally a collaboration with choreographer John Malashock and his dancers, the story (I call it my version of Bernstein's WONDERFUL TOWN) concerns two women who come to a place (a town) where dancers are, and after a time, they stay there. The lyrics are derived from William Burroughs-style cut-ups. The CD, featuring Roxane Carrasco and Celeste Tavera, was recorded by Peter Sprague, and I put together a series of collage-like music/videos to post the music in YouTube.  To see those videos and hear the opera, and for more information, including the libretto, a video of William Burroughs, the Los Angeles Times feature article, and the American Theatre Magazine review by Stephen Nunns, 

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