- Dan Shore
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Dan Shore (b. 1975) is an American composer and playwright from Allentown, Pennsylvania whose works include The Beautiful Bridegroom, An Embarrassing Position, Travel, Works of Mercy, and Lady Orchid.
His comic opera The Beautiful Bridegroom, based on the play "Den forvandlede Brudgom" by Ludvig Holberg, was awarded first prize in the National Opera Association's Chamber Opera Composition Competition in 2009. Written for a cast of six sopranos, it has been produced over a dozen times throughout the United States.[1] Another comic opera, An Embarrassing Position, based on a sketch by the same name by Kate Chopin, received a Big Easy Entertainment Award in 2011.[2] His most recent project is the opera Freedom Ride, which commemorates the 1961 Freedom Rides.[3] Scenes from the opera were previewed at a 2011 gala hosted by Longue Vue House and Gardens, which commissioned the opera.[4]
Shore attended the New England Conservatory, where he studied composition with Lee Hyla, Malcolm Peyton, and Scott Wheeler. In addition to spending four years as a composer and lyricist in the BMI-Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, he studied opera composition in Denmark with Andy Pape on a Fulbright grant. He received his Ph.D. in composition from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, studying playwriting with Tina Howe and composition with David Del Tredici. Former faculty at Baruch College, Emerson College, and the Boston Conservatory, Dan currently teaches at Xavier University of Louisiana.
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- ^ Coviello, Will (February 15, 2011). "Classical Arts Awards". Gambit Weekly. http://www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/classical-arts-awards/Content?oid=1571463. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
- ^ Andrews, Travis (October 17, 2011). "Short-run Opera showcases Civil Rights Movement activists". Louisiana Weekly. http://www.louisianaweekly.com/short-run-opera-showcases-civil-rights-movement-activists/. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
- ^ Waddington, Chris (October 15, 2011). "Xavier prof pens opera set in New Orleans during Civil Rights struggles". New Orleans Times-Picayune. http://www.nola.com/arts/index.ssf/2011/10/xavier_prof_pens_opera_set_in.html. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
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