DAVID T. LITTLE: AM I BORN
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street, NOVUS NY
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GRAMMY® CONSIDERATION
Best Contemporary Classical Composition
David T. Little
Best Engineered Album, Classical
Marlan Barry, Andrew Mckenna Lee & Doron Schächter, engineers; Joe Lambert, mastering engineer
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A monumental work from one of America's most dynamic composer/librettist teams, David T. Little and Royce Vavrek's Am I Born takes the listener on a journey through an impermanent Brooklyn. Set across centuries in the neighborhood plowed under to build the Brooklyn Bridge, Am I Born uses echoes of the past to explore what it means to live through rapidly changing times.
DAVID T. LITTLE
David T. Little is “one of the most imaginative young composers” on the scene (The New Yorker), with “a knack for overturning musical conventions” (The New York Times). His operas Dog Days, JFK, and Vinkensport (librettos by Royce Vavrek), and Soldier Songs have been widely acclaimed, “prov[ing] beyond any doubt that opera has both a relevant present and a bright future” (The New York Times).
ROYCE VAVREK
Royce Vavrek is a Canada-born, Brooklyn-based librettist and lyricist who has been called “the indie Hofmannsthal” (The New Yorker) a “Metastasio of the downtown opera scene” (The Washington Post), “an exemplary creator of operatic prose” (The New York Times), and “one of the most celebrated and sought after librettists in the world” (CBC Radio). His opera “Angel’s Bone” with composer Du Yun was awarded the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Music.
