Afterword, an Opera

George Lewis’s article Afterword, an Opera recently appeared in the Opera Quarterly.

“The challenge for the creative team—me as composer, and Sean Griffin and Catherine Sullivan as co-directors—was to create an opera around a collective noted for its diversity of approaches to artmaking, while avoiding strategies of recreation, periodization, and simplistic depiction. The intent was to explore motivations and implications of historical action in ways that reaffirm the multiple, overlapping, and fundamentally human cultural perspectives and contestations that mark not only the AACM but also any human social formation.”

Read more here.