Most Laramie participants were in performance during this event, so I wanted to share a clip from George Lam‘s documentary opera, The Persistence of Smoke, which ran April 15-16 in Durham, directed by Theater Studies’ own Jay O’Berski. George conducted the interviews from which John Justice wrote the libretto for this piece. George also composed and conducted the music as part of his dissertation in composition at Duke. George is the former director of the Duke New Music Ensemble. He served as musical director for Duke’s 2008 production of Sweeney Todd and is an all-around swell guy. He is now co-artistic director of his own company, Rhymes with Opera, currently headquartered in Boston, MA. I look forward to hearing (literally) more from him in the years to come. Enjoy …
http://youtu.be/h6qBwUgsPQE