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Website. www .charleswuorinen .com /operas /haroun-and-the-sea-of-stories /. Haroun and the Sea of Stories is an opera in two acts by American composer Charles Wuorinen, based on the children's novel of the same name by Salman Rushdie, with a libretto by James Fenton. It was premiered at the New York City Opera in 2004.
PR6068.U757 H37 1990. Followed by. Luka and the Fire of Life. Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a 1990 children's novel [1] by Salman Rushdie. It is Rushdie's fifth major publication and followed The Satanic Verses (1988). It is a phantasmagorical story that begins in a city so miserable and ruinous that it has forgotten its name.
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Wuorinen wrote more than 270 pieces, including the operas Haroun and the Sea of Stories and Brokeback Mountain. He has been described as totally committed to twelve-tone composition, with Schoenberg, late Stravinsky, and Babbitt as primary influences. In later years, he called the term serialism "almost without meaning".
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Haroun and the Sea of Stories – an opera with libretto by James Fenton, based on the novel by Salman Rushdie 1997–2001; Andante Espressivo – 2001, premiered by cellist Fred Sherry and Wuorinen, piano; Alap, a Prelude to Contrapunctus IX of the Art of Fugue – 2001, premiered by the Brentano String Quartet
M. The Magic Toyshop. The Midnight Library. Midnight's Children. A Monster Calls. My Dad's a Birdman.