Category: Liverman, Will

He Left the Prejudice of America. But His Music Came Home.

The centennial of Robert Owens, a composer who worked abroad and assimilated into German culture, is being celebrated with a festival in Nebraska.
Review: ‘X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X’ at the Met

“X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X,” from 1986, receives its grandest treatment yet, in a production expected to play on opera stages from coast to coast.
In Chicago, ‘Opera Can Be Hip-Hop, and Hip-Hop Can Be Opera’

The New York Times – Music:
Will Liverman and DJ King Rico’s “The Factotum,” at Lyric Opera of Chicago, is a gloss on “The Barber of Seville” set in a South Side barbershop.
In Chicago, ‘Opera Can Be Hip-Hop, and Hip-Hop Can Be Opera’

The New York Times – Music:
Will Liverman and DJ King Rico’s “The Factotum,” at Lyric Opera of Chicago, is a gloss on “The Barber of Seville” set in a South Side barbershop.
Review: Songs That Defy the ‘Quotidian Nature of Evil’

The New York Times – Music:
The composer Shawn Okpebholo has created a song cycle that imagines the inner lives of fugitives from American slavery.

He Left the Prejudice of America. But His Music Came Home.