Fairhaven Lecture – Where the Music Comes From: The Vocal Music of Wisconsin Composer Lee Hoiby
Born in Madison, Wisconsin in 1926, composer and pianist Lee Hoiby is best known for his vocal works. A composition student of Gian Carlo Menotti, Hoiby has been described as a “modern Romantic” who rejected 20th-century compositional trends such as atonality and minimalism, instead favoring lyrical, expressive, tonal writing. Some of his most well-known operas ... Read more
