Bernard Chasan responding to Jeff Dunn:

>> There was a mini-revival of melodramas in the 1990s.  I fondly
>> recall Rosetti's "Goblin Market," masterfully set by Aaron Jay Kernis,
>> and performed by the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.  ...
>
> Frederic Rzewski contributed to this mini- revival as well with a
> striking setting of Oscar Wilde's De Profundis for piano and narrator.

A masterpiece indeed! Although M le Pedant points out that it is not for
piano *and* narrator, but for speaking pianist.

deryk barker
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