Mark Alburger, long-time editor/publisher of "20th Century Music" (now
upgraded to 21st Century), is about to make music news, instead of
reporting it.

His opera, "Henry Miller in Brooklyn," premieres in San Francisco's Potrero
Hill Neighborhood House Theater, on May 4, for a run through May 20 (and
that's a longer opening run than most new operas get).

Alburger wrote the music, the libretto is by Mel Clay, Harriet March Page
is the stage director.

The authors' description of the work:

   In the Roaring 20's -- before Paris, before "Tropic of Cancer,"
   before fame -- struggling novelist Henry Miller shared a bed in a
   Brooklyn basement flat with his volatile wife June, an erotic dancer,
   and her lover Jeanne, a painter.  These were the crazy bohemian days
   and nights that shaped a literary icon...  a new-music drama about
   the coming-of-age of the writer who broke all the taboos.

The cast: Tisha C.  Page as JUNE, Rick Richetta as HENRY, Elaine Foley
Romanelli as Jeanne Peterson.  The orchestration is for flute, soprano
saxophone, alto saxophone, trumpet and piano.

For information: www.goathall.org,

Janos Gereben/SF, CA
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