Eric W. Sawyer
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Eric W. Sawyer is an American orchestral composer, pianist and professor of music at Amherst College. He has studied as an undergraduate at Harvard College, where he was selected as a Harvard Junior F
Our American Cousin, 2008
William Hite as Ned Spofford and Keith Phares as Newton Arvin in a scene from The Scarlet Professor by Eric Sawyer and Harley Erdman in 2017
Libretto
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A libretto is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical. The term libretto is also sometimes used to refer to the sto
Eric W. Sawyer
…Ravinia Festival competition for Lincoln-themed chamber works to be performed as part of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial celebration in 2009. Along with librettist and University of California, Berkeley, English lecturer John Shoptaw, Sawyer has composed an opera based upon a play set in Ford's Theatre the night…
Cover of a 1921 libretto for Giordano's Andrea Chénier
The composer of Cavalleria rusticana, Pietro Mascagni, flanked by his librettists, Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci
Pages from an 1859 libretto for Ernani, with the original Italian lyrics, English translation and musical notation for one of the arias
Henry Purcell (1659–1695), whose operas were written to English libretti