James Drew

This very original composer studied with Wallingford Riegger and Edgard Varése. He offers trained at Northwestern College or university, Yale College or university, UCLA, Cal Condition, and other organizations, and also shows privately. He offers performed with and co-founded many musical organizations: the Crossfire Objective Orchestra in the past due ’60s in New Haven (radical shows frequently behind barbed cable), the Secret Journeying Cabaret, the American Music Theatre in CA, the Blast Opera Theatre and has carried out concerts and arts education use the Gray Wolf Task. His works consist of: Survivors in Pale Light a theatre piece lately taped for PBS-TV using the Blast Opera players both performing and performing (he identifies the proper execution as an opera “ostrannie” (Russian term meaning laid uncovered, or everything subjected, for instance, the stars are performing and at exactly the same time not really “performing”)); Hypothetical Constructions, Books I and II, Cantalobosolo (1995) a monodrama for contrabassist/vocalist/acting professional, Dances from the Tunnel Saints (1995) for just two pianos and percussion, and Natural powder Songs of the girl Magicians (1996) staged inside a ritualistic group for singer-actor, percussion, and droning strings.