BASTA: Only God can make a tree
“Hey. Sorry to trouble you. I was wondering if I could have a word with my client.”
3 pieces since 2018 — at 1 company, most often at Algonquin Opera.
“Hey. Sorry to trouble you. I was wondering if I could have a word with my client.”
It was already nearly two o’clock in the morning, late for a work night, and Nixon Ben Mahmoud was ashamed to find himself crying real tears.
Jerold Offerman had spent the day readying the Algonquin Opera orchestra for a high-profile, high-stakes revival of Lucia, and things weren’t going well with the glass harmonica.
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