{"id":5483,"date":"2015-09-05T10:27:44","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T14:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foetus.org\/content\/?p=5483"},"modified":"2015-09-05T10:27:44","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T14:27:44","slug":"jg-thirlwell-pens-new-composition-for-burroughs-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/news\/jg-thirlwell-pens-new-composition-for-burroughs-opera\/","title":{"rendered":"JG Thirlwell pens new composition for Burroughs opera"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"https:\/\/foetus.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/10.16_experiments_in_opera_temp_image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5482\" alt=\"10.16_experiments_in_opera_temp_image\" src=\"https:\/\/foetus.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/10.16_experiments_in_opera_temp_image-231x300.jpg\" width=\"248\" height=\"323\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamesilgenfritz.com\/\"><strong>James Ilgenfritz<\/strong><\/a> has commissioned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\"><strong>JG Thirlwell<\/strong> <\/a>to compose a composition for an opera with the text based on <strong>William S. Burroughs<\/strong> cut ups of <em>Clockwork Orange<\/em> author <strong>Anthony Burgess<\/strong>. The piece will form part of a larger opera entitled <em><a href=\"https:\/\/centerforthehumanities.org\/page\/william-s-burroughs-travel-agency-fire\">The Travel Agency is on Fire<\/a><\/em>, drawn from a book of Burroughs cut-up experiments, where he re-appropriates everyone from William Shakespeare and Arthur Rimbaud to William Wordsworth and James Joyce. The other composers contributing to the opera include <strong><a href=\"https:\/www.jasoncadymusic.com\/\">Jason Cady<\/a>, Natacha Diels, Anne Guthrie, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamesilgenfritz.com\/\">James Ilgenfritz<\/a>, Travis Just, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lukasligeti.com\/\">Lukas Ligeti<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlielooker.com\/\">Charlie Looker<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elliottsharp.com\/\">Elliott Sharp<\/a>, Aaron Siegel<\/strong> and <strong>Katie Young.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/div>\n<div>The opera will premiere on October 16 2015 at <strong>John Zorn<\/strong>&#8216;s club <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestonenyc.com\/\"><strong>The Stone<\/strong><\/a> in NYC as part of James Ilgenfrtiz&#8217;s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/755530004593860\/\"> residency<\/a>.\u00a0It will be performed by the <strong>Anagram Ensemble<\/strong>, consisting of\u00a0 <strong>Megan Schubert, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/amirtha.kidambi\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/user.php?id=10800055\">Amirtha Kidambi<\/a>, Nick Hallett <\/strong>and<strong>\u00a0 <a id=\"js_1w\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/michael.d.jones.568\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/user.php?id=557893689&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A755530004593860%7D\">Michael Douglas Jones<\/a> <\/strong>(voices) <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/paulinekimharris\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/user.php?id=1419663451&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A755530004593860%7D\">PK Harris <\/a><\/strong>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sarah.bernstein.94\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/user.php?id=1440368824&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A755530004593860%7D\"><strong>Sarah Bernstein<\/strong> <\/a>(violins), <strong>James Moore<\/strong> (guitar), <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jonathan.singer.12\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/user.php?id=20801680&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A755530004593860%7D\">Jonathan Singer <\/a><\/strong>(percussion), <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/brian.chase.39\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/user.php?id=100002550173416&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A755530004593860%7D\">Brian Chase<\/a><\/strong> (drums), <strong>James Ilgenfritz<\/strong> (basses) and<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nathan.koci\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/user.php?id=624971920&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A755530004593860%7D\">Nathan Koci <\/a><\/strong>(conductor)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Ilgenfritz has commissioned JG Thirlwell to compose a composition for an opera with the text based on William S. Burroughs cut ups of Clockwork Orange author Anthony Burgess. The piece will form part of a larger opera entitled The Travel Agency is on Fire, drawn from a book of Burroughs cut-up experiments, where he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[18],"tags":[38,77,83,106,257,429,618,628,684,719,803,872,941,964,1350,1406],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}