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01600acm a2200289 i 4500 001 255B6F30A36B11E3A3DF8D90DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140304010113 008 130716t20122012nyuzza zxx d 035 $a (OCoLC)864336633 040 $a TDF $b eng $e rda $c TDF $d OCLCO $d FMZ $d KLM $d COO $d SILO 046 $k 20120813 048 $a oa 100 1 $a Rouse, Christopher, $d 1949- $e composer. 245 10 $a Prospero's rooms : $b for orchestra / $c Christopher Rouse. 264 1 $a New York : $b Hendon Music : $c [2012] 300 $a 1 score (55 pages) ; $c 36 cm 306 $a 000800 500 $a "In the days when I would have still contemplated composing an opera, my preferred source was Edgar Allan Poe's Masque of the Red Death. A marvelous story full of both symbolism and terror, it is only five pages long and would thus require padding instead of the usual brutal cutting of the story. I had contemplated some sort of melding of the Poe story with Leonid Andreyev's symbolist play The Black Maskers. However, I shall not be composing an opera, and so I decided to redirect my ideas into what might be considered an overture to an unwritten opera"--Program note from composer's website. 546 $b Staff notation. 500 $a Duration: about 8 min. 650 0 $a Orchestral music $v Scores. 600 10 $a Poe, Edgar Allan, $d 1809-1849 $v Songs and music. 700 1 $i Based on (work): $a Poe, Edgar Allan, $d 1809-1849. $t Masque of the red death. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231020021937.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=255B6F30A36B11E3A3DF8D90DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search