7/4/2023 0 Comments Rosen the classical style![]() ![]() In the meantime, I had become rather close with Charles, and I spent a lot of time playing lessons for him. “And I said I’d always had this dream, as a joke mostly, of doing an opera based on Charles Rosen’s The Classical Style. Morris asked if Denk had any ideas for Ojai’s annual theatrical evening. It kept getting more serious in my mind as time went by.” Then he had his first meeting with Tom Morris, artistic director of the Ojai Festival. ![]() “‘Who would be in The Classical Style by Charles Rosen, the opera?’ And I sent it around to some friends for yuks. ![]() “I suddenly got this idea, and I wrote down a cast of characters for it, just as a joke for myself,” says Denk. In Denk’s telling, he came up with the idea after dinner at the house of his neighbors-cellist Fred Sherry and his wife, Carol Archer, who knew Charles Rosen well. ![]()
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