Salzman at the Cell Theater in 2011 for the Center for Contemporary Opera atelier of his opera, Big Jim and the Small-Time Investors.
Born
(1933-09-08)September 8, 1933
New York City, U.S.
Died
November 12, 2017(2017-11-12) (aged 84)
New York City, U.S.
Education
Columbia University (BA) Princeton University (MFA)
Occupation(s)
Composer, producer, author, music critic
Years active
1958–2017
Eric Salzman (September 8, 1933 – November 12, 2017) was an American composer, scholar, author, impresario, music critic, and record producer. He is known for advancing the concept of "New Music Theater" (in his compositions and his large body of writing) as an independent art form differing in scope, both economically and aesthetically, from grand opera and contemporary popular musicals.[1] He co-founded the American Music Theater Festival and was, at the time of his death in 2017, Composer-in-Residence at the Center for Contemporary Opera.[2]
Salzman's one true opera, Big Jim and the Small-Time Investors (written and revised between 1985 and 2017), was developed in workshops at CCO in 2010 and 2014. It received its world-premiere production at Symphony Space in 2018, five months after his death, praised by Opera News as "truly a fine piece of post-modern creative work."[3] Performers of his works include the New York Philharmonic, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Brooklyn Philharmonic; conductors Pierre Boulez, Stanisław Skrowaczewski, Dennis Russell Davies and Lukas Foss; ensembles Western Wind and Kronos Quartet; soloists Philip Langridge, Mary Thomas, Elise Ross, Stanley Silverman, Alan Titus, Rinde Eckert, Igor Kipnis, Paul Zukofsky, Theo Bleckmann, Thomas Young; actors Stacy Keach, John O'Hurley and Paul Hecht.
^"Eric Salzman obituary, November 18, 2017". Legacy.com/New York Times. 18 November 2017. Retrieved November 24, 2017.
^Cite error: The named reference CCO was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^McKinnon, Arlo (April 9, 2018). "Big Jim and the Small-Time Investors" Opera News July 2018 — Vol. 82, No. 12
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