OPERA NEWS: Hearne: Place
OPERA NEWS: Hearne: Place
BY DANIEL J. KUSHNER
“Place is exquisite, a work of genius whose premiere recording seems to arrive both at the right cultural moment and entirely too late. Hearne and Williams, with director Patricia McGregor, have created a blistering secular oratorio about race, containing bitter medicine not only for white America as a whole but for the white establishment in classical music and opera. For reasons both musical and thematic, this piece should be listened to closely.”