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'Lafayette' World Premiere One-Act Celebrates Return of Marquis' Revolutionary Ship, 'L'Hermoine'
The world premiere of 'Lafayette' this month comes just in time to celebrate the return of the historic vessel that ferried the young, French general Marquis de Lafayette across the Atlantic Ocean during the American Revolution. As you educated Classicalites know, Lafayette played an integral role in coercing his Gallic brethren to support the patriot cause. EXCLUSIVE: Robert Sirota on 'Spindrift' with Sandbox Percussion, Concerts in Park Slope and Why He's Not Going on Nadia's 'Meet The Composer' Podcast
With both European bona fides (that Watson fellowship with Nadia Boulanger in Paris) and studies with composers that can sound European (those PhD lessons with Leon Kirchner at Harvard), American composer Robert Sirota remains precisely that: a quintessentially American composer. In his mature works, thorny chromaticism often plays nicely within rounded, deliberate forms. And there's always a true economy of means -- no motive where none intended. European-inspired, maybe, but his is a curious blend, no doubt informed by Sirota's many academic appointments up and down America's eastern seaboard (NYU, BU, Peabody, Manhattan School of Music). Not that Robert Sirota is an ivory tower, himself. Case in point: Sirota's brand new, beguiling work for Sandbox Percussion, Spindrift.
