News at Eleven: [Maurya] Simon told [Eliane] Aberdam

she had written the libretto for Tamar for her own composer father, who refused to set it to music--he found the odd phrase lengths awkward.

But Aberdam, whose works have been premiered in Hungary, France, Israel and throughout the United States, was up for the challenge.

from The Providence Journal: URI professor teams with Pulitzer-nominated poet in opera

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