Charlie Rose

Guests: Edward Barnes RSS

1999:

1. 

   A conversation about the conflict in Kosovo

   with Edward Barnes and Tony Judt on Jun 25, 1999

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   30 min

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Edward Barnes is an American composer and musical director.

Barnes studied music composition at the Juilliard School with composers Vincent Persichetti and David Diamond and at the Dartington Hall in Great Britain with composer-conductor Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Early in his career he established himself as an opera composer, working in Boston as resident composer of Sarah Caldwell’s Opera Company of Boston and later at the Los Angeles Opera. He eventually turned towards Broadway and the world of musical theater, writing, arranging, and conducting shows for theaters in New York and around the country. A resident artist at the Ucross Foundation, the Instituto Sacatar in Brazil, and the Fundacion Valparaiso in Spain, he is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Stephen Sondheim Award. He currently resides in New York City.

Source- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Barnes_%28composer%29