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Two Radio Opera Releases: Wise Blood & The Making of Americans

Wise Blood (2020)

Anthony Gatto

Opera based on the novel by Flannery O’Connor, music and libretto by Anthony Gatto.

“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it.”

The young shattered war veteran Hazel Motes shouts these words from the hood of his car in Wise Blood. America as a

Opera based on the novel by Flannery O’Connor, music and libretto by Anthony Gatto.

“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it.”

The young shattered war veteran Hazel Motes shouts these words from the hood of his car in Wise Blood. America as a "nation of immigrants" shares his sermon as its origin story—or otherwise had it forced on them along the way. Haze may as well also be addressing: the reckoning of America's racist history, its terrorism, voter suppression and disenfranchisement, the genocide of America’s indigenous people, and more recently, climate change, pandemic change, Oxycontin, the militarization of police, the White House flouting the rule of law... “Where you come from is gone” sermonizes on the ways of lost nations and their lost mythologies, and also, the future lost innocence of every child who bears this legacy of being an American.”– Anthony Gatto

Hazel Motes: Martin Bakari Asa Hawks: Brian Major Sabbath Lily Hawks: Holly Hansen Narrator, Mrs. Flood, Passenger: Gelsey Bell Onnie Jay Holy: David Echelard Enoch Emery: Jason Paul Andrews Solace Layfield, Hawker: Michael Sommers Porter, Policeman: Russell Rathbun

Scenes 1 & 12: Geoffrey Landman, soprano saxophone Kristen McKeon, alto saxophone Erin Rogers, tenor saxophone Zach Herchen, baritone saxophone Will Lang, trombones James Rogers, euphonium & tuba

Scenes 2 through 11: The Adam Meckler Orchestra David Bloom, conductor

Live Engineer: Reid Kruger Mixed by: Christopher Botta and Anthony Gatto Mastered by: Christopher Botta

© 1949 by Flannery O'Connor; copyright renewed 1976 by Regina Cline O'Connor. Permission granted by the Mary Flannery O'Connor Charitable Trust. All rights reserved.

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The Making of Americans (2020)

Anthony Gatto

an opera adapting the novel by Gertrude Stein, music and libretto by Anthony Gatto

PERSONNEL: Martha Hersland as a Child: Anna Dagmar, soprano Martha Hersland: Elizabeth Munn, soprano Julia Dehning: Pamela Stein, soprano Julia Dehning’s Mother: Rachel Calloway, soprano David Hersland: David Echelard, countertenor Alfred Herlsand: Michael Mueller,

an opera adapting the novel by Gertrude Stein, music and libretto by Anthony Gatto

PERSONNEL: Martha Hersland as a Child: Anna Dagmar, soprano Martha Hersland: Elizabeth Munn, soprano Julia Dehning: Pamela Stein, soprano Julia Dehning’s Mother: Rachel Calloway, soprano David Hersland: David Echelard, countertenor Alfred Herlsand: Michael Mueller, tenor Old Man: Bradley Greenwald, baritone JACK Quartet, Zeitgeist Ensemble, David Pinkard, conductor

Produced and edited by Anthony Gatto, based on 2019 revisions to the score. Mixed by Christopher Botta and Anthony Gatto. Mastered by Christopher Botta

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Lucky Dreams

Anthony Gatto (composer)

for piano, two percussion, bass clarinet

commissioned by Zeitgeist Ensemble

Innova Recordings

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