Treemonisha achieves sonic unity by bridging the old and the new
, but he also wrote two operas:. While the score for the former is lost, the score for the latter was rediscovered in 1970 and given a full performance two years later; in 1976, Joplin was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize in music, andTreemonisha
Abandoned by her mother , the title character is raised by Monisha and Ned after being found in the nook of a tree – a clear nod from Joplin to Richard Wagner and his famouscreates its own special brand of mythology, and here finds an engaging blend of sounds reflecting that ethos thanks to a sparky new orchestration and arrangement of the score by Jessie Montgomery and Jannina Norpoth.
Director Weyni Mengeshi treats the romance between Treemonisha and Zodzerick with care, with their physical placement often revealing of the title character’s emotional states. When he initially approaches her with the “bag of luck,” she is awkward and scared – if intrigued – and keeps a cautious distance; later, she is quick to kiss him in the forest .
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