![]() Lawrence Taitte, The Dallas Morning News ![]() ![]() It’s definitely a show worth seeing and seeing again.…the best theatrical Christmas surprise in town.” Jones, who as dean put Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music on the musical map in the 1970s, has crafted a compact score that constantly reworks the memorable melody symbolizing the love between the child and his grown-up, but still childlike, friend.… a fine work, solidly done. “ A Christmas Memory seems more like a valentine-fragile and constructed of antique lace-than a Christmas card…The opera’s storyline is uneventful compared with the blood-and-thunder plots of so many operas…but it breathes the nostalgic air of innocence lost forever.The opera was written as a labor of love by the composer, who was deeply moved when he first read the story and who knew he would one day set this story to music. ![]() This program is often rebroadcast for the holiday season. It was sensitively adapted for television by Eleanor Perry, and the resulting screenplay, directed by Frank Perry and starring Geraldine Page, was broadcast by ABC Television in December, 1966, winning the Peabody Award for the best program of the year as well as many other awards. Instrumentation: *2,*2,*2,*2/2,2,1,1/T,1P,Hp/StgsĪ Christmas Memory is one of Truman Capote’s most famous and beloved stories, a tender, delicate tale of great lyric beauty. ![]()
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