Daughter of the Red Czar (2012). Lisa Scola-Prosek #churchillinmoscow

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Joshua Kosman reviews a new opera in San Fransisco about Winston Churchill's meeting with Josef Stalin during World War 2:

That summit - a surprising turning point in the military struggle against the Third Reich - forms the basis of "Daughter of the Red Tzar," an engagingly brisk and overstuffed one-act opera that had its world premiere over the weekend at Thick House Theater in Potrero Hill.

Jeff Dunn mostly doesn't like the music except for this:

Exceptionally, there is one attractive toasting song either composed or adapted by Scola-Prosek, “Come Raise Your Glass, Tovarich,” which features, in a Russian folk idiom, some interesting harmonic changes.

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aworks listening log:

• Serenado. Lou Harrison - John Schneider
• Pastoral Drone for Organ. George Crumb 
• Banteay Srey 1991. Carl Stone

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• Music For Violin With Various Instruments-European, Asian & African. Lou Harrison - David Abel
• Grantchester. Charles Ives - Mary Ann Hart
• Monk in the Kitchen. Michael Daugherty - Emanuele Arciuli
• Ascent. Joan Tower
• A Valentine Out of Season. John Cage - Jeannie Kerstein

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